Live Arts and Film & Music Take Center Stage In This Year’s Kresge Award Cycle
Thirty-one Detroit subway artists will share $ 550,000 in the Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Emerging Artist Awards. This may interest you : Danette Mitchell: The Power and Promise of Black Music. The awards were announced today by the Kresge Arts office in Detroit located at the College for Creative Studies, which manages the organization on behalf of the Kresge Foundation.
The 14th group of award winners consists of 15 Kresge Artist Fellowships in Film & amp; Music and 5 Kresge Artist Fellowships in Live Arts (which includes one collaborating duo), as well as 7 Guild Award winners in Film & amp; Music and 3 in Live Arts. (For the first time, both the Fellowships and Gilda Awards were split between two categories – Live Art and Film & Music – based on the number of entries received in each category, not 10 awards in each.)
Since 2008, Kresge Arts in Detroit has awarded more than $ 7.36 million directly to artists from three counties (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb) through 14 Kresge Eminent Artist Awards ($ 50,000 each), $ 258 Kresge Artist Fellowships ($ 25,000 each) ), and 25,000 Gil. Prizes ($ 5,000 each).
“The grand discovery of the one-year winners of the Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Awards has become something like a summer ceremony in Detroit. Many of us find confirmation of the artists on our radar screen – and more importantly, we’ve met many new artists who are leaving their mark on vibrant city art and cultural scenes, ”said Kresge President and CEO Rip Rapson.
“These are 31 artists we can look forward to seeing, hearing and experiencing in the months and years to come thanks to this program that supports and elevates artists individually. But at least it is equally important that these artists remind us of the collective contribution of our artistic community to a sense of our cultural roots and our future possibilities. ”
The 2022 cohort ranges from rising practitioners to celebrated veterans. Selection criteria for Kresge Artist Fellowships include a proven history of artistic achievement and high-quality work, potential for growth and advancement in an artistic career, and potential to reflect, enhance, or impact communities within metropolitan Detroit. Award winners are selected by panels of local and national practicing artists, in their respective disciplines, over several months and numerous rounds of review (see full list of panelists below).
“This year’s powerful group of creatives from Detroit reflects dynamic innovation, historical memory and the importance of creating transformative spiritual experiences,” said the image maker, cultural curator, activist and 2022 Film & Music panelist Piper Carter. “With a commitment to community, the Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Awards recognize the advancement of artistic craft and purposeful ideas needed in and for our world at this time.”
Along with a no-strings-attached $25,000 award, Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients receive a customized professional development experience that provides skill-building, networking, promotion and coaching opportunities. Produced by Detroit-based Kresge Arts, the offerings are created and delivered in collaboration with artists and arts and cultural organizations representing local and national
perspectives. Within the catalog of offerings, fellows are encouraged to determine what best fits their goals and definitions of success. Gilda Award winners are invited to participate in most professional development opportunities.
Kresge Arts in Detroit will also continue its commissioned film series, which connects Fellows with local filmmakers to create broad, interpretive film short films depicting Fellows ’artistic practices. Short videos of individual artists are available online at KresgeArtsinDetroit.org and Vimeo. The 2021 films premiered on Detroit Public Television – on TV and online – and are now circulating through film festivals and artists ’websites. The 2022 films will be online next spring.
“Creativity is an essential component of society locally, nationally and globally and our world needs the transformative power of art, now more than ever,” said College of Creative Studies President Don Tuski. “Paying tribute and investing in this group of Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners ensures the ongoing contribution of these artists to our cultural community and beyond, and that is why CCS could not be more proud.”
FILM & MUSIC FELLOWS
Black Milk, musical composition and performance This may interest you : School of Music, Theater, and Dance.
Deidre D.S.SENSE Smith, Performance Art
But Allan Colding, musical performance
Hadassah GreenSky, Interdisciplinary work
Queen Gabby, dance and choreography
Demario Dotson, Interdisciplinary Work
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Akhnek Kenneth Green, Sound Arts
Michael Ibrahim, Musical Composition and Performance
De’Sean Jones, Musical Composition and Performance
KESSWA, Interdisciplinary work
Tammy Lakkis, Musical Composition and Performance
Theo Parrish, Musical Composition and Performance
Jaribu Shahid, Musical Composition and Performance
* Summer Like The Season, Musical Composition and
Kaleigh Wilder, Musical Performance
* Summer Like The Season and the collaborating duo Thank You So Much For Coming previously won the Gilda Awards 2020.
“The 2022 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners demonstrate that Detroit‘s reputation as an unparalleled creative hub is well-deserved. Together, this year’s cohort will receive $550,000 with no strings attached. The freedom inherent in these awards ensures that Detroit artists can continue to guide us through grief, gather us in celebration, and light the way to a brighter future,” said Kresge Arts Detroit Director Christina deRoos.
The Gilda Awards are $5,000 awards for emerging artists, named to honor the legacy of Gilda Snowden (1954–2014) as a mentor and champion of emerging artists in metro Detroit. Recipients are selected from among applicants for the 2022 Kresge Artist Fellowships. The Guild Awards recognize artists who are early in their artistic careers, who are on the move, and who demonstrate exceptional potential through creative risk-taking and pushing the boundaries of their chosen art form.
GILDA AWARDS IN FILM & MUSIC
Natasha Beste, Interdisciplinary work Read also : Arts in the Park Continues to Bring Arts and Cultural Performances to Bandshell This Summer.
Jeremy Brockman, film director
Joel Fluent Greene, Performance Art
Detroit Bureau of Sound, Music Composition and
Nova Zaii, Musical composition and performance
2022 LIVE ARTS PANELISTS
Shawntai Brown, Playwright; poet; self-taught artist; co-host and content co-producer for Woman Crush Everyday; co-creator with Black LGBT+ Plays
Zlatko Ćosić, interdisciplinary video artist; owner of Eye Production; professor at Webster University Mary Mar, performer, Hardcore Detroit and Mama2; owner, BGIRL MAMA doo; studio manager and instructor, Next Step Broadway
Aimee L. McCoy, director; theater director; manufacturer; director and co-artistic director of The Artizen Company; Director of Membership for Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Arien Wilkerson, choreographer; dancer; filmmaker; director; manufacturer; founder of TNMOT AZTRO PERFORMANCE ART AND DANCE INSTALLATION
2022 MOVIE & MUSIC PANELISTS
Piper Carter, Image Maker; cultural curator; activist
Michael Boyce Gillespie, Associate Professor of Film, The City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Mike Khoury, composer; musician; curator; researcher; Entropy Stereo Recordings director Brian Kirkbride, composer; artist
Suzanne Kite, composer; visual artist; performance artist
“I was deeply impressed by the commitment of the organization and my fellow panelists during this selection process. The care and attention that Kresge Arts in Detroit pays to equality and diversity, to challenging institutional and personal prejudices, is enormous, ”said Film & amp; Music panelist, composer and artist, Brian Kirkbride. “As a panel, we were fierce advocates of candidates we trusted, but we also had the humility and openness to learn from each other to select the best cohort of Kresge Artist Fellows we could. I am grateful to have experienced it. ”
An intimate gathering for the winners will be held in July, followed by the release of the recorded event. The program will include performances by Kris Johnson Group (led in 2012 by Kresge Artist Fellow Kris Johnson) and TeMaTe Institute for Black Dance (since 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow Ajara Alghali) —as
as well as remarks from award winners and staff at Kresge Arts in Detroit, the Kresge Foundation, and the Faculty of Creative Studies. A video of the event program will be available on July 27 at KresgeArtsinDetroitPresents.Art.
Application information for the 2023 Kresge Artist Fellowships in Visual and Literary Arts will be available in the fall of 2022.
For the award biography, photos, social media instructions and contact information, visit tinyurl.com/KAF22-announcement or bit.ly/KAF22-announcement
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Kresge Arts in Detroit is generously funded by the Kresge Foundation and operated by the College for Creative Studies. The goals of Kresge Arts in Detroit are to enrich the quality of life for metro Detroiters by helping artists provide a wide range of cultural experiences; celebrate and reflect the richness and diversity of our community in
all its aspects; raise the profile of art and artists in our community; and strengthen the artistic careers of domestic artists. Since 2008, Kresge Arts in Detroit has awarded more than $7.36 million through 14 Kresge Eminent Artist Awards ($50,000 each), 258 Kresge Artist Fellowships ($25,000 each) and 42 Gilda Awards ($5,000 each). kresgeartsindetroit.org
The Kresge Foundation was founded in 1924 to promote human progress. Today, Kresge fulfills that mission by building and strengthening pathways to opportunity for low-income people in America’s cities, working to remove structural and systemic barriers to equity and justice. Using a range of grants, loans and other investment tools, Kresge invests more
of $160 million annually to stimulate economic and social change. Kresge’s Detroit program works with cross-sector partners to promote and expand long-term, equitable opportunities in Kresge’s hometown by guiding the priorities of its residents. kresge.org
College of Creative Studies (CCS). Located in the heart of Detroit, the College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a world-class institution that educates artists and designers to be leaders in the creative professions. A private, fully accredited college, CCS enrolls more than 1,400 students earning Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees.
Students in the BFA program can further study advertising design, art practice, communication design, craft and material studies, entertainment arts, fashion design, film, illustration, interdisciplinary art + design, interior design, photography, product design and transportation design. to a two-subject art education program. Graduate students can study art education, color and material design, transportation design, and user experience design. faculty of creative studies.edu
