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Arts Midwest Invests $187,837 in Michigan

Ragamala Dance school day performances for regional K-12 students. Photo by Jesse Meria, courtesy of University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, MI.

In partnership with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Arts Midwest provides audiences across Michigan with enriching cultural experiences.

The Michigan Arts Council for and Arts Midwest Arts Midwest’s professional development activities have partnered for more than 30 years to bring served 179 individuals from 143 cultural high-quality creative experiences to Michiganders. organizations across the State of Michigan. Our partnership fosters and supports vibrant and diverse communities throughout the state. In total, Arts Midwest leveraged $70,000 in state dues to provide $187,837 in programs and services In FY18, Arts Midwest’s artistic programming between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, resulting served 18,784 youth and 23,889 adults from 28 in a 268% return on investment to the state of communities across the State of Michigan. Michigan for the 2017–2018 programming cycle.

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2018 MICHIGAN OVERVIEW

FY18 Arts Midwest Artistic Programming Serving Michigan Residents Page Program Youth Adults Cities Value

4 Arts Midwest Touring Fund 11,580 16,893 19 $64,237 Grants awarded to performing arts organizations in the state.

7 Arts Midwest World Fest 1,067 536 5 $50,000 First year of a $100,000 two-year investment in international artist residencies. 9 Arts Midwest Folkefest 1,670 522 1 $25,000 First year of a $50,000 two-year investment in residencies with artists from Nordic countries.

17 NEA Big Read 4,467 5,938 3 $40,300 Grants awarded to support innovative community reading engagements. Totals 18,784 23,889 28 $179,537

FY18 Arts Midwest Professional Development Activities Serving Michigan Cultural Organizations Page Activity Individuals Organizations Value 11 Arts Midwest Conference 47 30 - Provided professional development and critical business and networking opportunities. 12 ArtsLab 28 20 $8,300 Provided intensive organizational development and leadership training to participants. 14 Creating Connection 100 92 - Provided tools and training to organizations to ensure arts and culture are expected parts of everyday life.

18 SAA Leadership Development 4 1 - Arts Midwest provided SAA leadership with retreats, professional development, networking opportunities, monthly meetings, and attendance at national conferences.

Total 179 143 $8,300

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2018 IMPACT ACROSS MICHIGAN

Arts Midwest grants and partnerships with Michigan communities provided programming that touched the lives of thousands of individuals of all ages in both urban and rural communities.

This map details the communities reached by Arts Midwest programs in FY18.

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ARTS MIDWEST TOURING FUND

Master Class with Black Violin and Kalamazoo Public Schools orchestra students. Photo by Bethany Gauthier, courtesy of Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI.

The Arts Midwest Touring Fund provides financial support to arts organizations in the Midwest to present work by touring artists.

Arts Midwest Touring Fund engages people in meaningful experiences with the fine arts of dance, music, theater or musical theater, and other performing arts forms. When we share creative experiences, we build powerful connections with the people we are closest to, with our community and the world around us, and with ourselves.

Grants of up to $4,000 are awarded to performing arts organizations to bring professional performances to their community. Engagements feature a public performance Pre-show workshop by Ragamala Dance and community activity and reach an audience with company member with students at Beach Day limited access to the arts fostering exchange between Treatment Center in Southgate, MI. Photo by artist and community. Peter Smith, courtesy of UMS (Ann Arbor, MI).

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In FY18, Michigan audiences experienced vibrant performances—from intricate orchestral music to energetic dance— and participated in community-driven activities. In the 2017–2018 performance season, Arts Midwest Touring Fund awarded $64,237 to 25 performing arts organizations in Michigan. These activities reached 19 communities through 30 public performances and 110 engagement events.

FY18 Arts Midwest Touring Fund Grants – Michigan Congressional District Grantee City Grant Artist Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern 1 Michigan College Traverse City $2,000 Golden Dragon Acrobats 1 Crooked Tree Arts Council Petoskey $1,000 Six Appeal

1 Calumet Theatre Calumet $1,800 Eyes of Alice Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts at 1 the Michigan Technological University Houghton $2,900 LA Theatre Works Bruce Hornsby & The 1 Bay View Music Festival Petoskey $4,000 Noisemakers 1 Interlochen Center for the Arts Interlochen $3,625 Nathan Gunn and Julie Gunn David Bromberg Quintet & 1 Porcupine Mountains Music Festival Ontonagon $2,000 Band 1 Lake Superior State University Sault Ste Marie $1,100 Cahoots NI Franke Center for the Arts at Albion 3 College Albion $687 Elephant Rebellion Ilmar Gavilan and Aldo Lopez- 4 Tuba Bach Chamber Music Festival Big Rapids $1,500 Gavilan Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts at 4 Kirtland Community College Roscommon $1,600 Row "I" Productions 4 Midland Center for the Arts Midland $3,200 LA Theatre Works

5 The Whiting Flint $2,850 LA Theatre Works The Mendel Center at Lake Michigan 6 College Benton Harbor $2,000 Underwater Bubble Show 6 The Gilmore Kalamazoo $4,000 Leif Ove Andsnes Miller Auditorium at Western Michigan 6 University Kalamazoo $3,000 Black Violin 6 Michigan Festival of Sacred Music Kalamazoo $3,100 The Rose Ensemble Wharton Center for Performing Arts at 8 Michigan State University East Lansing $4,000 Dance Theatre of Harlem College of Music at Michigan State 8 University East Lansing $1,875 Fifth House Ensemble Macomb Center for the Performing Arts at 9 Macomb Community College Clinton Twp $3,000 Aquila Theatre Company 12 The Academy of Early Music Ann Arbor $2,200 Piffaro Ragamala Music and Dance 12 UMS Ann Arbor $4,000 Theatre 13 Michigan Opera Theatre Detroit $4,000 Cincinnati Ballet

14 Chamber Music Society of Detroit Detroit $3,400 Juilliard String Quartet

14 Detroit Jazz Festival Harper Woods $1,400 Kyle Eastwood Band

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While not counting this in the overall return on investment, we want to highlight the fees earned by artists from your state via Arts Midwest Touring Fund. No Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs funds were used to support these activities. The Touring Fund supported 1 projects featuring Michigan ensembles touring to other Midwest states during 2017–2018. In total, the Michigan artists earned $13,000 by participating in Touring Fund programming.

FY18 Arts Midwest Touring Fund Artists – Michigan Congressional Grantee City, State Michigan Artist Artist Fee 5 Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, IN PRISM Quartet $13,000 Indianapolis

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ARTS MIDWEST WORLD FEST

Norway’s Unni Boksasp Ensemble reached 846 youth and 342 adults in Michigan through workshops and performances like this school performance in Fenton, Michigan. Photo by George Cruze.

Arts Midwest World Fest connects small and mid-sized Midwestern communities to world cultures through week-long residencies with international musicians.

Arts Midwest World Fest’s goal is to foster an understanding of and appreciation for global uniqueness and differences. Over a two-year cycle, four global musical “The teachers were thrilled ensembles engage with communities across the Midwest through activities that include public concerts, K-12 school workshops, and community outreach to provide an opportunity for activities such as family and senior citizen workshops and master classes. their students to be able to hear Norwegian folk songs Committed to reaching communities that have limited access to high-quality from Norwegian performers international arts and education programming, Arts Midwest invests approximately —an opportunity that we $100,000 to bring this program to Michigan for the two-year cycle. Communities are responsible only for local costs like lodging, busing, concert venue expense, provided to a population local administration/marketing, and modest hospitality requirements. who would not otherwise have the chance.” Over the 2017–2019 Arts Midwest World Fest cycle, Flint, Michigan, is hosting —Loe'l Murphy, Education and four engaging educational and performance residencies featuring Manhu (China); Community Engagement Ondekoza (Japan); Sofi & the Baladis (Israel); and Unni Boksasp Ensemble Manager, Flint Cultural Center (Norway). Since the program’s inception in 2003, we have toured 28 international Corporation ensembles to the Midwest. We have brought tours to 8 partner communities (and multiple neighboring towns) in Michigan.

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Manhu (China): Fall 2017 activities – Michigan Location City Description Adults Youth Northwestern High School Flint Workshop with middle and high school students 3 21

The Whiting Flint Meet and greet with community 20 25

University of Michigan Flint Flint Workshop with college music students 33 0

Brownell Holmes STEM Academy Flint Workshop with K-5th grade students 9 111

University of Michigan Flint Flint Workshop with college First Year Experience students 57 0

Potter Elementary Flint Workshop with 1st-3rd grade students 2 15

The Whiting Flint Workshop with Kettering International Students 18 0 (Chinese speaking) Randels Elementary Flint Workshop with 1st-3rd grade students 2 26

The Whiting Flint Community Concert 50 23

Totals 194 221

Unni Boksasp Ensemble (Norway): Spring 2018 activities – Michigan Location City Description Adults Youth Gear Up 2 Lead Flint Workshop with alternative high school students 12 23

Fenton Community Schools - Ellen St. Fenton Workshop with 3-6 year olds 16 120 Campus The Whiting Flint Welcome reception 44 6

Otter Lake Elementary School Otter Lake Workshop with K-2 grade students 12 166

Columbiaville Elementary Columbiaville Workshop with 3rd-5th grade students 15 281

Marion Crouse Instructional Center Flushing Workshop for students with sever and profound 100 150 disabilities aged 2 1/2-26 The Local 432 Flint Reception and kick off of Girls Rock Flint 22 15

The Capitol Theatre Flint Public performance 76 30

Genesee Valley Regional Center Flint Workshop for incarcerated youths ages 10-17 15 45

Flint Public Library Flint Workshop with the public 30 10

Totals 342 846

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ARTS MIDWEST FOLKEFEST

Members of the Finnish musical ensemble Kardemimmit perform for students in Negaunee, Michigan. Photo by Stephen Manuszak.

Bringing traditional Nordic music to rural communities in the Upper Midwest

Arts Midwest Folkefest deepens awareness of the Scandinavian traditions, heritage, and history of the Upper Midwest through week- "Students asked about Kardemimmit’s long residencies with traditional Nordic musical ensembles. clothing, which were obviously very different from what the students wore. Beginning in fall 2017, Arts Midwest Folkefest is presenting residencies This started a great exchange about in small communities in six Midwestern states that experienced a Finnish fashion and the differences significant influx of Scandinavian immigrants during the 1800s and 1900s and bear signs of this heritage today. between how Americans and Finns dress on a daily basis. It showed that Over the 2017–2019 Arts Midwest Folkefest cycle, Marquette, the group’s visit had an impact that Michigan, is hosting two engaging educational and performance was more than simply musical but residencies that feature Kardemmimit (Finland) and Emilia Amper opened other cultural exchanges with Band (Sweden). the students.”

Through the generosity of our funders, Arts Midwest invests —Daniel Truckey, Director/Curator, Beaumier approximately $50,000 to bring this program to Michigan for the two- U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University year cycle.

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Kardemimmit (Finland): Fall 2017 activities – Michigan Location City Description Adults Youth

Negaunee Middle School Negaunee Workshop/Performance 20 450

Lakeview Elementary School Negaunee Workshop/Performance 20 400

Lakeview Elementary School Negaunee Workshops/Performances 10 200

Mather Elementary School Munising Workshop/Performance 15 250

Munising High School Munising Workshop/Performance 4 55

Munising High School Munising Workshop/Performance 4 40

Northern Michigan University Marquette Workshop/Performance 75 0

Northern Michigan University Marquette Workshop/Performance 60 0

Northern Michigan University Marquette Workshop/Performance 20 0

Bothwell Middle School Marquette Workshop/Performance 3 70

Marquette Senior High School Marquette Workshop/Performance 4 70

Marquette Senior High School Marquette Workshop/Performance 4 60

Northern Michigan University Marquette Public Performance 275 75

Northern Michigan University Marquette Reception 8 0

Totals 522 1,670

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ARTS MIDWEST CONFERENCE

The Midwest’s preeminent performing arts booking and education conference.

The only meeting of its kind in the Midwest, our professionals convened in Columbus, Ohio, from August Conference is committed to connecting arts 28–31st to network, conduct business, access in-depth administrators, strengthening the Midwest’s performing professional development sessions, experience live arts industry, and promoting the vibrant local arts scene in performances, and gain new insights into the world of the Conference city. To those ends, in 2017, Arts Midwest performing arts touring and presenting. Representatives welcomed a record number of attendees to our 30th from Michigan included 47 individuals from 30 annual Conference, totaling 1,104 individuals. Arts different arts organizations.

2017 Arts Midwest Conference Attendees – Michigan Organization City Organization City Alma Artist Booking Royal Oak Mike Green & Associates Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Summer Festival Ann Arbor Miller Auditorium Kalamazoo

Brighton Center for the Performing Brighton Musica Extraordinaria LLC Ann Arbor

Calumet Theatre Co. Calumet River Raisin Centre for the Arts Monroe

Center Stage Artists Ann Arbor Rozsa Center for the Performing Houghton

CultureSource Detroit Saugatuck Center for the Arts Saugatuck Eisenhower Dance Rochester Second Circle Productions Traverse City

Great Lakes Performing Artist Ann Arbor Smokin' Sleddog Records DeWitt

Interlochen Center for the Arts Interlochen Temple Theatre Foundation Saginaw

Kalamazoo State Theatre Kalamazoo The Berman Center for the West Bloomfield

Kirtland Center for the Performing The Mendel Center at Lake Arts Roscommon Michigan College Benton Harbor

Macomb Center for the Performing Clinton Township The Whiting Flint

McMorran Place Entertainment UMS of the University of Center Port Huron Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan Council for Arts and Wayne County Community Cultural Affairs Lansing College District Detroit

Midland Center for the Arts Midland Wharton Center for Performing East Lansing

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ARTSLAB

ArtsLab facilitated a working group from across the Upper Peninsula to develop the UP Arts and Culture Alliance and create a plan for its first few years of work. Photo from April 2017 retreat in Ironwood, by Peg Sandin.

ArtsLab strengthens the impact of arts organizations in urban and rural communities through leadership and strategy development.

ArtsLab seeks to nurture a vibrant regional arts ecosystem that ensures our cultural leaders have the skills, ideas, and mindset of adaptability and resiliency needed to thrive in a world of continuous change. Through in-depth training and peer-to-peer learning, ArtsLab cultivates a more effective and viable arts sector poised for community engagement.

To those ends, Arts Midwest invested $8,300 in Michigan ArtsLab programming benefitting 20 Michigan organizations who participated in FY18 in the following cohort.

Upper Peninsula Cultural Alliance The Upper Peninsula of Michigan boasts some of the most treasured wilderness destinations in the country, yet it experiences disinvestment and a declining population. In FY18, ArtsLab facilitated the development of The Upper Peninsula Arts and Culture Alliance to foster and promote creativity through artistic and cultural activities in the Upper Peninsula. The Alliance intends to be a hub providing informational and strategic assistance to existing and emerging organizations and individual artists and performers, as well as to encourage connections between artists, performers, audiences, businesses, and art and culture organizations to create a sense of pride and a sense of place throughout the communities of the UP.

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Upper Peninsula Cultural Alliance – Michigan Organization City Attendees Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Ann Arbor 1 Michigan Museums Association Cheboygan 1 CUPPAD Regional Commission Escanaba 2 The Bonifas Arts Center Escanaba 2 Copper Country Community Arts Council Hancock 1 International School of Art & Design, Finlandia University Hancock 1 Michigan Technological University Houghton 2 Interlochen Center for the Arts Interlochen 1 Borderland Arts Iron Mountain 1 UP Travel & Recreation Iron Mountain 1 Z Place Gallery Ironwood 2 The Historic Ironwood Theatre Ironwood 1 906 Boom Gallery Ironwood 1 Downtown Art Place Ironwood 3 Mackinac Arts Council Mackinac Island 2 DeVos Art Museum Marquette 1 Marquette Arts Commission Marquette 2 Eastern Upper Peninsula Planning Commission Sault Ste. Marie 1 Lake Superior State University Arts Center Gallery Sault Ste. Marie 1 Sault Arts Council/Alberta House Sault Ste. Marie 1

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CREATING CONNECTION A national communications and engagement effort focused on making arts and culture a more recognized, valued, and expected part of everyday life.

Creating Connection is a national movement to advance arts and culture as a recognized, valued, and expected part of our everyday lives. It is drawing on proven social change strategies to understand and communicate how arts, culture, and creative expression connect to existing, closely held public values. Arts Midwest is working with Metropolitan Group, a strategic communications agency, to launch this work in pilot communities across the country— using a combination of research, grassroots engagement, and trainings to help influence long-term changes in attitudes, behaviors, policies, and systems.

In fall 2017, Arts Midwest conducted three Creating Connection workshops in Michigan: Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Traverse City. These trainings were supported by private investment from the Frey Foundation and Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, and allowed the Arts Midwest team to share national and local research on the role and value of arts and creativity as well as support Michigan arts organizations in crafting new messaging strategies, programming approaches, and audience development initiatives that deepen community relevance.

Creating Connection Workshops – Grand Rapids, Michigan September 2017 Organization Attendees Artists Creating Together 1 Artworks 1 C.S. Mott Foundation 1 Cook Arts Center - Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities 1 Council of Michigan Foundations 3 CultureSource 1 Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park 2 Glass Art Kalamazoo 1 Grand Rapids Ballet 1 Grand Rapids Civic Theatre 2 Grand Rapids Schubert Male Chorus 1 LowellArts 1 Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs 3 Schubert Male Chorus of Grand Rapids 1 SkipDash 1 St. Cecilia Music Center 1 The Mendel Center at Lake Michigan College 2 UICA 1 West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology 3

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Creating Connection Workshops – Kalamazoo, Michigan September 2017 Organization Attendees Air Zoo 3 Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo 5 City of Kalamazoo/KCPAC 1 Council of Michigan Foundations 1 Crawlspace Theatre Productions 1 Farmers Alley Theatre 1 Gilmore Keyboard Festival 1 Irving S. Gilmore Foundation 1 Kalamazoo Civic Theatre 1 Kalamazoo College 1 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 3 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival 1 Kalamazoo Symphony 2 KRESA - Education for the Arts 1 Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation 1 Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs 1 Michigan Festival of Sacred Music 1 Michigan Municipal League 1 Stulberg International String Competition 1 Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers 1 Western Michigan University Theatre 1 WMU College of Fine Arts 1

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Creating Connection Workshops – Traverse City, Michigan September 2017 Organization Attendees Arts for All of Northern Michigan 1 Artworks Big Rapids Area Arts & Humanities 1 Blackbird Arts 1 City Opera House, Traverse City 1 Creative Chambers 1 Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology 1 Dennos Museum Center 1 Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts 2 Glen Arbor Art Association 1 Grass River Natural Area 1 Great Lakes Children's Museum 1 Interlochen Center for the Arts 2 Mackinaw City Area Arts Council 1 MCACA/Northsky Nonprofit Network & NW Michigan Arts & Culture Network 1 Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs 1 Michigan Legacy Art Park 1 Northern Lakes CMH 1 Northport Arts Association 2 Old Town Playhouse 2 Oliver Art Center 1 Ordinaryvirtues.com 1 Smithsonian American Art Museum 1 the artist development agency 1 Traverse Symphony Orchestra 1

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NEA BIG READ

NEA Big Read author Luis Alberto Urrea poses with Lansing area high school students. Photo by Sergio Keck, courtesy of Michigan State University.

An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.

Showcasing a diverse range of contemporary titles that reflect many different voices and perspectives, the NEA Big Read aims to inspire conversation and discovery. Annually, the program supports approximately 75 dynamic community reading programs, each designed around a single NEA Big Read book.

We were thrilled to present three Michigan organizations with grants totaling $40,300 to develop community-wide programs that encouraged reading and participation by diverse audiences in the 2017– 2018 NEA Big Read cycle.

NEA Big Read Activities – Michigan Congressional District Organization City Book Award 12 Dearborn Public Library Dearborn The Namesake $12,800 2 Hope College Holland When the Emperor Was Divine $13,500 8 Michigan State University East Lansing Into the Beautiful North $14,000 Totals $40,300

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LEADERSHIP Arts Midwest draws on the insight, skills, and expertise of the Midwest arts community to inform and shape our programs and to ensure that our services nurture leadership among arts organizations.

Each year Arts Midwest convenes a summit of the state arts agency executive directors representing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. In 2018, Arts Midwest expanded this summit to include a half-day training on accessibility and inclusion in the arts, creating an opportunity for accessibility coordinators and executive directors to delve into this important topic together.

Additionally, Arts Midwest hosts six bi-monthly phone calls each year for the leadership of the nine state art agencies in the region.

Through this effort, John Bracey, executive director of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, along with key staff members participate in leadership development and knowledge sharing with key professionals in the public art sector.

Leadership Activities – Michigan

Date Activity SAA Attendees Supported by Arts Midwest August 28 – 31, 2017 Arts Midwest Conference Alison Watson, Sue Carlson

October 11-13, 2017 National Assembly of State Arts Jeff Garrett, Agencies (NASAA) Alison Watson

January 25, 2018 Arts Midwest SAA Directors Summit Alison Watson

January 25, 2018 Accessibility Training Alison Watson, Jeff Garrett

January 26, 2018 Accessibility Coordinator Meeting Jeff Garrett

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

Arts Midwest is pleased to offer these programs and services to Michigan. For additional information on Arts Midwest programs and services beyond those opportunities listed in this report, please contact Chelsea Brown at 612-341-0755 or [email protected].

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