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DIA Wants to See Photo of You with Farmington Area Inside|Out Artwork

Submit a photo for a chance to win a one-year membership to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Have you been inspired by one of the art pieces installed around downtown Farmington or in Farmington Hills?

How about reenacting a scene from your favorite piece for a chance to win a one-year membership to the Detroit Institute of Arts?

That's what organizers are looking for in their Inside|Out Photo Contest.

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To enter, snap a photo of yourself, your friends, your family members or anyone else with one of the Inside|Out reproductions on display and email it to insideout@dia.org. Include your name and the title of the photo in your email.

Photos will be judged on their creativity in connecting with the subject matter of the artwork. Entrants are encouraged to reenact a scene from the Inside|Out work they include in their photo.

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The deadline is June 22.

(If you've got a photo to enter, you also can add it to this story, or our Pics & Clips gallery, so your friends and neighbors can see, too.)

Farmington and Farmington Hills are among the 16 Michigan communities selected to host , which runs through June.

Some of the 14 pieces – seven in each community – hang on the sides of buildings, while others are freestanding.

These works are on display in Farmington Hills:

  • "The Wilkinson Family" by Francis Wheatley - 
  • "Interior of St. Peter's, Rome" by Giovanni Paolo Panini -  Entrance A
  • "Allegory of Hope" by Alessandro Turchi -  main entrance
  • "Solitude" by Jean-Léon Gérôme -  in 
  • "A Woman" by Amedeo Modigliani - Stables Art Studio in Heritage Park
  • "The Communicant" by Gari Melchers - 
  • "Seascape: Sunset" by Martin Johnson Heade -  in 

These works are on display in downtown Farmington:

  • “Syria by the Sea” by Frederic Edwin Church at 
  • “Sir William Brereton, 1579,” artist unknown, at 
  • “Girl and Laurel” by Winslow Homer in the  Park
  • “A Day in June” by George Wesley Bellows at the 
  • “Annunciatory Angel” by Fra Angelico at 
  • “Madame Paul Poirson” by John Singer Sargent at 
  • “Asafo Flag,” textile by an African artist at 

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