News & Views 2014 Eminent Artist Bill Rauhauser celebrated in monograph October 3, 2014 Publication surveys life and work of photographer who chronicled streets of Detroit. Kresge President Rip Rapson on Thursday presented the foundation’s 2014 Eminent Artist with a commemorative monograph celebrating his life and work. Bill Rauhauser, an iconic Detroit photographer and educator, received the monograph at the Virgil Carr Center, in…
Resource Bill Rauhauser: 2014 Kresge Eminent Artist October 2, 2014 A monograph on the life and work of Bill Rauhauser, dean of Detroit’s street photographers, educator and the 2014 Kresge Eminent Artist (PDF). Prepared and published by The Kresge Foundation (2014). Also: A video highlighting his career
News & Views Rip Rapson speech details lessons learned from Detroit’s M-1 Light Rail success September 24, 2014 Rail~Volution address details principles for integrating transit in American communities Kresge CEO Rip Rapson discussed the challenges and opportunities facing municipal transit in a recent address at the Rail-Volution conference in Minneapolis. Speaking to a crowd of urban planners, transit and economic development professionals, city and other officials in September,…
Resource How did Detroit and light-rail transit appear in the same sentence? A case study and some implications September 23, 2014 Detroit’s grand adventure in creating a light-rail system gives rise to a set of principles that speaks to the kind of transit our country will need to accommodate changing demographics, growing economic uncertainties and shifting forms of urbanization. (Address to the Rail~Volution annual conference, in Minneapolis.)
Resource Detroit: The sharp edge of innovation September 19, 2014 Detroit is in the midst of profound change – working at the sharp edge of innovation because its very survival depends on it. And The Kresge Foundation, whose deep roots in the city go back 90 years, is using a very different kind of thinking to help the city re-imagine…
Resource Detroit: The sharp edge of innovation September 19, 2014 Good morning. Thank you for participating in such an historic event – one that will fortify and help accelerate the trajectory of renewal so in evidence over the last three days. For my part in this welcome-back, I want to endorse the notion of a community in the midst of…
Resource Make your community a healthy place September 10, 2014 Our Health Program provided funding for the 2012 public television miniseries “Designing Healthy Communities,” hosted by Dr. Richard Jackson, a public health advocate who in recent years has focused on the man-made environment. The series highlights the ways the built environment – the spaces where we live, work and play…
News & Views 2014 Kresge Artist Fellows reflect Detroit’s vibrant artistic communities June 26, 2014 Eighteen from tri-county area receive $25,000 awards for artistic vision, creative excellence. Seventeen metropolitan Detroit artists and one collective have been awarded Kresge Artist Fellowships for 2014. Each of the 18 fellowships, for artists working in dance/music and a new theater/film category, includes an unrestricted prize of $25,000 to reward…
Resource New thinking is transforming Detroit June 25, 2014 In public transit, in entrepreneurialism and in land use, The Kresge Foundation and its partners are using a different kind of thinking to help Detroit re-imagine its future. (Remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative America 2014 conference’s “Local Laboratories: Equitable Transformation in America’s Communities” session.) Detroit. It’s a word that…