Program/Grant: GIG Fund

Rule of III: Innovation, Beyond the Ballroom, looks at what makes dance mainstream. Beyond the Ballroom is rooted in the popular movement styles of black people and how these styles...

Open Eye is presenting an original musical theater piece entitled LOCH MESS at the Bakken Museum featuring Antonio Rios Luna, a queer/Two-Spirit Indigenous artist in the lead role of Captain...

Detroit Public Theatre will produce Liza Jessie Peterson?s award-winning one-woman show, THE PECULIAR PATRIOT, in February-March 2023. The production will be accompanied by robust community engagement including targeted promotion and...

The Dennos Museum Center and Milliken Auditorium--located on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College--will host JazzReach (based in Brooklyn, NY) for an educational residency on April 24-25, 2023. Generous funding...

Resonate is an artist-in-residence concert series comprised of a performance at Spread Art, a North Corktown Neighborhood Music Festival in a park, and two live-streamed Twitch shows. In addition to...

We will support Manitou Ogitigaan to host their second Snow Snake tournament to be held on Lake Bemidji in Feb 2023, through funding, promotions, and staff hours. This event will...

The Mask and Rose Women's Theater, collaborating with AD Rhianna Yazzie of the New Native Theater, will bring a staged reading with local actors, designers, and musicians for 2 performances...

Ely's Historic State Theater (EHST) is organizing our inaugural film festival here in Ely, Minnesota! The End of the Road Film Festival will take place February 9-12, 2023, during Ely...

This project engages Marcie Rendon, a McKnight Distinguished Artist Award recipient and award-winning author of crime fiction. By presenting her work to the WBCA community, Marcie will expand her audience,...

We will be working with the artists to build community engaged programming for the exhibit for the months it is on view - they are leading the vision for this...