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Barbara Martin (email to update your profile)
Profile last updated: 07/27/02
 
Address: Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
County: Wayne
Phone (w): 313-833-1467
Phone (h): 313-921-1719
Fax: 313-833-3310

E-mail: bemartin@detroit.lib.mi.us

 
Academic Affiliation: U. of Michigan; Wayne State U.
Non-academic affiliation: -
Degree: Master of Music
Major: Performance
Minor: Archival Administration
 
Specialization areas: Area Studies: African American Performin Arts/Artists-Voice: Classical, Gospel, Jazz, Choral, Musical Theatre; Oral History; Conservation/Cultural Heritage; Preservation
Implementing projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist, Project Evaluator
Project types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects, Media, New Technology
Areas willing to participate: Planning Projects, Developing Projects, Research
 

Past experience: among others, proposal writer for:

  • 1) Community music school music technology lab. Funded by City of Det. Empowerment Zone
  • 2) Detroit Public Library Detroit 300 Project: Proposal funded, not used.
  • 3) Community Music School Jazz Faculty Performance: Funded by Detroit Cultural Affairs (Mini-Grant).

Write, Implement, Administer 5yr/$50,000+per Art Centered Education grant: collaborates with 3 Detroit area cultural organizations to provide arts enhancements to 5 Detroit Public Schools.

Coordinate DPL CD-Rom project including conception,research,writing,editing and material selection: funded by Wayne RESA

Team member - NEA funded grant proposal for DPL's Roland Hayes Gala weekend (March 2001).

 
Suggestions for public humanities projects:

E. Azalia Hackley Collection 60th Anniversary Celebration - 2003 yearlong celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Created to document the contributions of Blacks to the Performing Arts, the Hackley Collection was the first archive of its kind. The celebration would consist of a series of performances, lecture/panels, and exhibits that reflect the holdings of the Collection. Two traveling exhibits to mounted are: To Sidney, with love: celebrating the career of Sidney Poitier (photographic), and The E. Azalia Hackley Collection: the Kurtz Myers years. The latter exhibit will document the acquistions for the Collection made between 1954 - 1971 by DPL Music Department Head: Kurtz Myers. Rare items include: The photographs of Carl Van Vechten and Barbara Morgan (dance), WPA Federal Theatre productions by Negro actors, and Kurtz Myers corresdence with many celebrated artists of the day (Sol Hurok, Marion Anderson, Eubie Blake, Alvin Ailey, Roland Hayes, Carl Van Vechten). Audience: General Public through the state library system. Location: Detroit and statewide.

Michigan Artists Jazz Festival - Collaborate with SEMJA (Southeastern Michigan Jazz Association) and JAM (Jazz Alliance of Michigan) to create a festival involving Detroit and Michigan based artists, educators and historians in performances,lecture/panels, workshops and master classes. Audience(statewide): aspiring jazz musicians young and old as participants and the general public as audience. Location: Art Center Music School, and Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit.

I.Suzuki Strings Program
II.Gospel Music Proficiency Certificate Program (Keyboard)
III. Pan (Steel) Drum Yard & Instructional Program
Design curriculums for I - III as a complement to traditional Western European music instruction. Audience: Metropolitan Detroit area residents. Location: Art Center Music School Detroit MI.

 
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