Established in 1991 to preserve and present African and African-American cultural arts traditions, the Carr Center (as the Arts League of Michigan is now known) has evolved into a multidisciplinary arts hub. This grant provides the organization resources to undergo a strategic planning process and support key capacity needs. View Website

826michigan – serving more than 3,200 school-age youth in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit – is part of a national network with chapters in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington D.C., all working to inspire confident and skillful young writers with the help of adult volunteers. This grant will support 826michigan’s Detroit expansion plans, including a new location in Eastern Market. View Website

This grant provides start-up capital for the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture & Entrepreneurship to complete its initial set of projects, including funding for the city’s only COVID-19 artist relief fund.

This grant supports the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) office at the College for Creative Studies. KAID contributes to the vibrancy of Detroit communities by awarding and supporting the work of artists in the tri-county region, including the delivery of professional development programs and COVID-19 relief funding.

This grant will renew general operating support for Design Core Detroit to position Detroit as a global source of creative talent, to strengthen and promote Detroit's design-driven businesses, and further support the use of inclusive design practices in Detroit to drive inclusive growth. View Website

This grant supports the establishment of the Detroit Youth Choir and Performance Arts Company (DYC) Agency Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to ensure the long-term financial stability of the DYC. View Website

This grant supports the "Everybody VS COVID-19" awareness campaign and digital unity festival to increase public awareness in regards to health and safety, elevate the importance of filling out the Census, and provide greater access to City resources in response to the COVID-19 crisis, all while celebrating the arts and investing in local businesses and vendors. View Website

This grant provides project support to Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all. View Website

This two-year grant provides project support to Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all.  Culture Source will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

This grant seeks to provide general operating support for CultureSource as the key intermediary resourcing both artists and arts and culture organizations in metropolitan Detroit. View Website

This grant supports the Black Arts Fund at CultureSource to provide financial, social and knowledge capital to Black cultural workers and to advance racial equity in Detroit’s arts and culture sector. View Website

This grant seeks to provide funding to CultureSource for the three-year implementation of key programmatic functions of the Detroit Arts Support initiative (DAS). View Website

This grant will support Concert of Colors: Detroit Diversity Festival to positively promote Detroit and its local artistic talent while creating professional opportunities for artists of color and accessible arts programming for all. Culture Source will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant. View Website

This grant seeks to provide general operating support for CultureSource as the key intermediary resourcing both artists and arts and culture organizations in metropolitan Detroit. Since 2007, CultureSource has served as an intermediary organization that advances the work of arts and cultural organizations in Southeast Michigan.

This grant seeks to support the sustainability and growth of the Detroit Historical Society (DHS), the city’s foremost history-preserving institution. View Website

This grant supports Years 14 and 15 of the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program as well as professional development for Year 14 Fellows. View Website

This general operating support grant will enable the Detroit Historical Society (DHS) to sustain operations and celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary. Kresge support will provide the essential bridge funding needed to maintain the current exhibitions, community programming, and collections care and management activities until the organization can move forward with a millage bid planned for 2024 in partnership with the Charles H. Wright Museum for African-American History. Part of this grant will also sponsor Detroit Through the Decades 2023, an event to celebrate the Society’s 100th anniversary. View Website

This grant will support predevelopment costs for expanding the Music Hall Center for Performing Arts (Music Hall) as an iconic cultural gateway to the historic Paradise Valley business and entertainment district in the former Black Bottom neighborhood. The project is a collaboration with the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan to double Music Hall performance space and musical education space and, through its architectural redesign, create an iconic entrance to honor the history of the former Black Bottom residential area that was raised for urban renewal in 1959 to establish the I-375 freeway. View Website

Funds from this grant support the Kresge Eminent Artist Award, 10 Kresge Artist Fellowships and five Gilda Awards in each of Year 16 (2023) and Year 17 (2024) of the Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program and professional development for Year 16 Fellows. View Website

This grant supports the community programming that will accompany the James Barnor Retrospective, a five-month exhibition showcasing for the first time in the United States the work of this British-Ghanaian photographer whose career spans more than six decades. View Website