After years of service and dedication to the city of Detroit, Charles McGee, who is also a teacher at the Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center, was honored by the Kresge Foundation their first ever Eminent Artist award.
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"I'm privileged to live today," says McGee in a typically philosophical mode. "At that last moment of my life I'll go out very happy because I feel like nature has given me a kiss of beauty that nobody can take from me. It's nice to be able to share it with those willing to come into that arena."
After a lifetime of service to art in Detroit, the favor is being returned. The Troy-based Kresge Foundation announced today that McGee has been honored with its first Eminent Artist Award, a new annual $50,000 prize designed to recognize a local artist for longstanding contributions to Detroit. The award, which puts an exclamation point on the foundation's recent $8.8 million commitment to the arts in southeastern Michigan, was decided by a three-person panel of area experts, with input from a broad advisory committee.
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