by Jennifer Sierra | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog, Blog: Grants
March is Women’s History Month, and to honor this month Michigan Humanities reached out to our 2019 Humanities Grant awardee: The Center for the Arts of Greater Lapeer. The Center has been working on a play titled “It Happened Here: A Story of the Women’s...
by Jennifer Sierra | Feb 2, 2021 | Blog, Blog: General Humanities, Blog: Grants
Breed & Bootleg: Legends of Flint Rap Music is the new documentary of Dr. Geri Alumit Zeldes, a professor in Michigan State University’s School of Journalism and a long time partner and grantee of Michigan Humanities. We wanted to talk to Geri about her new...
by Jennifer Sierra | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog, Blog: General Humanities, Blog: Grants
In 2015, the Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives became a recipient of the Michigan Humanities Heritage Grant. Michigan Humanities wanted to reconnect with George Bayard III and share some of his experiences as a filmmaker and museum director. George is...