Dingell Applauds $38,000 in NEA Funding for Dearborn & Ann Arbor Organizations
DEARBORN, MI – May 6, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today applauded the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for awarding three grants totaling $38,000 to community art projects in Dearborn and Ann Arbor.
“An investment in the arts is an investment in the cultural and economic vitality of our communities,” said Dingell. “I am so pleased that the 12th District is receiving this funding to celebrate our diverse ethnic heritage, support our growing arts community, and help extend the reach of the arts to every corner of our region.”
The grants are awarded through the NEA’s Art Works and State and Regional Partnership grant categories.
A list of the organizations receiving funding is below.
City of Dearborn – $10,000
The award will support the development of an artist-in-residence unit in the City Hall Artspace Lofts and related community engagement and outreach. Facilitated by Artspace Projects, Inc., the project will include all design stages for the renovation and adaptive reuse of a unit in the concourse of the existing Dearborn City Hall as part of a larger development of cultural facilities and space for artists and arts organizations, including the Arab American National Museum. The unit will also provide space for other underserved artistic communities and help anchor an economically challenged neighborhood of Dearborn.
Community Action Network, Ann Arbor – $10,000
Working in partnership with the Bryant Community Center and the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission, artist and designer Nick Tobier will create work that will function as wayfinding markers placed near the trails in the Arbor Oaks Park.
Kerrytown Concert House, Inc., Ann Arbor – $18,000
The award will support the World At the Edge concert series, which will include concerts at the Kerrytown Concert House featuring artists who will perform jazz-based works influenced by their multicultural or international ethnic heritage. Repeat performances are planned to take place at partner organizations’ venues, including the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn.
