Creative Detroit: Knight Foundation Awards $2.1 Million To 56 Local Ideas

September 08, 2013, 11:35 AM

The Knight Foundation has announced $2.1 million in grants to 56 Detroit people and groups who have a dizzying array of ideas for the money. 

For example:

*Detroit SOUP will convert a bread truck into a portable space where people can meet to microfund ideas. 

*Hardcore Detroit will release a documentary featuring the founders of the movement entitled The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit.

*Hatch will create an art library where Detroiters can borrow a local artist’s work for their home for up to two months. 

*John Brumit will create a series of drive-through audio collages within the city’s 143 total square miles, installing hyper-local radio stations that continuously broadcast on the same frequency.

*Leni Sinclair will create a public archive of her personal photo collection dating back to the early 1960s. 

*The Cinetopia Film Festival will use challenge funding to become Detroit’s signature film festival.

*Theatre Bizarre will expand its annual immersive art installation that brings together artists ranging from musicians and dancers to acrobats and circus sideshow performers.

The winners are mostly small groups and individual artists—homegrown talent working across a range of disciplines.

"If they have one thing in common it’s that they keep the community at the heart of their projects," said the Knight Foundation's Dennis Scholl. 

"We’re excited to help build on the creative momentum in Detroit, and everything that artists and social entrepreneurs are doing to push the city forward."

Click on the Knight Foundation link for a full list. 

 


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