2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

MICHIGAN

Cable Communications
Detroit, MI
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support SCOOP, a program that will provide hands-on instruction in video production for high school students in after-school and summer settings. Divided into three groups based on their skill level, students will write, produce, direct, and edit their own programs using industry-standard equipment with instruction from media professionals.

Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support a condition assessment survey and a treatment and maintenance recommendations report for the city's outdoor art collection. Due to citywide budget cuts, the society has recently inherited responsibility for the city's collection of public art from the Department of Parks and Recreation.

InsideOut Literary Arts Projects, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a writers-in-residence project. Creative writing workshops will be provided to Detroit Public School students in the third through 12th grades. These weekly workshops by poets and fiction writers will be held in three classes per school.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a school-based and community-based education program. Activities will include school residencies by musicians and composers, string coaching by professional musicians, and concert and community-based programs.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. Funding for the program will also support research, documentation, and public presentations, including an exhibition and publication.

Michigan State University (consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium project, the 2004 Great Lakes Folk Festival. In collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the festival will provide a sampling of the best traditional artists around the country and the world.

Michigan Youth Arts Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. The project will feature educational clinics, workshops, master classes, rehearsals, and performances and exhibitions of youth work.

State of Michigan, DHAL, Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (consortium)
Lansing, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support folk arts education activities in Michigan and nationwide. The consortium project will update and distribute, in printed and online versions, Folk Arts in Education: A Resource Handbook , and the 1979 FOLKPATTERNS curriculum guide.

State of Michigan,DHAL, Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
$676,550
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

MICHIGAN total grants: 9
MICHIGAN total dollars: $878,550

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