2003 Grant Awards: State Listings
Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Over 125 films
will be presented to an audience of over 30,000 people in Michigan
and the states to which the festival tours.
ArtServe Michigan, Inc.
Southfield, MI
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support and expand the Volunteer Services Program. ArtServe
will present workshops focusing on the business of being an artist,
and will develop online forums, an arts fair and a speakers'
bureau.
Detroit Repertory Company (Millan Theatre Company)
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a production and special marketing initiatives for a
play about racism, compassion and brotherhood. John Henry Redwood's
No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs will be directed by Ed
Smith.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new composition
by Michael Daugherty and related residency activities. The new
work, a violin concerto, will be premiered by violinist Pamela
Frank and recorded for broadcast in May 2003.
Flint Institute of Arts
Flint, MI
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$300,000
To support the preservation of the museum's extensive American
paintings collection. FIA's holdings represent significant aspects
of American history and culture, and include works from artists
such as John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Wayne Thiebaud,
Alexander Calder, Willem deKooning and Romare Bearden.
Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the creation, presentation and recording of works by
Adolphus Hailstork for the 75th anniversary season. The recording
will couple Mr. Hailstork's newly commissioned work, Symphony
#3, with his never-recorded Symphony #2.
Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts
Agencies
$55,000
To support a series of statewide conferences focusing on arts
management issues and the unveiling of a new Leadership Academy.
The programs are designed to expand the scope of the training and
technical assistance that MACAA offers to cultural arts
organizations in 83 Michigan counties.
Poetry Slam, Inc.
Whitmore Lake, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the 14th Annual National Poetry Slam in Chicago,
Ill. This four-day festival will showcase more than 250 poets from
across the nation and abroad to an estimated audience of
10,000.
Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Dearborn, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$60,000
To support a professional development project for emerging
young string instrumentalists. The Sphinx Symphony Concert and
Sphinx Honors Concert will present young musicians in concert at
Orchestra Hall in Detroit.
Tysh, Leopoldia C.
Ferndale, MI
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).
University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support expansion of the African American Stories series.
Projects will be presented in conjunction with residency activities
that engage artists with school and community groups in both Ann
Arbor and Detroit.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of
Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition The Time in Between: Betye
Saar and the Persistence of Photography.
Total Dollars Awarded: $650,000
Total Grants Awarded: 12
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