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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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

Actors' Theatre Company (aka Actors' Theatre Grand Rapids)
Grand Rapids, MI, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support West Michigan New Works and Artists. The project will consist of a Visiting Artist Program that will offer professional training and mentorship to the local artist community by a visiting artist of diverse ethnicity or race, and a New Works Program that will feature the development and production of an original play and the expansion of the Living on the Edge ten-minute play festival.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival (aka Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts ) (Consortium)
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the performances by Australia's spectacle theater troupe Strange Fruit. In partnership with the Space 122's River to River Festival in New York, Strange Fruit will perform and conduct workshops at both festivals.

Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (aka ACCESS)
Dearborn, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the SURA Arts Academy, a weekly photography and film instruction program for middle school students in Dearborn and Detroit. Students work alongside professional photographers and filmmakers from Detroit's College for Creative Studies/cw.

Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board, Inc. (aka BHK Child Development)
Houghton, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Generations to Generations, a series of classes, demonstrations, and field trips to regional heritage centers that teach elementary school students the historical, cultural, and social contexts of folk and traditional arts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Folk and traditional artists will teach Finnish kantele, dance, rag rug weaving, basketry, copper art, and woodwork, and guide students on field trips.

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Precollege Summer Experience program. Students will create original art works, explore various careers in art and design fields, meet working artists, and develop a portfolio.

Detroit Chamber Winds
Southfield, MI
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Pontiac Schools Project. Plans include performances, demonstrations, master classes, and coaching sessions by musicians from the ensemble to every elementary, middle, and high school in the district.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
Detroit, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Detroit Jazz Festival's We Bring You the World. Music from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, and India will be presented at the festival, featuring performances by Angelique Kidjo (Benin), Zakir Hussain (India), Ladysmith Black Mambazo (South Africa), Gal Costa (Brazil), Vijay Iyer (United States), and artist-in-residence Jeff "Tain" Watts (United States).

InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Detroit, MI
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Voices High School Literary Expansion program, in which teams of writers-in-residence will visit Detroit public high schools to present a literature program to enhance the schools' curriculum throughout the school year. Services will include year-long creative writing residencies in selected classes; creative writing teaching units developed with classroom teachers; guest poets; one-on-one mentoring in a writing center; publication in literary journals; and public performances.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Growing Up Musical, a series of community music education programs. Members of the Kalamazoo orchestra will provide in-class workshops, school presentations, an instrument petting zoo, residencies, coaching, and classes in music theory and composition for community and school partners.

Living Arts
Detroit, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support El Arte: Arts-Infused Education in arts residencies in southwest Detroit public schools. Local professional artists will collaborate with classroom teachers to design and teach lessons that infused pantomime, theater, music, dance, visual arts, songwriting, video-animation, and poetry into the curriculum.

Long Haul Productions, Inc.
Three Oaks, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a series of audio documentaries by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. American Anthology will examine a wide range of timely issues such as the effect of undocumented workers in a small town in Iowa; the current social, political, and environmental issues of the Salton Sea; boomtowns in North Dakota; and the prospects for Idlewild, Michigan, a once-vibrant resort for African Americans that has fallen into disrepair.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a day of readings and master classes with a critically renowned African American writer as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The 2012 series will feature author Thomas Glave.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Theatre Education for All, a year-long theater training program. Three terms during the school year, each lasting 10 weeks, will focus on skill-building and production of an all-school play, resulting in a performance in May; the summer program will provide an intensive creative experience in a specific skill, story, or theme.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
$819,845
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. The production will mark the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth, and will engage a creative team to include director Robert Swedberg, set and costume designer Monika Essen, conductor Suzanne Mallare Acton, with Meredith Arwady performing in the title role.

Michigan State University (on behalf of Michigan State Unversity Museum)
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support two components of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, as well as infrastructure support for key staff. The Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and Michigan Heritage Awards both directly support folk artists and their work in the state.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Main Stage Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students ages 11-18 with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training leading to the creation and performance of an original musical that will be performed at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and toured at approximately 12 universities nationwide.

Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the exhibition Marquette to Spring Green to Los Angeles: The Architecture of John Lautner at the DeVos Art Museum, with accompanying public programs. John Lautner was born in Marquette, Michigan, and despite becoming an architectural icon, he is relatively unknown in his hometown.

Northern Michigan University (on behalf of Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center)
Marquette, MI
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2011 Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival, a two-day event featuring concerts, workshops and demonstrations of folk and traditional arts from throughout the Upper Peninsula. The festival will include tradition bearers from most of the cultural and ethnic groups that populate the region, including French-Canadian, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Croatian, Cornish, German, English, and Irish, as well as musicians from throughout the U.S.

Purple Rose Theatre Company
Chelsea, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of White Buffalo by Don Zolidis. Based on actual events, the play recounts the miracle birth of a white buffalo calf that fulfills a birth prophecy believed by the Sioux to bring peace on earth and unity to all mankind.

Sphinx Organization, Inc. (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Sphinx Journeys, a weekly local radio broadcast. In partnership with the Detroit Educational Television Foundation (WRCJ 90.9 FM), approximately ten one-hour episodes, hosted by Sphinx founder and President Aaron Dworkin, will explore the musical works of American composers of color through discussions with conductors, musicians, and composers, as well as through a variety of studio and live performance recordings.

University Musical Society (aka UMS)
Ann Arbor, MI
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Changing the Game: Mavericks and Innovators in the Arts. The project will consist of a series of residencies and performances in dance, music, and opera with artists including director Robert Wilson, choreographer Lucinda Childs, NEA Opera Honoree Philip Glass, and the San Francisco Symphony.

Water Street Glassworks
Benton Harbor, MI
$13,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Fired Up!, an after-school arts program in glassblowing, glass fusing, and glass beadmaking for under-served teens in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Students will work with professional glass artists from the Benton Harbor Arts District to produce work for summer community art fairs.


Number of Grants: 23          Total Amount: $1,478,845

 
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