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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | 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: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival. At the forthcoming festival, many genres will be presented including documentaries, animated films, cinéma vérité, narrative, and personal story cinema.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. This three-week festival includes local, national, and international artists.

Ann Arbor Teen Center, Inc. (aka Neutral Zone)
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Art for Life visual arts education program at Neutral Zone. Teens receive rigorous, advanced technical and conceptual mentorship on their artwork, create a professional portfolio and resume, research contemporary artists to inform their practice, learn exhibition production procedures, and learn about helping the community through art.

ArtServe Michigan, Inc.
Wixom, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Lawyers for the Creative Economy (LCE), a statewide network of attorneys who provide free to low-fee legal resources to artists, creative practitioners, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. LCE will provide professional development seminars in intellectual property and other creativity-related areas of the law for artists and other creative practitioners.

Brimhall, Traci
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music presentations, a residency, and related educational activities. Plans include concerts by the American String Quartet at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit which will be part of a two-week residency working in metropolitan Detroit schools; the Gryphon Trio at the Majestic Theatre which will combine chamber music with jazz and world music; and Piffaro the Renaissance Band at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

City of East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Great Lakes Folk Festival. The festival will showcase the traditional music, dance, foodways, and other cultural expressions of the nation's Upper Midwest. The festival will provide performances and demonstrations for approximately 125 artists.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of contemporary artist Shirin Neshat (b. 1957). The exhibition will include approximately 70 photographs and 10 video installations that explore issues of freedom, international politics, gender, identity, and religion.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies and related educational activities. Conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin, all nine Beethoven symphonies plus the three Leonore Overtures, the Fidelio Overture, and Creatures of Prometheus will be performed over a three-week period.

Dzanc Books
Westland, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new books of fiction and e-book reprints. Scheduled authors as Stephen Dixon, Padgett Powell, Nadine Gordimer, and Ellen Gilchrist. The press will release new print books by Roy Kesey, Merrill Joan Gerber, Eugene Marten, David Ohle, and Jason Ockert; as well as ebooks from Jonathan Baumbach, Abby Frucht, J. Robert Lennon, Ander Monson, Greg Johnson, and Michael Martone.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Acts of Creation, a series of concerts and broadcasts celebrating the 100th birthday of composer Benjamin Britten with related educational and ancillary activities. Plans include presentations by the viol consort Fretwork, tenor Nicholas Phan, the St. Lawrence String Quartet; a screening of the new film by British director Tony Palmer about the recording of Britten's opera The Burning Fiery Furnace; and a reading and discussion of Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 by Britten (ed. Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed) at a public library.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual presentation of Symphony with Soul, as well as a collaborative workshop involving Grand Rapids Symphony orchestra musicians and local public school students. Symphony with Soul, led by guest conductor Michael Morgan, will feature pastor and gospel singer Dr. Marvin Sapp, and the concert will include the presentation of original music created during the workshop, performed by local public school students.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles, and a 20th anniversary alumni concert. Designed to bridge the gap between graduate school and a professional performing career, the program involves emerging, pre-professional ensembles participating in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Edgefest 2013 Keys to the Edgedom. A four-day avant-garde jazz festival in locations around Ann Arbor will showcase ground-breaking pianists and their new music including NEA Jazz Master Muhal Richard Abrams, Myra Melford, and Geri Allen in free and ticketed events.

Lenawee Symphony Orchestra Society
Adrian, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Adrian Symphony Orchestra playing an all-Beethoven concert featuring violinist Caroline Goulding with related outreach activities. Goulding will participate in associated outreach activities including a free rehearsal open to the public, educational concerts designed specifically for elementary students, and concerts for members of the HOPE Community Center, a social service organization addressing the needs of adults with disabilities.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series featuring poet Terrance Hayes. Students from low-income high schools will receive free copies of one of Hayes' books and attend a reading and discussion by the poet; residents of Detroit will also be invited to an additional public reading.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Beethoven's Fidelio. This classic tale of good versus evil will be the company's first production sung in German in many years. Five performances will take place at the Detroit Opera House with a free Opera Talk lecture before each performance.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Main Stage Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students ages 11 to 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.

Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the exhibition Modern Twist: Japanese Bamboo Art with related outreach activities. Low-income students will attend the exhibition for free and associated programs will include lectures about bamboo art and other related cultural programs covering topics such as ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), bonsai (miniature tree cultivation), and anime (Japanese animation).

Old Town Business & Art Development Association
Lansing, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the free Lansing JazzFest, an annual festival showcasing a broad range of jazz genres including contemporary jazz, swing, Dixieland, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, and African-inspired jazz music. The festival will include lectures, workshops, a KidzBeat area featuring an instrument petting zoo, instrument giveaways, and music education sessions.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition documenting the influence of the Chinese ink painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957) on the work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-88). The exhibition will feature drawings by Noguchi and ink painting and calligraphic works by Qi.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $510,000

 
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