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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 120 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 13,000 people in Michigan and in the states to which the festival tours.

Brazeal Dennard Chorale
Detroit, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the third annual Brazeal Dennard Chorale Spiritual Festival. Plans include performances, workshops, and a choral competition for high school, college, church, and community choruses.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
Detroit, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 30th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival. In honor of Detroit's own significant and rich history of players and composers, the festival will center around the family dynasty of the Jones brothers: NEA Jazz Masters Elvin Jones (2003) and Hank Jones (1989), and Thad Jones.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Living Composer Series, which will present four works by living composers, including Margaret Brouwer, Alla Borzova, Edgar Meyer, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Flint Institute of Arts (aka FIA)
Flint, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Contemporary Comic Book and Graphic Novel Art by African American Artists, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Viewers will experience the contributions African American artists are making to this genre and how their work addresses themes relevant to African American life.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles. Designed to bridge the gap between graduate school and a professional performing career, emerging, pre-professional ensembles will participate in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Huron Valley Council for the Arts
Highland, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support an animation camp, as well as an exhibition of stills and screenings of films created during the camp. Economically disadvantaged teens, and in some cases teens who have physical and cognitive disabilities, will be taught animation by filmmaker John Prusack during the camp.

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by the Complexions Contemporary Ballet. In addition to participating in several public radio interviews, the artists will lead a master class for Interlochen Arts Academy students.

Lenawee Symphony Orchestra Society
Adrian, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support American Rhapsody, a concert featuring violinist Janet Sung and new works by composer Kenneth Fuchs. Sung and Fuchs will participate in a pre-concert lecture.

Marquette Symphony Orchestra
Marquette, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and presentation of a work by composer Ashley Fure. The composer will participate in the orchestra's world premiere performance of the work at Kaufmann Auditorium in Marquette.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love). Performances will be accompanied by educational outreach activities.

Michigan State University (on behalf of Michigan State University Museum)
East Lansing, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the expansion of the exhibit Michigan Eats: Regional Culture through Food. New material will be added to the current exhibit to include information about farmers markets and the butchers, bakers, and restaurants that serve Michigan's diverse ethnic communities.

Michigan State University (Consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2009 Great Lakes Folk Festival. A collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the festival will showcase traditional cultural treasures of the nation's Upper Midwest and provide a sampling of the best traditional artists from around the country and the world.

Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the second Living Traditions Weekend. The project will consist of concurrent events, the Upper Peninsula Folk Festival and the Learning to Walk Together Traditional Powwow.

Northwestern Michigan College Foundation (on behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
Traverse City, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation at the Dennos Museum Center of the exhibition River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Notter, William J.
Grand Rapids, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

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

Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Inc.
Saugatuck, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Culture of Mexico Festival. Activities will include performances by the Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago, an exhibit of work by Teresa Villegas, and a pinata workshop for children.

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, with  young soloists appearing as guest artists in each of the concerts.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Celebration of the Arab World series. Artists will participate in performances and educational and community-based activities.

University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the design plan for an exterior amphitheater playhouse. Designs for Playhouse: An Exterior Urban Community Theater will be developed through workshops and temporary installations meant to encourage community participation in the design process.

William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, Inc.
Escanaba, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of a database of arts organizations, galleries, and artist studios located in the state's upper penninsula. The collected information will be published in the Art Tour of the U.P. map, to be distributed to visitor centers in the lower penninsula and northern Wisconsin. Additionally, links to each organizations' Web site will be available on William Bonifas Fine Arts Center's Web site.


Number of Grants: 22          Total Amount: $493,000

 
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