News & Views New ArtPlace America report explores building community wealth through arts, culture and equitable development January 13, 2021 In December 2020, ArtPlace America partnered with Common Future to release a new report in the economic development research sector titled “Building Community Wealth: The Role of Arts and Culture in Equitable Economic Development.” The paper serves as a field scan of Creative Placemaking that summarizes key trends in economic…
News & Views Case study details how Detroit nonprofits collaborated to support young children and families — despite COVID February 7, 2023 For four years ending in 2022, the nine nonprofits in the Detroit Early Childhood Education Support Initiative worked with and on behalf of over 100 early childhood centers through whole child and the whole family programs ranging from healthy living and nutrition, creative learning and literacy, access to health and…
News & Views Q&A: Deep Center fuels Savannah’s youth to use writing, arts, culture to improve community health October 11, 2022 Our community-based partners are applying culture and creativity to their efforts to advance the health and wellbeing of residents. In the Q&A below, Louise Tremblay, interim executive director of the Deep Center, discusses her organization’s approach to use writing, cultural production and art as platforms to fuel the creative fire…
News & Views Smith: Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program refines its funding focus areas, reflects on investments March 5, 2024 This commentary is adapted from the February edition of ReFrame. ReStore. ReImagine., the Kresge Arts & Culture Program’s newsletter. Sign up for it and other Kresge newsletters here. As a national funder that supports place-based initiatives, Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program positions culture and creativity as drivers of more just…
News & Views City of Detroit kicks off Black History Month celebration with Kresge’s support February 1, 2021 Detroit today kicks off a weeklong celebration of Black history and Black culture and a yearlong initiative to shine a spotlight on the city’s creative community while working to support that community as it struggles to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Both the Black History Month kick-off and the…
News & Views Kresge Foundation awards $450,000 in fellowships to Detroit area visual artists June 30, 2009 18 artists receive $25,000 each. TROY, Mich. – The Kresge Foundation today awards the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowships, each with an unrestricted stipend of $25,000, to 18 metropolitan Detroit visual artists. The Fellowships are the first of its kind to be devoted exclusively to artists in the tri-county area (Wayne,…
News & Views Kresge Arts & Culture, Health teams launch food-oriented grant opportunity November 12, 2015 Food-oriented initiatives that contribute to economic revitalization, cultural expression and health in low-income communities are eligible for a new grant opportunity announced by the Kresge Foundation today. Kresge will award up to 20 planning grants of up to $75,000 each in 2016 as part of the initiative “Fresh, Local & Equitable:…
News & Views Summer at Kresge 2022: Meet Arts & Culture Program Intern Mel Liu July 21, 2022 Arts & Culture intern to focus on Creative Placemaking and policy support for arts and culture This year marks the seventh year of The Kresge Foundation’s summer internship program, during which a cohort of interns work for the foundation for approximately 10 weeks. During their time at the foundation, interns…
Resource Art X Detroit: Why art matters April 11, 2011 Art X Detroit demonstrates why the arts are so powerful in this time and place; makes connections across the past, the present and the future; and views our community through a lens that substitutes for a tired and incomplete view of a city in decline a fresh, unexpected view of…