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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

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The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it. Several Detroit comments were in this vein. This perspective was rampant in Michigan.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

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The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami.

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No longer in extremis.

Museum 2.0

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. It is hard to describe the gratification of seeing families meaningfully engaging with the Asian interactives we prepared with many advisors that included local members of the Asian communities.

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The best comedies streaming on Netflix right now

Mashable Tech

Credit: Netflix Eddie Murphy returns as wise-cracking Detroit police officer Axel Foley. New to the crew is Taylour Paige as Axel's hard-headed daughter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a local ally, Nasim Pedrad as a flustered real estate agent, and Kevin Bacon as a smirking antagonist. The sparks will fly. The punchlines hit powerfully.

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Ford Motor Co. transformed a historic inn into a swanky airport hotel

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headquarters in Detroit was connected to other major cities by the now-defunct Ford Airport, an airline service for which Ford himself provided the necessary land and main investment. Its reopening returns the site to its roots as a hotel for Ford executives who these days travel from nearby Detroit Metro Airport.

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Guest Post: World Maker Faire and the New York Hall of Science: Radical Trust

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It’s worth mentioning that the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit also hosted a Maker Faire at their facility this year. There is a whole range of recyclers, hackers, metalworkers, weavers, builders, circuit benders, and artists up and down the East Coast that NYSCI connected with through the Maker Faire planning. Why at NYSCI?