Past Grant Recipients

Fall 2019 Humanities Grant Awards

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Genesee County

Flint Youth Film Festival
Flint Youth Film Festival
$15,000

Youth Arts: Unlocked
HerStory: Unlocked Project
$15,000

Kent County

Calvin University
The Undefeated: Presenting Kadir Nelson for Black History Month and Festival of Faith & Writing
$15,000

Ingham County

Michigan State University
Storied Landscapes: Bridging Ecological and Oral Histories on the Corey Marsh Interpretive Trail
$10,718

MSU Museum
Beyond Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics exhibit and programs
$10,000

Lapeer County

Center for the Arts of Greater Lapeer
Women’s Suffrage Project
$13,688

Mackinac County

Museum of Ojibwa Culture
Unlocking the Silence/A Path to Empowerment Travelling Exhibit
$15,000

Marquette County

Marquette Regional History Center
The Great Outdoors: The History of Outdoor Recreation in Marquette County
$5,400

Mason County

West Shore Community College
WSCC’s Humankind Series: “Dreams, Promises and Realities: Life in Cuba and the US”
$15,000

Wayne County

Charles H. Wright Museum
Bird Lives! “Yardbird: Conversations”
$15,000

Michigan Opera Theatre
Taking the Stage: The Changing Voice of Opera and Dance
$15,000

Planet Ant Theatre
The Detroit Musical
$15,000

Spring 2019 Humanities Grant Awards

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Akshara
Rasa Festival of Performing Arts
$15,000

Cedar Tree Institute
Water Rising
$14,000

Detroit Educational Television Foundation
Rihla: Arab Americans in Detroit
$15,000

Detroit Historical Society
Neighborhoods: Where Detroit Lives Oral History Project
$14,500

Detroit Public Theatre
Richard III-In Prison: A Critical Edition
$15,000

Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation
Bringing the Past Home
$14,354

Gilmore Car Museum
Birth of the Automobile: Amish Buggy to Horseless Carriage
$3,850

Grand Valley State University
L’dor V’dor: Jewish Community of Michigan
$11,628

Historical Society for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Documentary of the Court and its History
$15,000

Hope College
Little Read Lakeshore
$15,000

Lawrence Technological University
Humanity + Technology Lecture Series
$6,800

Michigan History Foundation
Michigan Anishinaabe Heritage Program Planning and Development
$15,000

Detroit Women of Color
Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival
$11,069

PuppetART
Opportunity Southfield
$9,900

Underground Railroad Society of Cass County
Underground Railroad Days
$12,000

Wild Swan Theater
Women Scientists Take the Stage
$15,000

Total: $203,101

 

Fall 2018 Humanities Grants Awards

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Alma College
Coffee House Conference
$1,447

Beaver Island Historical Society
Beaver Island WPA Exhibit
$10,500

Calvin College
Gateway to Grand Rapids
$15,000

Downtown Outreach Corporation
African American Mysteries
$15,000

Grand Rapids Public Museum
Baw-a-ting
$15,000

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Black Refractions
$15,000

Marquette Regional History Center
Changing Hands
$5,522

Marygrove College
Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series
$10,000

Muskegon Museum of Art
Perceptions
$15,000

Shop Floor Theatre Company
See You Yesterday
$15,000

Troy Historical Society
History: Inside & Out
$15,000

Visions
Warrior Lawyers
$15,000

West Shore Community College
Humankind Series: Whose Place is it?
$15,000

Total: $162,469

 

2018 Spring Grant Recipients

2017 Fall Grant Recipients

2016 Grant Recipients

2015 Grant Recipients