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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a compact disc recording of works by composer Paul Fetler. The three works to be included on the disc are Fetler's Violin Concerto No. 2, Contrasts, and Three Poems by Walt Whitman for Orchestra and Narrator.

Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board, Inc.
Houghton, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Generation to Generation: Connecting the Past and the Present through Folk and Traditional Arts. Local traditional artists will give classroom demonstrations to fourth- through sixth-grade students in Baraga, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties in Michigan and lead workshops in folk arts and crafts practiced in the Upper Peninsula.

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Camp Portfolio and Summer Exploratory Scholarship Program. During the two consecutive 13-day arts camps, staff, visiting artists and college-aged artist mentors will teach high school students the fundamentals of sketching and drawing, two- and three-dimensional design, and digital imaging, as well as help those who are considering careers in art and design to produce a portfolio.

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings
Southfield, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Up Close and Musical, an educational outreach program. School presentations by the ensemble will take place in seven elementary schools in Pontiac, Inkster, and Detroit.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The Great Nines: a Classical Season with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will showcase six "ninth" symphonies.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Civic Academy. In partnership with the Detroit Public Schools, the program will provide beginning-level string training through weekly rehearsals, on-stage performances, and sectional training with the orchestra's musicians.

Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson
Jackson, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Ella Sharp Ceramics: Tips, Tools and Techniques, a symposium and ceramics workshop led by ceramicist Bill Vangilder. The workshop on contemporary ceramics is typical of the museum's outreach programs that include lecture series, curator chats and gallery walks.

Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc.
Flint, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the American Roots Music Outreach Project, featuring residencies by the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the JazzReach Performing Arts and Education Association's resident ensemble, the Metta Quintet. Residency activities include demonstrations as well as in-school and public performances.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performance and residency activities by American composers. In celebration of the festival's 15th anniversary, four composers, each turning 70 years old, will be featured including John Harbison, John Corigliano, Joan Tower, and William Bolcom.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Education Program. The program is designed to offer a menu of opportunities in which the orchestra's musicians will provide a range of music learning experiences for community and school partners, tailored to meet the needs of each partner.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Edgefest 2008, contemporary music and avant-garde jazz concerts with associated educational activities. The four-day festival will feature a roster of composer/performers that make use of traditional classical string instruments in contemporary and avant-garde jazz settings.

Long Haul Productions, Inc.
Three Oaks, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and post-production costs for two audio documentaries by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. American Chronicles will examine timely issues. Topics that may be covered include worker retraining, women returning from war, starting a small business, and healthcare for the uninsured.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a day of readings and workshops with a critically renowned African American writer 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 community members.

Michigan Classic Ballet Company
Bloomfield Hills, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." Related educational activities will include a curriculum guide, introduction to the different balletic styles offered by the company, a lecture, and post performance discussion.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
$788,755
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a traditional arts apprenticeship and heritage program, as well as an exhibition and related publications. The project will support programs to identify, preserve, and present the cultural heritage of the state.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$85,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Ensemble Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training leading to the creation and performance of an original musical.

Northwestern Michigan College Foundation (on behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
Traverse City, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the installation of Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio (CANVAS). CANVAS provides a space for creating and presenting computer-assisted multi-dimensional art projects.

Opus 21
Kalamazoo, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a chamber music residency in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The ensemble will present workshops and a public performance of music composed by American minimalist and post-minimalist composers including Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Bill Ryan, Mark Dancigers, Richard Adams, and Dennis DeSantis.

Plymouth Symphony Society (aka Plymouth Symphony Orchestra)
Plymouth, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Fusion Festival--Inspirations from India, featuring sitarist Hasu Patel. Patel will premiere a new work created specifically for the Festival.

Presque Isle District Library
Rogers City, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the commissioning and scoring of a music composition by Brian Belanger. The composition is designed to later premiere in the documentary "With Loss of Life: Remembering the SS Carl D. Bradley."

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support educational residencies by the Harlem Quartet. The ensemble will visit several New York public schools and perform in concert at Carnegie Hall.

St. Clair County Community College (aka SC4)
Port Huron, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Patterns Visitng Artists Forum. Guest authors Franz Wright and Michael Perry will commemorate Patterns 50th anniversary publication with readings.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the multidisciplinary arts series American Masterpieces: Defining and Re-Defining American Art. Programming will include orchestral and chamber music, dance, jazz, folk music, and Arab American works.

Waterfront Festival (aka Waterfront Film Festival)
Saugatuck, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the 2008 Waterfront Film Festival. Festival activities include question and answer sessions with national filmmakers and an outdoor film screening.

Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Detroit
Detroit, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Fresh Eyes. Local professional artists will teach writing, video-making, visual and performing arts at a weekend arts camp and in year-round workshops for children and youth, ages 11 to 17, living in metropolitan Detroit.


Number of Grants: 26          Total Amount: $1,244,255

 
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