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FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

MICHIGAN

ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services)
Dearborn, MI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the exhibition Investigating Freedom: Voices of the Arab American Diaspora, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore themes of freedom, exile and personal identity withing Arab-American artistic forms.

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 125 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 17,000 people in Michigan and other states where the festival tours.

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings (on behalf of Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival)
Southfield, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional development program at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival that will provide training to emerging, pre-professional ensembles. The program will include coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Power and Parody: The European Through African Eyes, 1500-Present, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine and document 500 years of cultural and political interaction between Africans and Europeans.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Detroit, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the consortium project Community Arts Partners. Several presenting series and an educational program will be established at the new Max M. Fisher Music Center, in consortium with the University Cultural Center Association.

Kasischke, Laura K.
Chelsea, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.  

Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support a series of statewide and regional conferences focusing on arts management, community development, and leadership initiatives. Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA) provides direct services to nearly 3,000 arts and cultural organizations located in Michigan's 83 counties.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Margaret Garner, a newly commissioned American opera by composer Richard Danielpour and librettist Toni Morrison. The three-act opera is based on the true story of a fugitive slave woman's quest for freedom.

Michigan State University (on behalf of Michigan State Museum)
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the 2005 Great Lake Folk Festival. The festival will showcase the traditional cultural treasures of the Upper Midwest and provide a sampling of the best of traditional artists from around the country and the world.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
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. The Sphinx Symphony will perform two concerts at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, each featuring young soloists.

University Cultural Center Association
Detroit, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Detroit Festival of the Arts. The annual three-day multidisciplinary, international arts celebration held in downtown Detroit provides free music, dance, and theater performances, and includes public art and literary events.

MICHIGAN total grants: 11
MICHIGAN total dollars: $345,000


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