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Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs announced more than 300 grants statewide, and many U.P. agencies will be among those benefiting.
To receive the grants, 401 organizations applied, asking for $8.9 million. Overall, $5.7 million was granted statewide from the Program for Operational and Projects Support, the Capital Improvement Program, the Regional Regranting program and the Services to the Field program.
In Chippewa County, the Bay Mills Brimley Historical Research Society got $3,850; the EUP Regional Planning and Development Commission got $28,800; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society got $35,100; and the Pickford Area Historical Society got $3,000.
In Delta County, the CUPPAD Regional Commission got $42,200, and the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center got $17,000.
In Houghton County, the Copper Country Community Arts Council got $51,300; the Copper Country Intermediate School District got $5,625; the Copper Country Suzuki Association got $12,000; Michigan Technological University got $4,842; and the Pine Mountain Music Festival got $7,500.
In Mackinac County, Erickson Center for the Arts got $37,613; Les Cheneaux Historical Association got $4,521; the Mackinac Arts Council got $3,000; and the Top of the Lake Snowmobile Museum got $35,000.
In Marquette County, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center got $5,625; The City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center got $12,000; Lake Superior Theatre got $11,250; the Liberty Children's Art Project got $17,000; Marquette County Historical Society got $17,000; the Marquette Symphony Orchestra got $17,000; and the U.P. Children's Museum got $22,216.
Finally, Ontonagon County's Friends of the Porcupine Mountains got $10,000.
In total, the grants support organizations with 10,718 full time employees and an additional 54,868 contracted Michigan artists. The programs or exhibits offered will be attended by about 50 million people, about 10 million of which are youth.
Writer: Sam Eggleston
Source: Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
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