2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 125 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 21,000 people in Michigan and in the states the festival tours.

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings (on behalf of Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival)
Southfield, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional development program at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival that provides training to emerging, pre-professional ensembles.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$75,000
To support the creation, presentation, national radio broadcast, and residency activities featuring new works by Hannibal Lokumbe and Jonathan Holland.

Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grand Rapids, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of American artist Ellsworth Kelly's (b. 1923) plant lithographs. Although known for his large scale two- and three-dimensional canvases of primary colors and minimal shapes, the exhibition will present a closer view of his more intimate renderings of plant life.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support a week-long Beethoven festival. The Grand Rapids Symphony, in collaboration with the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, will present orchestral, chamber, and recital concerts under the artistic direction of music director David Lockington.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$7,000
To support a day of readings and workshops with Pearl Cleage as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and residents in downtown Detroit.

Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$42,000
To support a series of statewide and regional conferences focusing on arts management, community development, and leadership initiatives. MACAA provides direct services to its constituents that represent more than 3,000 arts and cultural organizations in Michigan's 83 counties.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$65,000
To support planning and fabrication of a Native American basketry exhibition. Carriers of Culture: Contemporary Native Basket Traditions will focus on contemporary Native American basketry traditions from Hawaii and North America at the turn of the century.

O'Brien, Dorene
West Bloomfield, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$60,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony, a unique ensemble of professional African-American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country.

University Cultural Center Association (on behalf of Art on the Move)
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$21,000
To support temporary public art installations and related programming. The project will invite established artists and emerging, college-level artists to create installations in several locations including the Detroit Institute of Arts.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support a multi part dance project Pop Collaborations. The project will feature residencies by Merce Cunningham Dance Company and by Lyon Opera Ballet choreographer Phillipe Decoufl.

Walk & Squawk Performance Project
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the creation of a new theater piece by U.S. and South African artists during successive residencies in KwaZulu-Natal and Detroit. The Walking Project will look at the ways in which geography and patterns of movement affect our perceptions and lives.

Michigan Total Dollars Awarded: $397,500
Michigan Total Grants Awarded: 13

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