2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MICHIGAN

Detroit

City of Detroit (aka Cultural Affairs Department)
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$10,000
To support the CityArts Grant Program. The project will support small and medium-sized cultural organizations that offer arts activities in a variety of media for audiences of all ages in community based venues.

Detroit Institute of Arts (on behalf of El Arte Alliance)
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support school-based arts learning. The program will provide multicultural, interdisciplinary art experiences developed and administered by collaborating teachers and artists that teach curriculum based arts in the classroom.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall) (consortium)
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$75,000
To support workshops and performances during the National Association of Negro Musicians' (NANM) 2004 convention. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and NANM will host the six-day national convention and present youth sessions, panel discussions, a scholarship competition, and concerts of jazz, gospel, choral and orchestral music.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the Ensemble Training Program. Through this program, students will receive ongoing instruction through the creation and performance of an original play and original music.

East Lansing

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support research, documentation and public presentations of the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship and Michigan Heritage Awards programs. Activities will include a publication documenting the Heritage Awards program and small exhibits about both programs.

Hancock

Pine Mountain Music Festival, Inc. (aka PMMF)
Hancock, MI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support performances of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and a tour of opera scenes by the Pine Mountain Music Festival Young Artists. In 2003 the Young Artists will tour Highlights of the Great Operas to three remote and underserved cities in the Upper Peninsula: Iron Mountain, Marquette and Calumet.

Kalamazoo

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$27,500
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 90 classical and jazz concerts, master classes, lectures and public education programs throughout western Michigan will take place during two weeks in spring 2004.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (consortium)
Kalamazoo, MI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the Orchestra's school-based and community-based education program. Activities will include school-based residencies by musicians and composers, string coaching by professional musicians, and concert and community-based programs.

Lansing

State of Michigan, Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$666,500
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Saugatuck

Waterfront Festival
Saugatuck, MI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$7,500
To support the Waterfront Film Festival. More than 6,000 people will attend 60 screenings of independent films.

Southfield

Chaldean American Ladies of Charity
Southfield, MI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$5,000
To support Restoring Our History Program. Designed to increase public awareness and appreciation of Chaldean cultural traditions, teen-aged youth will participate in summer workshops in painting, history and visual arts activities at the Chaldean Cultural Center.

Ypsilanti

High Scope Educational Research Foundation
Ypsilanti, MI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$64,000
To support the Supporting Young Artists program. Through this professional development training program, the number of early childhood practitioners who are skilled in developing visual arts programs for preschool children will be expanded.

Michigan Total Dollars Awarded: $951,500
Michigan Total Grants Awarded : 12

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