Podcasts about knight arts challenge

On the latest episode of "Detroit Evening Report Weekends," WDET's Tia Graham spoke with artist Tiff Massey. Massey trained as a metalsmith at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is well known for her public works and has won several prestigious awards, including the Knight Arts Challenge and the Kresge Artists Fellowship. Massey's "7Mile + Livernois" exhibit opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts in May, featuring jewelry scaled “to the size of architecture.”

In this episode, we dive into a conversation with Yvette Rock. Rock was born in Paramaribo, Suriname in 1975. She received a BFA in 1997 from Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA in Painting from the University of Michigan in 1999. Yvette is the co-founder of Detroit Connections at U of M, and founder and Executive Director of Live Coal - a non-profit organization in Detroit. She has been an artist-in-residence in Detroit schools since 1999, and an active member of her community as a professional artist for 24 years.  Yvette exhibits widely throughout southeast Michigan. Her accolades include three Knight Arts Challenge awards and a Documenting Detroit Fellowship. As a visual artist, community development activist, wife, and mother of five children, Yvette brings a wealth of life experience and insight into her art practice.    In this episode, we talk about:  The power of play and experimentation  Paramaribo, Suriname Memory & Motherhood   Resources:  Yvette Rock  www.yvetterock.com www.livecoal.org Websites:    Referenced Works In Cedars Loving Arms Detroit RePatched Awards Three-time Knight Arts Challenge Awardee. Documenting Detroit Fellowship  ◉ Get in Touch: Nourish.community/podcast  ◉ IG: @blackherstories  ◉ Support this podcast at — https://nourish.community/donate/  ◉ Advertising Inquiries: hello@nourishevents.org

Bryce Detroit (b. 1979, Detroit) is the multidisciplinary Afrofuturist music artist, storyteller, activist, and pioneer of Entertainment Justice. As a cultural designer, he is a national award-winning music producer and curator. Through his social practice Bryce Detroit demonstrates the power of using music entertainment arts and native legacies to preserve, produce, and promote new Diasporic Afrikan narratives, cultural literacies, and cooperative neighborhood-based economies. Bryce Detroit is a 2020 Harvard University Council of the Arts award recipient, 2019 New Museum Ideas Cities Fellow, a 2018 Race Forward – Rinku Sen Innovation Awardee, as well as a 2017 Knight Arts Challenge award winner. Bryce Detroit was also selected as music curator and lead performer for the 10th St Etienne International Design Biennale, representing Detroit as a UNESCO City of Design. A prominent community activist and advocate, Bryce Detroit grows intersectional self-determined communities as a founding member of Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition, co-founder of Detroit Community Wealth Fund, consultant at Center for Community Based Enterprises (C2BE), international delegate for East Michigan Environmental Action Council, and founding member of the art-activism collective Frontline Detroit supporting water shifts and cross-generational movement building throughout Detroit. You can learn more about our guest Bryce Detroit here: https://www.brycedetroit.com/ Today's episode is brought to you by Castor Fix™ Pack and Wrap from Creatrix Solution. The castor oil pack that ensures the castor oil deeply permeates the tissues for a more effective and no mess Castor Oil packing. Get yours here: Castor Oil Pack And, HeartMath, a scientifically validated heart-rate monitoring system that facilitates learning techniques to create an optimal state in which the heart, mind, and emotions are operating in-sync and balanced. Get yours here: HeartMath

Since 2002, Miami based artist Tiffany Madera (Hanan) has become a figurehead in the dance world by re-coding traditional Egyptian Raks Sharki dance as a tool for empowerment and social justice. As a performer, professor, activist, museum professional, filmmaker, and non-profit leader, Tiffany combines a highly aesthetic approach and academic scholarship to tackle the questions of our day. She holds a Master's Degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University and a Master's Degree in Performance Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, both with a focus on intercultural dance and film. Tiffany's cultural background, professional and academic experience make her an impact driven and effective non profit leader positioned to bring complex work into fruition through strategic partnerships and collaborations. Her projects have garnered support and awards across the world including a $100,000 Knight Arts Challenge award with a full matching grant from the Ware Foundation among numerous state, county, municipal and national foundation awards. In this episode you will learn about:- Dancing My Mother's Body initiative- Havana Habibi festival and documentary film- The healing power of belly dance- Running the non-profit organization Hanan Arts- Writing grants and raising money through fundraising and sponsorships.Show Notes to this episode:Follow Tiffany Madera and Hanan Arts via FB, Instagram, Youtube and website.Save your spot at Iana's free webinar How to Start Performing Solo, and Get Paid: www.ianadanceclub.com/eventFollow Iana on Instagram, FB, and Youtube . Check out her online classes and intensives at the Iana Dance Club.Podcast: www.ianadance.com/podcast

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Past recipients of the Knight Arts Challenge say the opportunity is "pivotal," helping to build pathways for artists and creatives.

Theron and Tom head backstage with Chris Coles, a musician, composer and educator from Cleveland, to talk about his career, dive into the entry points for exploring jazz music, and discuss his Nine Lives Project, which deals with the Charleston church shooting in 2015. The Nine Lives Project is an interdisciplinary multi-movement suite intended to heighten awareness of ongoing racial injustice in America. Chris first performed Nine Lives in 2015 as a workshop at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, before eventually turning it into a 40-minute performance piece thanks in part to a Knight Arts Challenge grant. The piece made its Akron debut at the Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival in 2019. (Learn more about the project at the Nine Lives Facebook page.) Chris has performed with several local and international jazz musicians, studied with some of the great pioneers in jazz, and is an instructor in the school of music at Kent State University. Some of his recent accomplishments include being a participant at The Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative music in Alberta, Canada, playing at the North American Saxophone Alliance Regional Festival in West Virginia with the Dana Saxophone quartet, performing at the International Saxophone Symposium in Washington D.C., and premiering a commissioned work by John Hollenbeck at the Whitney Art Museum Composers Workshop. Chris is one of Cleveland's Most Interesting People for 2021, as selected by Cleveland magazine.

Part of the extended program for "Left Futures" hosted by Bas Fisher Invitational, Jan. 28th - Mar. 12 of 2021, in Miami, FL. "After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair and Restoration" by Holly Jean Buck. Verso, 2019 Music by: "Starseed Junglist Anthem" by DJ Umberto Ecco 2k Left Futures is a part of WATERPROOF MIAMI in partnership with the Bridge Initiative, check basfisherinvitational.com, waterproofMIA.com or bridgeinitiative.org for more info. The exhibition and conversation is generously supported in part by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of Arts and Culture and the State of Florida, The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and the Cowles Charitable Trust. Our exhibition space has been made possible with the generous support of Miami Design District.

Explore trauma-informed approaches to making theatre with Detroit theatre artist Andrew Morton! While listening, share the show on social media! Support the show by leaving a rating or review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening, I appreciate you!The Tea aka Topics: Trauma-Informed Theatre Practices, Playwrighting, Social Justice Theatre, Educational Theatre, Theatre in Education, United Kingdom, TYA, Theatre for Young Audiences, TimeSlips, Storycatchers, Applied Theatre, Rising Youth Theatre, Social Workers, Teaching Artist Best Practices, Sticking to Your Values, Detroit, Youth Homelessness, Knight Foundation, Knight Arts Challenge, Detroit Phoenix Center, Sofa Stories Detroit, The Importance of Play, Writing GrantsSupport the show!Share this episode on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeintheatrepodcast/Follow the pod on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifeintheatrepodcastInquiries? Email the host: https://www.tylercalhoun.com/contactFOLLOW ANDREW: http://andrewjmorton.com/abouthttps://www.sofastoriesdetroit.com/Andrew's Published WorkStaging the Personal TextPodcast Art by Christine FranzenTheme music by Tommy BarkerSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/lifeintheatrepodcast)

Sharing Stories of Detroit’s Black Architects at Noir Design Parti Through their project Noir Design Parti, Saundra Little and Karen Davis Burton are sharing the deep and inspiring history of Detroit’s black architects. How can we join to preserve the rich history of the architecture profession and make the stories of all architects accessible to […] The post EA326: Sharing Stories of Detroit’s Black Architects at Noir Design Parti appeared first on EntreArchitect.

Barron Sherer is a time-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. He currently works in Miami with a focus on altering and repurposing archived films. In the early 2000s, he was curator at Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives where he programmed moving image festivals, public access activities, researched collections and managed photochemical conservation. He is the recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies including a 2017 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, a 2019 Experimental Media Artist in Residence at Signal Culture and a 2020 Oolite Arts at Anderson Ranch Artist Residency. Sherer’s new studio project, Moving Image Alliance is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge finalist. https://vimeo.com/barronsherer

Craig speaks with Nick Schroek of the University of Detroit Mercy about the abrupt shuttering of the Detroit incinerator, and also talks with Priya Sircar and Adam Ganuza of the Knight Foundation about this year's Knight Arts Challenge.    

The grants will support a wide range of ideas and initiatives throughout metro Detroit from individuals to institutions.

Starting at $5.50 a week, the MSU Community Music School Detroit educates 700 Detroit-based students a year. A new grant from the Knight Arts Challenge will expand their jazz programming.

Yaima Arbona Bello and Maudie Valero founded their arts organization PAXy without prior experience and in spite of other people’s skepticism and the red tape of starting a non-profit and securing funding, among other challenges. Due in part to adaptability while remaining committed to their original creative vision for the org, as well as a spirit of collaboration, they’ve seen steady growth since starting in 2015.PAXy, which stands for “Putting Art in the galaXy,” is a non-profit organization connecting diverse communities through accessible arts programming and outreach. Their main community project, Wake Up Miami!, brings art into the everyday by offering free, live music and performing arts at Miami Metrorail & Metromover stations. Their first “mini concert” was with musician Ominé Eager.Wake Up Miami! was awarded a $50,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant for their 2018 programming.

Dale Andree is founder and director of National Water Dance. She taught in the dance and theater departments of New World School of the Arts in Miami for over 20 years and directed her own company, Mary Street Dance Theatre for fifteen years, touring the US and Latin America. as well as creating the children’s’ company, The Good for Something Dancers. Dale has been on the faculty of the May O'Donnell Studio and The LaGuardia School in NYC, Salle Pleyel and the School of the Paris Opera Ballet in Paris and has taught at festivals and workshops around the US, Latin America and Europe. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music and received her certification in Laban Movement Analysis from LIMS in NYC. Dale Andree is director of National Water Dance. She has twice been the recipient of the Florida Individual Artists Fellowship and has received multiple county, state, and regional grants for her choreography as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Arts Challenge in 2014. Her interest in site-specific work has taken her from the streets of Paraty, Brazil to the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami to the tidal flats of Maine where she created her first dance for camera film. Her dance film “Between Earth and Sea”, which she created with Miana Jun, premiered at Screendance Miami in 2014 and her newest film “Home” premiered there in January 2018.dandree@nationalwaterdance.orgwww.nationalwaterdance.org

Dale Andree is founder and director of National Water Dance. She taught in the dance and theater departments of New World School of the Arts in Miami for over 20 years and directed her own company, Mary Street Dance Theatre for fifteen years, touring the US and Latin America. as well as creating the children’s’ company, The Good for Something Dancers. Dale has been on the faculty of the May O'Donnell Studio and The LaGuardia School in NYC, Salle Pleyel and the School of the Paris Opera Ballet in Paris and has taught at festivals and workshops around the US, Latin America and Europe. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music and received her certification in Laban Movement Analysis from LIMS in NYC. Dale Andree is director of National Water Dance. She has twice been the recipient of the Florida Individual Artists Fellowship and has received multiple county, state, and regional grants for her choreography as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Arts Challenge in 2014. Her interest in site-specific work has taken her from the streets of Paraty, Brazil to the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami to the tidal flats of Maine where she created her first dance for camera film. Her dance film “Between Earth and Sea”, which she created with Miana Jun, premiered at Screendance Miami in 2014 and her newest film “Home” premiered there in January 2018. dandree@nationalwaterdance.org www.nationalwaterdance.org

Ma’Sue Productions has helped preserve the African-American experience through theatre and storytelling. This week, Shane and Chris sit down with Ma-Sue’s John Dayo-Aliya and Vince Tyree to talk about their Knight Arts Challenge grant for a tour of the play “Or Does It Explode?” (donations and support are being accepted to help fulfill their grant match), a new story series called #Blakron, and the origins of theatre company’s name, along with an upcoming fundraiser March 23 at the Akron Civic Theatre, which happens to also coincide with a birthday party for local journalist and Ma’Sue supporter Yoly Miller. And when they’re not busy producing quality theatre, John and Vince play in a local band, Church of Starry Wisdom, which is described as macabre worship music with pop sensibilities. For info on attending the fundraiser or contributing to the grant match, visit www.facebook.com/masueproductions.

In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by adrienne maree brown. adrienne maree brown, the Co-Editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, doula and pleasure activist living in Detroit. She is a student of emergence, somatics, transformation and science fiction. She is part of the training body of generative somatics, and coordinating the Just Films Narrative Shift Program for Allied Media Projects. She is the 2015-2016 Ursula le Guin Fellowship, the Knight Arts Challenge for 2013 and 2015, a Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for 2013, in the inaugural Speculative Fiction Workshop at Voices of Our Nation 2014, and a graduate of the Clarion Sci-Fi and Fantasy Workshop in 2015.

While virtual reality is typically known within gaming and entertainment, there are a number of practical applications for this technology, says Eric Vaughan and Tony Samangy, who join Shane and Cody to talk about their Knight Arts Challenge winning grant. The project, a collaboration between Red Point Digital and VR Skunkworks, will not only teach virtual reality production to local children, but it will also specialize in stop-motion animation, making this a rare opportunity for learning. They discuss narrative virtual reality, along with the challenges of applying stop-motion animation in a 360-degree space, which is wholly unique. This is the final installment in a series about recent Knight Arts Challenge winners. To see a full list of grantees, visit https://knightfoundation.org/articles/meet-akron-s-2017-knight-arts-challenge-winners.

William Shakespeare’s plays were challenging gender and identity long before today’s discussion of gender fluidity, and his prolific body of work was ahead of its time in many ways. A new project by Rubber City Theatre, called Shakesqueer, taps into this universality of Shakespeare’s works and will adapt a few classics with LGBT themes and characters that are also reflective of Akron. The idea was a recent winner in the Knight Arts Challenge and Dane Leasure, founder and artistic director of Rubber City Theatre, joins Shane, Cody and Chris to talk about Shakesqueer, the theatre company’s new home on Romig Road (part of a unique partnership with the Salvation Army of Akron and Summit County) and the troupe’s current production of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol." For more info and to find upcoming Rubber City Theatre productions this season, visit www.rubbercitytheatre.com. This is the third podcast in a series featuring Knight Arts Challenge winners.

In addition to being a touring musician and music professor, Theron Brown is the visionary and founder of Akron, OH's Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival.  Theron is a driving force on the arts scene in Northeast Ohio and in episode 16 we talk about how he's been able to go from gigging musician to actor, playing Herbie Hancock in "Miles Ahead" directed by Don Cheadle, to music festival producer, and more recently to becoming one of Akron's 30 for the Future. Listen to the end to find out about his NYE show with Dan Wilson.    www.theronbrownmusic.com http://www.greaterakronypn.org/30-for-the-future/ https://www.facebook.com/rubbercityjazz https://twitter.com/theronbrown1 https://www.knightfoundation.org/ http://opentonemusic.org/ http://blujazzakron.com/ 05:01s How I met Theron as a gigging musician 06:15s Living in New York and gigging on the Mississippi Queen paddle boat 08:35s Playing Herbie Hancock in Don Cheadle’s film “Miles Ahead” film with Ewan McGregor 13:12s The impact of being in a film – thinking bigger 16:50s Teaching at three colleges: KSU, YSU and Tri-C. 17:50s Working with the Knight Foundation to foster a vision for the arts 21:10s Detroit Jazz Festival as inspiration for Rubber City Jazz and Blues festival 24:30s Akron and the regional midwest vibe and sound of music 27:30s The genesis of the Rubber City Jazz and Blues fest with the Knight Arts Challenge 30:04s Grasping opportunity and building skills to grow into a festival producer 35:20s The nuts and bolts and what it takes to produce a music festival 38:12s Renaissance of art and culture in Akron, OH and Northeast Ohio Region 46:03s Being recognized by Akron Chamber of Commerce with 30 for the Future Award 47:50s: Leadership Akron program - and how it helped with producing the festival 50:00s Mumbai jazz fest and visiting during monsoon season 52:12s OpenTone Music and is gets music into the public schools 53:52s New Year’s eve with Dan Wilson, Chris Coles, and Tom Lehman at Blu Jazz “As things change, we have to change too, with technology especially” Enjoy this episode? Share it with friends! Click Subscribe in ITunes!

When Jane Berkner founded Urban Troubadour, she wanted to offer Akronites a taste of musical culture and engagement within unique spaces, like art galleries, hotels and other attractions, featuring a collective of area musicians. Urban Troubadour also is a recent winner of the Knight Arts Challenge, which Berkner says will help raise the organization’s profile and help continue these performancess. One of the goals, she says, is to get residents downtown and into urban spaces to explore and enjoy the character and architecture of these buildings. Chris and Cody speak with Jane about her goals and aspirations for this collective and some of the challenges with being an artist in Akron. For info about upcoming performances, visit https://www.urbantroubadour.org/.

This week, we welcome Brit Charek, a recent winner of the Knight Arts Challenge, whose project will take a unique spin on film festivals. The Bechdel Fest will highlight movies that pass the “Bechdel Test,” coined by Alison Bechdel, which requires that there are two women who talk to each other about something besides a man. You’d be surprised at the number of mainstream films that lack this criteria, she says, hoping this project will help move the needle on the way we look at equality. Brit, who also runs the wildly successful Crafty Mart, visits Shane and Chris, along with her two boys, one of whom is likely the youngest podcast guest in Spoils of Akron history. This is the first interview in a series featuring recent Knight Arts Challenge winners. For a full list of grantees, visit https://knightfoundation.org/articles/meet-akron-s-2017-knight-arts-challenge-winners.

"Whatever the diversity issues are on stage...there's a much greater issue behind the scenes."

Adam Ganuza has a cool job. As Arts Program Officer with Knight Foundation, he travels to different cities meeting people and hearing about their ideas for improving the arts. And during his current visit to Akron, he’s informing residents about the Knight Arts Challenge, where a possible $1 million is up for grabs to fund arts-based project ideas. The challenge grant is open to anyone in Akron: nonprofits, businesses, groups or individuals. Adam talks about his background as a previous Knight Arts grantee in Miami and his appreciation of the arts and love of community. He'll be at a number of events this week to help answer questions about the Knight Arts Challenge, including coffee shop hours and evening presentations. Applications are open through April 28, and for the first round of applications, all you need to provide is a 150-word description of your project idea. For more info, visit www.knightarts.org.

Making art general in cities across America is the charge of Dennis Scholl, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. Dennis and his colleagues are the brains behind the Knight Arts Challenge (which is currently open for ideas in South Florida), the enormously popular Random Acts of Culture, and Inside|Out, the project that takes replicas of famous works of art in museums and puts them in unexpected places. This week on “Knight Cities,” Dennis and I talk about his work and how art is bringing new vibrancy to cities. Email me via: Coletta (at) knightfoundation.org.

This week: Shame on us, we are still posting audio from Miami 2013! This week we talk to Tatiana Hernandez of the Knight Foundation. Tatiana Hernandez joined Knight Foundation in 2011. She leads the Knight Arts Challenge, Knight’s open contest for discovering the best arts ideas in Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Paul. Through her work, she manages a portfolio of over 350 grantees, totaling nearly $100 million in investments. Hernandez serves on the boards of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and Machine Project, an experimental artist space in Los Angeles. She was named a 2014 Marshall Memorial Fellow, a program of the German Marshall Fund. Before coming to Knight Foundation, Hernandez worked on issues in public education, most recently as the development director at Green Dot Public Schools where she oversaw $15 million per year in funding and was responsible for over $2 million in new support. Prior to her work in education, she served as the deputy director of programs for Best Buddies International, a Miami-based nonprofit that builds one-to-one friendship opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. Hernandez has written and spoken on the importance of new organizational models, equity in grantmaking and innovation in the arts.

Roberta and Libby interview Dennis Scholl in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Dennis Scholl in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.