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Serving as a catalyst for community transformation through quality arts programming MICA serves as a catalyst for community transformation through quality arts programming.

2 3 he area known as Old Town is located on and supported by the Local Initiatives Support T a Native American trail along the Grand Corporation were held to frame the values, River in what is now Lansing, , identify key assets and develop a vision for which was charted and plotted by U.S. surveyors the district. A special effort was made to in 1825. The land was purchased in 1835 and 1836 engage a wide array of stakeholders from by several investors, including the land the neighborhood, including artists, property speculators James Seymour and Jacob Cooley. owners, business owners, residents, local and regional governments, the universities, historians, architects and other talents and OtherWise Art Gallery was opened in 1992 resources from around the state and country. as the organization’s headquarters. OtherWise During the visioning process, they named the showcased the works of artists from around the neighborhood Old Town, world. It hosted poetry events and for seven acknowledging its historical years was a venue for live concerts, featuring During the early 1980s young artists significance to the region the first public performances by many startup, discovered a neighborhood in The land was sold in 1845 to pioneers who and focused on developing basement and garage bands. Lansing that had the city’s highest built a sawmill and held religious services in the art, retail and creative concentration of historic buildings, a cabin. After the Michigan legislature in 1947 services sectors with an but had been mostly abandoned. In 1994 MICA produced its They began renting and buying decided to move the state capitol from emphasis on enhancing an first big music festival, the properties for studios, art galleries to Lansing the area grew rapidly. For another arts-centric community. Art & OctoberFest and in 1995 and performance space. In 1984, 100 years, the area flourished enriched with The organization also partnered with a group of these artists formed the addition with the hispanic community. But, Michigan State University's Center for its first Lansing JazzFest and the North Lansing Art Association like many American cities in the 1960’s and Community Economic Development to years later started Michigan (NLAA) which was renamed the Old 1970’s, the neighborhood began losing residents, conduct their first Community Income BluesFest. Town Business & Art Development businesses, and customers as more people moved and Expenditure Model Study (CIEM) to In 1995, MICA wrote a grant and obtained Association (OTBADA) to eventually to the suburbs. The area languished as many gain insight into the district’s income and funding from the National Trust for Historic become the Michigan Institute for storefronts, businesses, homes and buildings expenditure ‘leakages’ and begin to identify Preservation and the Local Initiatives Support Contemporary Art (MICA) with Corporation to enable Old Town to be among a mission to catalyze community became vacant and were abandoned and ways to grow and retain income. the first six urban Mainstreet communities in the transformation through the arts. boarded up. Between 1978 and 1990, artists and young . To manage the Mainstreet program, entrepreneurs started restoring many of the MICA helped start the Old Town Commercial district’s historic buildings. Association (OTCA) in 1996 and worked to obtain During the early 1990’s, visioning sessions funding from the City of Lansing and the Principal led by the Business & Art Development Shopping District to support the startup phase of Association, coordinated by MessageMakers the Mainstreet program.

4 5 During that same time and on the urging of A 501(c)3 federally tax-exempt nonprofit then Mayor David Hollister, MICA restored a organization, it has a robust volunteer base, set of three buildings, which included low and maintains stable volunteer leadership and moderate income loft apartments, a business provides programs for the benefit of the entire Awards: incubator, and offices, These buildings are now community. It is funded through the support of MICA has been a recipient of numerous awards: home for the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, sponsors, donations and grants. • Addy Awards MICA and MICA Art Gallery. For more than three decades, MICA has been producing music festivals, helping • Creative Community Award preserve and restore historic buildings, leading • Governor’s ArtServe Award community revitalization efforts, exhibiting • Michigan Association for Art Agencies Award visual artists, coordinating poetry, dance and other performances that engage, inspire, catalyze and demonstrate the vitality and value of the arts community and the vibrancy of the urban centers as a great places to play, MICA is recognized for innovative work and live. programming and is a recipient of numerous awards including the Governor’s ArtServe Award, Festival & Events Association awards, Addy awards, the Creative Community Award and many more.

MICA’s mission – to open spaces where people can come together, meet old friends, make new friends, and in the context of the arts take action to bring about positive community transformation.

6 7 MICA Art Gallery

MICA is known as an arts, performance n the 1970s and 1980s, local artists were and music event organizer, a business I attracted to the neighborhood by its historic incubator, and a community builder, structures as well as its affordability and several but it has more humble beginnings as renovated buildings to create studio spaces and a simple art gallery in a rundown urban art galleries, establishing pockets of renewal in neighborhood. the neighborhood. In 1992 the gallery was originally established as OtherWise Art Gallery by Barbara Morris At MICA Art Gallery, monthly exhibitions (a co-founder with Robert Busby of Two Doors feature emerging and established fine artists with Down Gallery) and Terry Terry. In the early an emphasis on Michigan artists who work in a 2000’s it moved across the street and changed wide range of mediums and whose work is often its name to Banyan Art Gallery and now is known experimental and include social commentary. as MICA Art Gallery. MICA Art Gallery is home to the Lansing Since 1984, MICA’s art galleries have been Poetry Club and provides a stage for Renegade a hub for community gatherings and creative Theatre, Dance Lansing, and Capital Ballet experiences. Theatre performances and is a regular meeting and training space for the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. During the annual ‘Chalk of the Town’, the gallery is host to children's art activities. The gallery is also available to rent for special gatherings such as receptions, fundraisers, graduation parties, bridal showers, meetings and more. The gallery’s exhibitions and programs in the visual arts, music, performances, film and poetry serve to educate, entertain, and inspire.

8 9 Quartet, Organissimo, Fareed Haque, Aguanko, Paul Keller Orchestra, Tony Monaco,Arlene McDaniel, On a warm summer weekend, ince 1995, during the first weekend of and streamed. Attendance at times has reached Mighty Funhouse, Etienne Charles, Elder Kelly, Michigan JazzFest is the August, the Michigan JazzFest turns Turner around 7,000. Sunny Wilkenson, Ron Newman, David Rosin, place to make new friends S Street in Lansing’s Old Town into a stage and Around 2010, MICA began a partnership with Ray Kamalay, the OtherBand, Mardra & Reggie and enjoy the winding auditorium for one of the largest, most diverse, the Jazz Alliance of Mid-Michigan (JAMM), and Thomas, Montez Coleman, Grupo Aye, T.S. Monk, melodies and complex polyrhythms of original and longest-running jazz festivals in Michigan. As features their annual award-winners at the festival. Wes Anderson, Bill Heid, Tenth World and many American music! jazz has a diverse range of styles and sub-genres, Notable performers have included: Mose others. touching nearly every culture for over 100 years, Allison, Nicole Mitchell, Eric Reed, Stanley Jordan, Michigan JazzFest also features food and the festival continues to draw the most diverse Marcus Belgrave, Straight Ahead, Planet D Nonet, craft vendors and a beverage tent called The audience of any Michigan festival. Professors of Jazz, Terrell Stafford, Francisoco Turnaround Lounge. Families bring their children Michigan JazzFeat features multiple Mora, Tumbao Bravo, Johnny O’Neal, Oquestra to the KidzBeat area to play in the Instrument stages on Turner street and in various indoor Ritmo, Ramona Collins, Tim Cunninham, Betty Petting Zoo and are given lessons from musician locations, including local nightclubs and other Joplin, Michael Kaeshammer, Los Gatos, Greater performers. In addition music workshops for Old Town venues. Performances are recorded Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Dave Sharp Worlds adults are conducted by guest performers.

10 11 ach September in Michigan’s Capital City Mandville, , Toronzo Cannon, (CABS) and offers multiple stages on the street E Turner Street becomes stage to one of James Harman, Frog & the Beeftones, and in various indoor locations, including Michigan’s biggest and longest running outdoor , W.C. Clark, Junior Watson, local nightclubs and other Old Town venues. music festivals – the Michigan BluesFest, , & the Blues Attendance at times has surpassed that of featuring such artists such as Reverend Insurgents, Big Willy, Kathleen & the Bridge Michigan JazzFest. Raven, Larry McCray, David ‘Honey Boy’ Street Band, Grove Council, Cee Cee Collins Michigan BluesFest, like JazzFest has food At Michigan BluesFest one can Edwards, Eric Culberson, Jimmie Stagger, Stan and many, many more. Multiple outdoor and and craft vendors, a beverage tent, KidzBeat groove and dance to the soulful Budzynski & 3rd Degree, Lady Champagne, indoor stages, the festival is also recorded and music workshops. sounds of heartfelt blues and even Root Doctor, Chris Canas, Sugar Ray and the and streamed. Bluetones, Jamiah Rogers, Sun Seals, Jackie Michigan BluesFest is produced with the At Michigan BluesFest one can groove and dance fall in love! Scott & the Housewreckers, Kenny Neal, Liz support of the Capitol Area Blues Society to heartfelt blues….and maybe even fall in love!

12 13 Award Winning Posters

f there’s anything anticipated as music as the music, it’s the festival Iposters. They are works of fine art, capturing the energy, excitement and emotion of the music. They’ve become collector items, have won many awards and are framed and on display in homes, offices and businesses.

Artwork by David Sherer AUGUST 7-8 OLD TOWN Tim Cunningham / Hot Club of Detroit / Rodney Whitaker Quartet Ginny Dusseau with The Truth In Jazz Orchestra / organissimo / Linda Dachtyl Trio John Douglas Quintet / Sheila Landis and Brazilian Love Affair Lansing Community College Faculty Jazz Band / The Timmy Stark Quartet Arlene McDaniel Trio / The Cooper, Hay, Van Lente Group / Lansing Area All Star Jazz Band Tracy Kash Thomas Quartet / Michael Sailors Quintet / Barons of Brass Greg Howe / Michael T. Daniels / Larry Gabriel

SPONSORS: MessageMakers, Bud Light, Adams Outdoor Advertising, WLNZ, Flagstar Bank, City Pulse, Cooley Law School, Assurant Health, VanAtta’s Greenhouse & Flower Shop, Anvil Knitwear, Ingham County Hotel/Motel Tax Fund, WDBM, Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, MIEntertainment, GoGreen! Lansing, WJZL, MSU Federal Credit Union, Schupan Recycling, Lansing 150, Pork Posse, Tim Hortons, Dart Foundation, SGA, John Addis, DEAN Transportation, WVIC, Perspective2, M&M Distributing, Irwin Union Bank, Liquid Web-Gregg Hill, BRD Printing, MSU College of Music Jazz Studies Area, Marshall Music, Board of Water & Light, City of Lansing, Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C., CiesaDesign, Old Town Commercial Association Also: Music Workshops, Ethnic Food, Beverage Tent, Vendors & More! For info: 517-371-4600 / jazzlansing.com FREE MUSIC! Produced by Old Town Business & Art Development Association. Programs subject to change. Made possible with the support of:

Michigan Institute

Mayor of Contemporary Art Virg Bernero Old Town Business & Art Development Association is an equal opportunity employer and provides programs and services without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex or handicap.

3 STAGES KIDZBEAT AREA BEVERAGE TENT ETHNIC FOOD

2002OldTown Illustration by Tim Whalen corner of Turner and Grand River Fri., Sept. 21, 5pm-12am • Sat., Sept. 22, 2pm-12am FREE Music! Also: Music Clinics, Ethnic Food, Beverage Tent, Vendors & More! On the streets of Old Town (Turner St. and E. Grand River Ave.) Lansing BLUES, BREWS, Reverend Raven / Harper / Smokin’ Joe Kubek October 4-5 FOOD & FUN Root Doctor / Messing with the Kidz / 6 Hands Down Jan James Josh Boyd and the VIP Band / Frog and the Beeftones Old Town Lansing Those Delta Rythym Kings / Lansing Showcase Revue Son Seales Old Town Blues Band / Jan James / Stan Budzynski Band Eddie Shaw & Kathleen and the Blues Junkies / Mike Espy with Yakity Yak the Wolf Gang Mojo Deville Root Doctor sponsored in part by: Automatic SEPT. 18-19 LANSING Message Makers Blues Band Kenny Neal / RJ’s Detroit Blues Revue: Featuring Alberta Adams, Johnnie Bassett, Group 230 • WMMQ September 15-16 Sir Mack Rice & RJ Spangler / James Armstrong / Teeny Tucker / Biscuit Miller & The Mix MICHIGANBLUESFEST.COM • 517.371.4600 • ON TURNER STREET IN “OLD TOWN” LANSING WLNZ • Barbara Morris Junior Valentine Steppin’ In It / George Bedard / Root Doctor / Stan Budzynski & 3rd Degree Otherwise Gallery • WDBM and the All Stars KAREN LOVELY • LIL’ ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS • CHRIS CANAS BAND • WAR & TREATY • GROOVE COUNCIL The Matt Besey Band / Mike Skory / Bad Gravy Blues Jam Showcase GREG NAGY W/ RAY GOODMAN • TWYLA BIRDSONG • JIM SHANEBERGER BAND • MAGGIE MCCABE BAND Dan Henry Distributing 3 STAGES • BEVERAGE TENT • MUSIC CLINIC • KIDZBEAT AREA • ETHNIC FOOD & CRAFT VENDORS • RIVERTAXI & BOAT RIDES FROG & THE BEEFTONES • GINA GARNER & CALLING DR HOWARD • STAN BUDZYNSKI & 3RD DEGREE • KATHLEEN BOLTHOUSE Women, Be Wise: The Capital City’s First Ladies of Blues / everlovingmind City of Lansing • ALLTELL Jump Cats Champagne & The Motor City Blues Crew / Big Bill & The Blues Ambassadors MICHIGANBLUESFEST.COM • 517.371.4600 • TURNER ST. AT E. GRAND RIVER AVE. IN “OLD TOWN” LANSING, MICHIGAN PRODUCED BY: FOUNDING SPONSORS: SPONSORED BY: Skory Auto Sound Centers Also: Harmonica For Kids, West Michigan Blues Society’s Blues In The Schools UrbanBeat Doug Beckman Event Center SPONSORS: MessageMakers, Bud Light, Adams Outdoor Advertising, WLNZ, Flagstar Bank, City Pulse, Cooley Law School, VanAtta’s Greenhouse & Flower Shop, Anvil Knitwear, Ingham County Hotel/Motel Tax Fund, WDBM, Old Town Main Street Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, MIEntertainment, WJXQ Q106 FM, WMMQ, WQTX, GoGreen! Lansing, WJZL, MSU Federal Credit Union, Schupan Recycling, Lansing 150, Pork Posse, Tim Hortons, Dart Foundation, SGA, John Addis, SEPT. 16-17, 2016 poster credits: DEAN Transportation, WVIC, Perspective2, M&M Distributing, Irwin Union Bank, Liquid Web-Gregg Hill, BRD Printing, MSU College of Music Jazz Studies Area, Marshall Music, Board of Water & Light, City of Lansing, CiesaDesign, WILX TV 10 • WLAJ TV 53 • WLNS TV 6 • NEWBY TEAS • RAMADA • MARSHALL MUSIC • BUDDIES GRILL • SIMPLIFIED ACCOUNTING • PLANT PROFESSIONALS Artist: Barbara Morris Capital Area Blues Society, Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C., Old Town Commercial Association Design: Group 230 Delta Printing Company DEACON EARL & THE CONGREGATION • MARY FLOWER Printing: Delta Printing Company, Inc. Imanaya Printed on: paper available from Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA) is a 501(C)3 nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for community development through quality arts programming. Also: Music Workshops, Ethnic Food, Beverage Tent, Vendors & More! Paper Company Central Michigan Paper Company This event is supported in part by Downtown Lansing, Inc., the City of Lansing, and by funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the TEE DEE YOUNG • MARTILLA SANDERS & GEE-O • DANIELLE NICOLE For more information: 517-371-3600 or oldtownbluesfest.com National Endowment for the Arts. Program subject to change. Printing by BRD Printing, Inc. Artwork by Dennis Preston. Poster design by MessageMakers. For info: 517-371-4600 / oldtownbluesfest.com Ingham County Hotel/Motel Tax Fund FREE MUSIC! Produced by Old Town Business & Art Development Association. Programs subject to change. THE BEAR BAND • KATHY ENGIN & STEVE FRAREY • HANNAH ROSE and THE GRAVETONES Presenting Sponsors: Adams Outdoor Advertising • Thomas M. Cooley Law School • Produced Made possible with the support of: Flagstar Bank • Message Makers • Lexus of Lansing • L&L Food Centers • MSU Federal KANE and STEELE • OUT OF FAVOR BOYS • CEE CEE COLLINS • DAVID GERALD BAND produced by Old Town Business and Art Development Association sponsored by WMMQ Credit Union • First Creative Services • Ingham County Hotel/Motel Tax Fund • Van Atta’s by Old Town Michigan Institute BOBBY MURRAY PRESENTS THE MUSIC OF Greenhouse & Flower Shop • Skory Wireless & Auto Sound • Capital Area Blues Society Business & Art of Contemporary Art Mayor 517.371.4600 • www.oldtownarts.org Supporting Sponsors: Arialink • BRD Printing • Cathey Company • City of Lansing • City Old Town Business & Art Development Association is an equal opportunity employer and provides PRODUCED BY: FOUNDING SPONSORS: SPONSORED BY: programs and services without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex or handicap. Pulse • Clark Hill PLC •Dan Henry • Dennis Preston • Donovan & Smith • • Development Virg Bernero Krispy Kreme • Lansing Board of Water and Light • Lansing Popcorn Co. • Lopez & Associates

Association a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com • Marshall Music • On The Grand Condominiums • Pablos Panaderia • Pork Posse • The Dart Foundation • The New Citizen’s Press • WDBM 88.9 FM • WFMK 99.1 FM • WJIM 1240 ADDITIONAL SPONSORS: AM • WKAR 90.5 FM • WLAJ ABC 53 • WMMQ 94.9 FM • WSYM Fox 47 • WVFN 730 AM Programs subject to change. CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION • ADAMS OUTDOOR • DBI INVERVE MARKETING & WEB • METRO MARINAS • MSU FEDERAL CREDIT UNION • DAVID ZYNDA JAZZ ALLIANCE OF MID-MICHIGAN • WILX TV 10 • WLAJ TV 53 • WLNS TV 6

The Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA) is a 501(C)3 nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for community development through quality arts programming. Supported in part by funding from the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, Ingham County, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, City of Lansing and Downtown Lansing Inc. Program subject to change. Printing by BRD Printing, Inc. Poster Design by InVerve Marketing & Web.

14 15 WKAR Michigan JazzFest and Michigan BluesFest Root Doctor, Lowdown Brass Band, Nicky T & BackStage Pass programs have featured The the Snake Charmers, Frog and the Beeftones, Verve Pipe, Organissimo, Larry McCray, Phil Thornetta Davis, Tosha Owens, Jamiah Rogers, Denny, Rodney Whitaker Quartet, Planet D Kathleen Murray & the Groove Council, Grady Hall Nonet, Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, & the Disciples of Funk, Southern Avenue, Kathleen The Chenille Sisters, The Lash, George Delancy, & the Bridge Street Band, and many others.

ackStage Pass is a TV program featuring live Bperformances by festival musicians and began in 2008. It is produced and broadcast by public WKAR-TV, in coordination with MICA, and through the support of MessageMakers. It includes interviews where artists reveal the inspiration behind their music and has been both live-streamed and broadcast in 100 public television markets across the United States.

16 17 Poetry, Theater, & Dance Programming

MICA collaborates with other arts organizations providing meeting and performance space for poetry, theatre, dance and film.

he Lansing Poetry Club, brings writers, of Love Poetry. Held on the weekend T poets and literature lovers together by before Valentine’s Day, this event features presenting poetry performances, workshops, poetry, music and theatrical arts. and literacy events at MICA Art Gallery. The The annual Renegade Theatre Poetry Club partners with other literary and Festival brings theatre troupes together civic organizations to engage the community to present a free festival of new and with poetry, including the Lansing Poet original plays during the summer. The Laureate Project and the Lansing Sidewalk Renegade Theatre Festival conducts Poetry Project. performances at MICA Art Gallery For nearly 20 years, MICA has produced and other venues in Old Town and the the annual Burning Desires: An Afternoon Lansing area.

DANCE Lansing: A Community Dance Project regularly performs a showcase of modern and contemporary dance at MICA Gallery each fall and holds special performances during the Michigan BluesFest and Michigan JazzFest. Performances include discussions with the dancers and choreographers. Capital Ballet Theatre (formerly Children's Ballet Theatre), where young dancers make their first public performance, is often held at MICA Gallery as well as at MICA’s music festivals.

18 19 Visioning The Community Income and Expenditure Model (ciem) Charettes Study

etween 1990-1993, visioning rom 1992-1995, MICA assisted B‘charrettes’, led by Terry Terry of F with a unique study, called the MessageMakers and Susan Christian of Community Income and Expenditure the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Model (CIEM) that Michigan State were held to frame the values, identify University's Center for Community key assets and develop a vision for the Economic Development was developing. district. A special effort was made to Led by Rex LaMore, Rene engage a wide array of stakeholders Rosenbaum, and John Melcher, the from the neighborhood, including artists, study was developed to help identify property owners, business owners, and how income and expenditures flow in residents, as well as local and regional and out of a community. governments, the universities, historians, The results showed that more income architects and other talents and resources was flowing out of Old Town to other from around the state and country. areas in the region and that a new mix of These sessions provided the businesses and a return of urban living foundation and vision for MICA’s efforts, would be needed to shift the economy stimulated positive participation and of the district. partnerships, and launched a wave of new Thirty years later, the diversity businesses and building renovations that and robustness of the district, with reached a critical mass that put Old Town its high concentration of creative on the map as it became a model for the service companies, boutiques, unique State of Michigan’s Mainstreet program. restaurants and nightclubs, attest to a vibrancy triggered by artists. MICA is currently seeking support to Charrettes, i.e.meetings where many different people come together to work on a plan for a future replicate the study in order to illustrate goal, have been used by designers and urban planners since the 19th century. Students at the École the economic development value of art des Beaux-Arts in Paris would feverishly work on design problems right up until their instructor’s and artists. cart or charette was rolled out to gather their work.

20 21 Second Shift TV Documentary Turner Park Place When General Motors prepared to close MICA, along with the creative team of facilities in Lansing, an unlikely coalition of MessageMakers and the leadership of former leaders from government, business, labor, MICA board members Ray Tadgerson and David education, and other sectors of the community Hollister (then Lansing mayor) and Christine worked together to convince the auto manufacturer Hollister produced the hour-long Emmy- to not only stay, but also invest over one billion nominated documentary Second Shift: From n 1995, Mayor David Hollister the CityPulse newspaper and Control dollars to build new state-of-the-art automobile Crisis to Collaboration to tell how this successful I directed Emil Winnaker, Director Room Technologies/Arialink/LightSpeed, plants in the region. regional collaboration created a ‘second shift’ of Neighborhood and Community an internet service provider. for the community. Vehicles built in Development to ask MICA to restore Today, Turner Park Place houses the Lansing have won numerous awards, three empty, run-down properties – Arts Council of Greater Lansing, MICA including the prestigious North 1208, 1210 and 1212 Turner Street – in the offices, MICA Art Gallery, and Mother American Car of the Year. heart of Old Town. Once storefronts & Earth Baby Boutique, an eco-friendly The TV program was broadcast on with living space above, the buildings children’s specialty shop. The loft American public television stations and were empty and boarded up. apartments provide low and moderate- is available on DVD through Amazon. Through Winnacker’s guidance and income housing. MICA has also begun to develop a with the use of Historic Tax Credits, curriculum to teach the collaboration the support of the Lansing Economic model featured in the documentary to Development Corporation, the community organizers, municipalities, Michigan State Housing Development chambers of commerce and those Authority (MSHDA) and others, MICA seeking MBA and MPA degrees. restored the property, which was then named Turner Park Place, This project served as a model, anchor and spark for the redevelopment of many other buildings by early urban pioneers. Over the years, these properties have also served as incubators for several start-up organizations, such as

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