Michigan Arts and Culture Council

Join us online tonight (Tuesday, July 9 at 6:00pm EST) for our final virtual grant workshop. Learn all about MACC's new arts and culture grant programs including eligibility, available funding opportunities, and the application process. Plus, ask your questions in the webinar chat and get them answered by MACC staff.

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Direct link to join the Microsoft Teams webinar at 6:00pm EST: https://bit.ly/3xbSZpz (if joining from a cell phone, you may need to download the free Microsoft Teams app to join).

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Can't make it to the webinar? Access a previously recorded workshop (containing all the same grant information that will be shared tonight) here at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7n3ARf5A-8

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More information on MACC's grant programs can be found on our website's Grants page: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/indust.../macc/macc-grants/ . Applications for FY25 funding (for operations and projects happening between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025) are due by this summer's grant deadline of July 24, 2024 at 5:00PM EST.

Announcing the Midwest Culture Bearers Award A $5,000 award that celebrates and supports the work of Midwest culture bearers and folk arts practitioners.

MACC grant applicants near Detroit--our next in-person workshop is for you!

Join us on Thursday, June 20 beginning at 10:00am EST at Chroma Detroit (2937 E Grand Blvd. Detroit) for a presentation on our new grant programs and to get all your application questions answered!

Thanks to our partner CultureSource for hosting this workshop.

Reminder: Every Tuesday from 10:00-11:00am EST, MACC staff host virtual office hours to assist grant applicants at any stage of the application process. Drop in at any time during the hour to ask your questions and receive on-the-spot guidance from MACC Program Managers.

The weekly office hours began on May 7 and run through July 23 (with our FY25 application deadline being July 24).

Here is the direct link to join the weekly office hours: https://bit.ly/4eo8OKv. The meeting is hosted on Microsoft Teams (if joining from a smartphone, you may need to download the free Microsoft Teams app to join).

For more information on MACC FY25 arts and culture grant opportunities, please visit the Grants page of our website: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/industries/macc/macc-grants/

Saginaw, MI is now home to the second-largest mural in the United States.

Artist Okuda San Miguel, alongside his team from Spain, transformed the abandoned silos into colorful works of art for the Shine Bright Saginaw Mural Project. The team included five mid-Michigan artists who added their own touches to the project. Artists completed the mural after just 18 days of painting.

Okuda San Miguel, known as OKUDA, is a street artist based out of Madrid. Since 1997 his pieces have appeared on railroads and abandoned factories in his hometown. His multicolored geometric structures and patterns are combined with gray bodies and organic forms in artistic pieces that can be categorized as Pop Surrealism with a clear essence of street forms. His works can be seen in the streets and galleries around the world including India, Mali, Mozambique, United States, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Peru, South Africa, Mexico and the European continent, among others.

Join us on Thursday, June 13 at 2:00pm EST for our second virtual grant workshop. Learn all about MACC's new arts and culture grant programs including eligibility, available funding opportunities, and the application process. Plus, ask your questions in the webinar chat and get them answered by MACC staff.

Direct link to join the Microsoft Teams webinar at 2:00pm EST: https://bit.ly/3xbSZpz. (If joining from a cell phone, you may need to download the free Microsoft Teams app to join).

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Can't make it to the webinar? Access a previously recorded workshop (containing all the same grant information that will be shared on Thursday June 13) here at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7n3ARf5A-8

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More information on MACC's grant programs can be found on our website's Grants page: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/industries/macc/macc-grants/ . Applications for FY25 funding (for operations and projects happening between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025) are due by this summer's grant deadline of July 24, 2024 at 5:00PM EST.

Congratulations to Peter White Public Library of Marquette, MI on being selected as a 2024-2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant recipient!

Arts Midwest

We are excited to announce the 62 organizations receiving 2024-2025 NEA Big Read grants!

The NEA is investing $1,075,000 to support community programming around the theme "Where We Live," with an NEA Read Big book serving as inspiration. Click to learn more! https://bit.ly/4bIEBnR

MACC grant applicants near Ypsilanti--our next in-person workshop is for you!

Join us tomorrow (June 6) beginning at 10:00am at Riverside Arts Center (76 N Huron St, Ypsilanti) for a presentation on our new grant programs and to get all your application questions answered!

See additional in-person and virtual workshop dates here: https://bit.ly/3Rf1Ey2

Join MACC tomorrow morning at 10:00am Eastern for our first virtual grant workshop to learn more about our FY25 arts and culture grant opportunities! Find the link to join by clicking the link at the end of this post.

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MACC staff is now offering numerous opportunities for the field to attend in-person workshops, access virtual webinars, or connect with staff during open, informal office hours leading up to the grant deadline on July 24, 2024. Free and open to the public, individuals are welcome to join any, or all, of these connection points to ask questions or get an overview of the grants MACC now offers.

VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
May 20 @ 10am
June 13 @ 2pm
July 9 @ 6pm

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS
Offered every Tuesday from 10 - 11am through July 23.

IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS:
May 30 @ 1pm: Michigan Economic Development Co, 300 N Washington Sq, Lansing
May 31 @ 10am: Black Arts & Cultural Center, 359 S Kalamazoo Mall, UNIT 202, Kalamazoo
June 14 @ 10am: Andersen Center, 120 Ezra Rust Dr, Saginaw
June 20 @ 10am: Chroma Detroit, 2937 E Grand River Blvd, Detroit
TBA: Riverside Arts Center, 76 N Huron St, Ypsilanti

More information and virtual workshop links are available here: https://bit.ly/3wGxtZI

MACC is currently accepting applications for its FY25 grant period. Application deadline: July 24, 2024 at 5:00pm EST.

Arts and culture funding is available for Michigan nonprofits, PreK-12 schools (public or private, home schools, RESAs, etc), colleges/universities, municipalities, and Tribal entities. Funding is available (depending on organization type) in several areas including operations, projects, professional development, arts education, facility improvements, and more.

MACC's grant overview page is attached to this post. Please feel free to contact MACC staff with any questions related to the application process.

Applications are now open for Arts Midwest's GIG Fund! This grant of up to $4,000 helps Midwestern organizations work with professional artists to present community programming. Intent to Apply is due May 23.

Now Accepting Applications: 2024-25 GIG Fund A $4,000 grant helping Midwestern nonprofits present performing and visual arts activities between September 2024—May 2025.

The Michigan Arts and Culture Council (MACC) today announced several new grantmaking initiatives that dramatically strengthen the agency’s ability to provide equitable, fair, and transparent funding opportunities to organizations that help ensure all Michigan communities thrive from the civic, economic, and educational benefits of arts and culture.

Read the full press release outlining the changes here: https://puremi.ch/4djcigR

Access program information and grant guidelines here: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/industries/macc/macc-grants/

The MACC 2023 Annual Report is here!

Catch the highlights below and access the entire report here: https://puremi.ch/3wLUpqe

Featuring success stories from: All of the Above Hip Hop Academy, City of Sault Ste. Marie, MI, Ishpeming Public Schools, The Henry Ford, and Michigan Poetry Out Loud.

Rural and small communities: You are invited to learn more about technical assistance resources available through U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development and the National Endowment for the Arts! Join a webinar on February 6 to hear more about placemaking grants.

https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_K0n4AP19Q-Kq3pP_GB6uLg #/registration

Spotted: new artwork at Cherry Capital Airport - TVC (Traverse City)!

“There is joy in both the hygge of hibernating and the exhilaration of migrating to a warm weather destination or Winter ski trip. In these paintings, we leaned into this joy and the sublime beauty of the natural world as animals and landscapes transform with light, shape and color under frost, snow and flight. Some of us here in northern Michigan are "Let's get the heck outta here!", others arrive here or stay here, experiencing the novel melting taste of snowflakes or seeking the playful depths of snow for the first time. We hope this exhibit romances you with winter as you come and go and keeps you looking on the bright side!"

-Artists Justin Schull, Lindy Bishop, and Colleen Gleason Schull

We have new artwork here at the airport done by artists Justin Schull, Lindy Bishop, and Colleen Gleason Schull! 🎨 🖼️

The theme is MIGRATE / HIBERNATE. This is their fourth exhibit here at TVC and specifically embraces Winter.

They explain their inspiration below.

“There is joy in both the hygge of hibernating and the exhilaration of migrating to a warm weather destination or Winter ski trip. In these paintings, we leaned into this joy and the sublime beauty of the natural world as animals and landscapes transform with light, shape and color under frost, snow and flight. Some of us here in northern Michigan are "Let's get the heck outta here!", others arrive here or stay here, experiencing the novel melting taste of snowflakes or seeking the playful depths of snow for the first time. We hope this exhibit romances you with winter as you come and go and keeps you looking on the bright side!
GOOD GROUND - It's no wonder artists and art lovers alike love the Traverse City area.

In addition to the abundant and rich subject matter in our surroundings, northwest Michigan is home to many arts and culture organizations and institutions including Interlochen Arts
Academy and the Dennos Museum. That's why we are here. It's a great place to be an artist. We hope while you are here—whether arriving for the first time, or returning back to your home front—you get a chance to max out opportunities for live music, dance, theater and art. As your portal , Cherry Capital Airport (TVC) wants to make your travel experience as welcoming and stress free as possible. And well, it's known that art has a way of doing that. This exhibit is a "testing of the waters" for development of a future art and culture program. We hope you enjoy and connect with our paintings as well as people you meet, this place, this time and be all the better. Let's take off together!” - Justin, Lindy, and Colleen

Call for Artist Proposals--The City Of Ann Arbor - Government Bicentennial Murals

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The City of Ann Arbor will celebrate its bicentennial in 2024, and as part of the celebrations, City staff are seeking artists to submit proposals for mural designs that recognize the past, present, and future of our community and celebrate 200 years of Ann Arbor! One selected artist will receive a $25,000 contract with
the City for the purchase and installation of their design on two basketball courts in City parks.

Mural design proposals due by 5 p.m. Eastern on February 5, 2024.

See comments below for link to complete information about this opportunity.

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Michigan Humanities Awards! Our annual Michigan Humanities Awards recognize and celebrate one organization and two individuals who are champions of public humanities. Awards are given in the following categories:
-Erik Jones Reading Champion Award
-Humanities Champion of the Year—Individual
-Outstanding Humanities Organization

Learn more and make a nomination here: http://tinyurl.com/47c27zt2

The MACC Minigrants Round 2 grant deadline is January 15, 5pm EST. The MACC offices will be closed for the MLK Holiday so get your questions in this week! Not all regions are offering a Round 2. Check with your Regional Service Agency before applying.

Michigan Arts and Culture Council Grants MACC provides grants to encourage, initiate and facilitate an enriched artistic, cultural and creative environment in Michigan.

Congratulations to Michigan's Fellow L Sam Zhang from the Kalamazoo Chinese Academy

Meet the second cohort of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF) program! Fifty-four leaders from communities across the country will participate in a transformative eight-month leadership development experience designed to establish multicultural leadership in the creative and cultural sector.

Curated by WESTAF and in partnership with the five other US Regional Arts Organizations (US RAOs) Arts Midwest, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Mid Atlantic Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, South Arts, the no-cost program takes place online and will provide fellows with access to specialists in the field, strategic learning objectives determined to deepen thought on anti-racist and culturally-oriented leadership practices, and national-level network and cohort building. Upon completion of the program, participants transition to alumni status and have opportunities to collaborate with the RAO in their region as advisors, funding panelists, and/or other professional capacities.

Congrats to the 2023-24 LoCF Cohort!

Meet the fellows: http://artslead.org/leaders/2023NationalFellows

COMMUNITIES TO LEAD GRASSROOTS SOLUTIONS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS

As part of our 10-year, $100 million Black Community Commitment, in partnership with Michael Jordan, we are pleased to announce the fourth round of our annual Community Grant Program, benefiting grassroots nonprofit organizations throughout the United States.

The application portal is open and will accept applications through Saturday, December 16, 2023.

The Jordan Brand Community Action over words. Explore our commitment to the Black community including investment in youth, and meet our athletes and family that are helping to end systemic racism.

Interlochen Center for the Arts announces Michigan Shakespeare Competition for High School Students. One or two student champions from each participating high school in the state of Michigan will memorize, interpret, and perform Shakespeare’s timeless monologues and sonnets for a panel of expert judges, competing for the chance to advance to the national level. Find full info here:

Love the Bard? Want to win cash prizes and scholarships? | Interlochen Center for the Arts Enter the Michigan Shakespeare Competition for High School Students, hosted by Interlochen Arts Academy.Michigan Shakespeare Competition for High School StudentsMarch 9, 2024Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI

Have questions about the State of Michigan Nonprofit Arts and Culture Relief Fund?

Join us on Zoom today anytime between 1-3pm EST for drop-in office hours to get your questions answered! No appointment needed.

MACC Office Hours - COVID Relief Grant Q&A Session
Time: Nov 28, 2023 01:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86972988469?pwd=o7sopEjIs2nv3NaqXvnSPFakRlAF9g.1

Meeting ID: 869 7298 8469
Passcode: 389955

Applications to the State of Michigan Nonprofit Arts and Culture Relief Fund (administered by MACC) are due December 13, 2023 before 5:00pm EST!

If you are a registered Michigan arts and culture 501(c)(3) nonprofit (that has been located and operating in Michigan since January 1, 2019) and you experienced pandemic-related financial loss or other economic impact between March 2, 2020 and December 31, 2022, please consider submitting an application to help recover up to $250,000 in financial hardship experienced.

An "arts and culture" nonprofit is a 501(c)(3) organization with a main charitable mission that is arts and culture related. The nonprofit must also be registered with the federal government via SAM.gov (have obtained a UEI number) and be registered to solicit funds with the Michigan Office of Attorney General.

See full guidelines including MACC staff contact information for assistance: https://bit.ly/3ubDyvy

Have questions about the State of Michigan Nonprofit Arts and Culture Relief Fund?

Join MACC staff for drop-in office hours on November 28 beginning at 1:00pm to answer any of your questions! Stop in any time during the two hour session:

MACC Office Hours - COVID Relief Grant Q&A Session

Time: Nov 28, 2023 01:00 PM - 3:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86972988469?pwd=o7sopEjIs2nv3NaqXvnSPFakRlAF9g.1

Meeting ID: 869 7298 8469
Passcode: 389955

Applications to the State of Michigan Nonprofit Arts and Culture Relief Fund (administered by MACC) are due December 13, 2023 before 5:00pm EST!

If you are a registered Michigan arts and culture 501(c)(3) nonprofit (that has been located and operating in Michigan since January 1, 2019) and you experienced pandemic-related financial loss or other economic impact between March 2, 2020 and December 31, 2022, please consider submitting an application to help recover up to $250,000 in financial hardship experienced.

An "arts and culture" nonprofit is a 501(c)(3) organization with a main charitable mission that is arts and culture related. The nonprofit must also be registered with the federal government via SAM.gov (have obtained a UEI number) and be registered to solicit funds with the Michigan Office of Attorney General.

See full guidelines including MACC staff contact information for assistance: https://bit.ly/3ubDyvy

Congratulations to the 19 Michigan organizations that have received the latest round of Arts Midwest GIG Fund awards! These $4,000 grants will support creative projects and educational events in 2024. Learn more about the funded projects:

Announcing the 2024 GIG Fund Recipients 103 Midwestern organizations have received a total of $375,000 through the 2024 GIG Fund, a grant program from Arts Midwest. These awards will help organizations present artists and educational events in their community.

Grant Opportunity, Mentoring and Leadership Development Programs, Jobs and More! MMA Weekly: Resources and Opportunities (November 20) - https://mailchi.mp/michiganmuseums/mma-weekly-11-20-2023

Applications to the State of Michigan Nonprofit Arts and Culture Relief Fund (administered by MACC) are due December 13, 2023 before 5:00pm EST!

If you are a registered Michigan arts and culture 501(c)(3) nonprofit (that has been located and operating in Michigan since January 1, 2019) and you experienced pandemic-related financial loss or other economic impact between March 2, 2020 and December 31, 2022, please consider submitting an application to help recover up to $250,000 in financial hardship experienced.

An "arts and culture" nonprofit is a 501(c)(3) organization with a main charitable mission that is arts and culture related. The nonprofit must also be registered with the federal government via SAM.gov (have obtained a UEI number) and be registered to solicit funds with the Michigan Office of Attorney General.

See full guidelines including MACC staff contact information for assistance: https://bit.ly/3ubDyvy

ArtsHERE ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.

Arts and Humanities Touring Grant applications open this Wednesday, November 15 at 9:00am, for events happening December 1, 2023-February 29, 2024! Find more information and grant guidelines here: https://tinyurl.com/bdeekc35