Through the Michigan Arts & Culture Council (MACC) Minigrant Program, LowellArts granted awards of $34,500 for ARTS PROJECTS to sixteen local arts and cultural organizations and $9,000 for PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT to six organizations and five artists.
LowellArts serves as one of the regional regranting agencies for the MACC for the counties of Barry, Ionia, Kent, Lake, Mecosta, Montcalm, Newaygo and Osceola.
For the Fiscal Year 2024 LowellArts received thirty grant applications for ARTS PROJECTS, with a total of $107,326 in requests and $34,500 awarded. Organizations could request up to $4,000 for locally developed, high quality arts and cultural projects, which are special opportunities to address local arts and cultural needs and increase public access to arts and culture. These grants support a broad range of artistic expression from all cultures through projects which preserve, produce or present traditional or contemporary arts and culture and arts education.
The following twenty-two organizations received ARTS PROJECTS awards:
ORGANIZATION
Big Rapids Festival of the Arts
Croton Township Library
Cultivate Arts and Education
DisArt
Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp
Genevieve and Donald’s Gilmore Foundation
Grand Rapids Swing Dance
Grand River Watershed Arts and Music Council Kent
Hope Network – Big Rapids
Lake County Historical Society
Mecosta Osceola Intermediate School District
Newaygo Area District Library
Project ESME
Rockford Community Orchestra
San Juan Diego Academy
Sparta Area Schools
Sparta Community Works
The Vagrancy
Vox GR
West Michigan Bluegrass Festival
West Michigan Flute Association
Wyoming Public Schools
In addition, LowellArts received eighteen grant application for PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, with a total of $24,230 in requests and $9,000 awarded. Organizations and professional artists could ask for up to $1,500 to support a variety of nonprofit organizational and individual needs, which strengthen the capacity of the organization or artist. These dollars can be used to attend conferences, workshops, seminars or to hire short-term consultants.
The following twelve organizations / artists received PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT awards:
ORGANIZATION / ARTIST
Alby Blazo – Artist
Arts Rockford
Danielle Wyckoff – Artist
DisArt
Grand Rapids Cable Access Center
Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus
Lowell Area Historical Museum
Lowell Area Schools
Mandy Cano Villalobos – Artist
Shannon Pinkster – Artist
Vox GR
West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology
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LowellArts administers these grants through a regranting program through the Michigan Arts & Culture Council. The State of Michigan Minigrant Program is a partnership between the MACC and fifteen regional re-granting agencies throughout the state.