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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

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

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary arts performances and related activities at the 2012 Ann Arbor Summer Festival. Artists including jazz performer Esperanza Spalding, dance troupe Pilobolus, Australian theater group Erth, and singer Al Green will perform and participate in workshops, master classes, and discussions.

Art Center (aka Anton Art Center)
Mount Clemens, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of thematic contemporary art exhibitions, public events, and educational programming. Possible themes include Cut and Paste, the art of collage; Consumed, exhibiting work that uses food as image, subject, and material; and POP, showing work that explores the intersection of pop culture and contemporary art.

Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan
Detroit, MI
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Program Innovation
To support CriticCar Detroit, a mobile recording booth that will traverse the city designed to be a community-generated source for opinions and discussion about a variety of cultural events mirroring Detroit's diversity and automotive history.

Detroit Chamber Winds
Southfield, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Pontiac Schools Project. Plans include school performances by musicians from the ensemble for elementary schools in the Dearborn, Pontiac, and Troy school districts.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Neighborhood Concert Series. As many as 24 orchestral concerts (half of them conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin) are planned in area churches and community centers featuring full symphonic works from the standard repertoire, arrangements for chamber orchestra, and contemporary works by American composers such as Cindy McTee.

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the experimental Open Book workshop. The project will include a workshop and exhibition catalogue to envision experimental book design and formats that address the future of the book as a digital, physical, or hybrid object.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Detroit, MI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Expanded Voices, a high school literary program. 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 authors; one-on-one mentoring in a writing center; assistance for students in writing college application essays; publication in literary journals; a city-wide youth writers conference; and public performances.

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a series of guest artist/faculty master classes in creative writing, dance, motion picture arts, music, theater arts, visual arts, and comparative arts for students attending Interlochen Arts Academy. Prominent guest artists who are in residence from one day to full semesters will offer students fresh ideas on their own musical and artistic interpretation, technique, and performance strategies.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Growing Up Musical, a series of community music education programs. The project offers opportunities for community and school partners to receive a range of music learning experiences from professional musicians including in-class workshops, school-wide presentations, an instrument petting zoo, residencies, coaching, and classes in music theory and composition.

Long Haul Productions, Inc
Three Oaks, MI
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a series of audio documentaries by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, including related expenses to expand the stories on the web. American Anthology will examine a wide range of issues such as healthcare, immigration, and climate change.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$53,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support STEAM: Theatre Arts at the Center of Environmental Science Learning. Designed in collaboration with the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition, students will work with professional artists to create new plays and puppets to depict the local water ecosystem. Teaching artists, environmental educators, and classroom teachers will receive specialized training in arts integration strategies during professional development sessions.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
$768,945
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Michigan Traditional Arts Program (MTAP). The program will strengthen the state's folklife through fieldwork and targeted documentation of traditional artists and folk arts events; use new and existing documentation to enhance online web resources; and develop social media tools to connect folk artists, audiences, and other cultural workers to MTAP's resources and activities.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support two components of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program. The Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and Michigan Heritage Awards both directly support folk artists and their work in the state.

Northern Michigan University (on behalf of Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center)
Marquette, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2012 Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival, an event featuring concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of folk and traditional arts from throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The festival will include tradition bearers from most of the cultural and ethnic groups that populate the region, including Anishinaabeg, French-Canadian, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Croatian, Cornish, German, English, and Irish, as well as musicians from throughout the United States.

Northwestern Michigan College (Consortium)
Traverse City, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Tiempo Libre Michigan Touring Project. In partnership with Michigan State University in Lansing, the college will co-present the Cuban music ensemble Tiempo Libre in performances and educational programming, such as participatory workshops in drumming and dance, in as many as 12 sites around central and northern Michigan, including Canton, Roscommon, Sault Ste. Marie, and Traverse City.

Power House Productions (aka PHP)
Detroit, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the design of a sculptural skate park. This project will engage both artists and skateboard professionals to design a park in a vacant commercial lot, thus creating a positive and active use for a neglected and crime-ridden corner of a Detroit neighborhood.

Purple Rose Theatre Company
Chelsea, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Purple Rose will engage Dr. Enoch Brater, a professor at the University of Michigan, to participate in lectures, concert readings, talk-backs, student matinees, tours, study guides, and the production of an educational video that will be made available to schools, libraries, senior centers, and others free of charge.

Sphinx Organization, Inc. (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour and community engagement project featuring the Sphinx Virtuosi and the Catalyst Quartet. In partnership with the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Inc. in New York City, a group of approximately 25 emerging young string players, laureates, and alumni of the national Sphinx Competition for mostly African American and Latino musicians, will tour and perform diverse repertoire by composers Heitor Villa-Lobos, George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Gabriela Lena Frank, Felix Mendelssohn, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

University Musical Society (aka UMS)
Ann Arbor, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Landmarks: A Series of Return Engagements by Three Ensembles. The project will consist of residencies and performances in dance, music, and theater with ensembles including the Martha Graham Dance Company, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Propeller (United Kingdom).

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of University of Michigan Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the integration of multimedia interpretive materials into the University of Michigan Museum of Art's galleries. This project has two main components: 1) the migration of existing original digital content to iOS devices (iPod Touches and iPads) for both individual visitor and group tour use; and 2) a multimedia storytelling project that engages community members to document their experiences with the collection.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $1,546,945

 
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