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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 100 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 11,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the British aerial performance troupe THE DREAM ENGINE.

ArtServe Michigan, Inc.
Southfield, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of workshops focused on arts leadership and management for Michigan arts and cultural organizations. The series of regional and statewide seminars, workshops, and individual learning experiences will be conducted by arts administration professionals, including John McCrann and Merianne Liteman.

Arvin, Nicholas
Clio, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Brazeal Dennard Chorale
Detroit, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the second annual Brazeal Dennard Chorale Spiritual Festival. Plans include performances, workshops, and a choral competition for high school, college, church, and community choruses.

Dean, Margaret L.
Ann Arbor, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
St. Clair Shores, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Detroit International Jazz Festival. During a four-day period, jazz performances presented on six different concert stages will focus on music known as Motown and "Philly Soul."

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (aka Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
Detroit, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Eight Days in June Festival. The festival will include orchestral, chamber, and jazz performances.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Music Festival. Plans include 19 concerts representing a range of chamber music styles including classical, jazz, contemporary, and world music.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program. Emerging, pre-professional ensembles will participate in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 100 classical concerts, master classes, lectures, and public educational programs will be presented throughout southwestern Michigan.

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Figure Revealed: Contemporary American Realist Paintings and Drawings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Featuring work created from the 1970s to 2005, the exhibition will examine the contemporary American realism movement.

Lystra, Donald W.
Ann Arbor, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a revival of Margaret Garner by composer Richard Danielpour and librettist Toni Morrison. The three-act opera is based on the true story of a slave woman's quest for freedom.

Michigan State University (Consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Great Lakes Folk Festival. A collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the 2008 festival will showcase not only the traditional cultural treasures of the nation's Upper Midwest, but also a sampling of the best traditional artists from around the country and the world.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country will perform concerts in Ann Arbor and at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, featuring talented, young soloists in each of the concerts.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies as part of the Global Arts Initiative. International women artists from various cultural backgrounds will engage audiences through their residency activities.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Painting and Photography Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-74 at the Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the unique convergence of European painting and photography at this particular time and place.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $442,500

 
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