Sixty-six arts and cultural organizations in metro Detroit will share $5.1 million for their operations from The Kresge Foundation Detroit Program over the next three years.
More than half of the organizations are based in the city of Detroit. The others are in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. A little more than half of the funding will support the activities of small- to medium-size organizations, with the balance going to larger institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Henry Ford, and The Sphinx Organization, Kresge says.
Some of the other organizations receiving support are the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Arts and Scraps.
Five organizations – three of them Detroit-based – received funds through the program for the first time this year: 826michigan, Allied Media Projects, Dearborn Symphony Orchestra, Grosse Pointe War Memorial Association and Young Nation.
“These groups enrich the quality of life for residents of all ages across the region and raise the profile of Detroit, locally and nationally,” says George Jacobsen, senior program officer of Kresge’s Detroit Program. “This support will help these organizations fulfill their roles in inspiring, engaging and revitalizing southeast Michigan communities.”
“This round of funding paid particular attention to how organizations increased opportunities for cultural and artistic participation and creative expression for low-income individuals and people of color,” he says.
The grants to individual organizations range from $5,000 to $75,000 per year, and most grants are for three years. In this round, grant support was increased from two to three years in response to feedback from organizations that a longer grant duration supports stability and planning.
Kresge’s 2016 arts support recipients are:
- 826Michigan for Detroit Robot Factory
- ACCESS – Arab American National Museum
- All The World’s A Stage
- Allied Media Projects
- Arts & Scraps
- Arts League of Michigan, Inc. (The Carr Center)
- Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Inc.
- Chamber Music Society of Detroit
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
- College for Creative Studies for Office of Exhibitions and Public Programs, Community Arts Partnerships
- Cranbrook Educational Community – Art Museum, Institute of Science, and Center for Collections and Research
- Dearborn Symphony Orchestra
- Detroit Artist Market
- Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
- Detroit Children’s Choir
- Detroit Educational Television
- Detroit Educational Television for WRCJ 90.0 FM
- Detroit Historical Society
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Detroit International Jazz Festival
- Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation
- Detroit Repertory Theatre
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Detroit Zoological Society
- Eisenhower Dance Ensemble
- FAR Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts
- Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
- Grosse Pointe War Memorial Association
- Heritage Works
- Holocaust Memorial Center
- InsideOut Literary Arts
- Jewish Ensemble Theatre
- Living Arts
- Macomb Community College for Macomb Center for the Performing Arts and Lorenzo Cultural Center
- Marygrove College – OnStage! Institute of Music and Dance, and Institute for Arts Infused Education
- Matrix Theatre Company
- Michigan Opera Theatre
- Michigan Science Center
- Michigan State University for Community Music School – Detroit
- Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
- Motor City Brass Band
- Motown Historical Museum
- Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
- Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
- Oakland University for Meadow Brook Hall
- Pewabic Society, Inc.
- Power House Productions
- PuppetART
- Rackham Symphony Choir
- Signal-Return
- Southwest Detroit Business Association – CÓMPAS
- Sphinx Organization
- Stagecrafters
- Teen HYPE
- The Art Center
- The Henry Ford
- The Scarab Club
- Theatre Ensemble
- Troy Historical Society
- VSA Michigan
- Wayne State University – The Freer House
- Wayne State University – WSU Press
- Wayne State University for Hilberry Theatre
- Wayne State University for WDET101.9 FM
- YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit – Y-Arts
- Young Nation
Since 2010, Kresge has worked closely with the Erb Family Foundation on a shared application and review process for these general operating support grants. The foundations make funding decisions independently. Erb today announced 43 three-year grants – 41 of them in the city of Detroit – for a total of $4 million.
In addition to the grants for arts and cultural organizations, Kresge’s Detroit Program also supports individual artists through artist fellowships, emerging artist awards, and an annual Eminent Artist award. Since 2008 more than 160 artists have received more than $4 million through these Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowships and awards.
The new grants bring unrestricted operating support through Kresge’s Detroit Arts Support initiative to more than $24 million since its inception in 2007. Detroit Arts Support goes to organizations of all sizes in the performing, visual and literary arts, as well as to institutions engaged in arts service, arts education and arts broadcasting.
