NEA 2010 Awards for Michigan announced

From Carolyn Damstra, Program Manager at the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA):

Congratulations to all these Michigan organizations for bringing these important federal dollars to our state!

FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/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

Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary presentations. As part of the reopening activities of the Fine Arts Center, the programming will include music and dance performances, and exhibition, lecture, workshops, demonstrations, and artist talks.

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an ensemble residency program. The Romero Guitar Quartet will present a concert, school performances, lecture-demonstrations, and master classes for elementary through high school students and at community organizations.

Detroit Chamber Winds
Southfield, MI
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Pontiac Schools Project. Plans include multiple visits to every elementary, middle, and high school in the district.

Detroit Chamber Winds
Southfield, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency with composer William Bolcom. Each of the concerts will feature a work by the composer who will be in attendance at each performance.

Detroit Institute of Arts (aka DIA)
Detroit, MI
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support research, conservation, and display of paintings currently in storage. Many of the paintings have been in storage for decades and have been recently reexamined to be introduced back into the museum's permanent galleries.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Power of Dreams String Music Project. In partnership with Wayne State University, the program offers group string lessons and performance opportunities to elementary-aged students, taught by qualified music education students from Wayne State University.

Eisenhower Dance Ensemble
Southfield, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Lar Lubovitch's Marimba. The work will be performed by the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts and at Oakland University in Detroit.

Flint Institute of Arts
Flint, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ARTreach, a visual arts education program. Institute staff and classroom educators will create arts learning activities integrating a studio component organized around major themes explored in the core curriculum to strengthen literacy.

Focus: HOPE
Detroit, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Excel Photography Program. High school students will learn technical and artistic photographic skills from professional photographers.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American chamber music and related educational activities during the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. The focus for the festival will be the works of composer Samuel Barber including his String Quartet Op. 11, Summer Music, Dover Beach, and the Cello Sonata.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Voices High School Literary Expansion program. Teams of two writers-in-residence will visit Detroit public high schools to present a literature program to enhance the schools' curriculum throughout the school year.

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Guest Artist-Faculty in Residence. Guest artist master classes, seminars, and lectures in creative writing, dance, motion picture arts, music, theater arts, and visual arts will be offered for students (ages 8 to 18) enrolled in the summer arts camp and year-round arts academy.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support education and community programs. The program is designed to offer a menu of opportunities in which the orchestra's musicians will provide a range of music learning experiences for community and school partners, tailored to meet the needs of each partner

Long Haul Productions Inc
Three Oaks, MI
$10,000
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.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a day of readings and workshops with a critically renowned African American writer as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted to more than 200,000 students and community members.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Matrix School of Theater. The year-long theater training program serves youth, ages 5 to 18, in the areas of playwriting, puppetry, and performance.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Lansing, MI
$903,745
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Michigan State University (on behalf of Michigan State University Museum)
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2009 Apprenticeship and Heritage Program. The Michigan State University Museum project will provide support for the Michigan Traditional Arts Program which manages the state's folklife program, including the state's apprenticeship program.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$78,000
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 with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training leading to the creation and performance of an original musical.

Northern Michigan University (on behalf of Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center)Marquette, MI
$15,000CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the third annual Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival. Northern Michigan University, on behalf of the Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center, will present a folk festival celebrating the cultural diversity of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Rebirth, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Education Outreach Concert Series in Detroit public elementary, middle, and high schools. From October 2010 to March 2011, a total of 18 live concerts will take place in five schools, providing three hour-long presentations that also will showcase early jazz.

Sphinx Organization, Inc. (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute. In partnership with Wayne State University, the program provides Detroit-area youth Saturday classes in instrumental performance, music theory, ear training, and music history.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support American Masterpieces: Performance and Context. The presenting series will explore the American legacy of master works in the genres of classical and contemporary music, jazz, modern dance, and traditional folk music.


Number of Grants: 23 Total Amount: $1,618,245