Kresge Arts in Detroit provides significant financial support for 18 Kresge Artist Fellowships annually, each consisting of a $25,000 award and customized professional development opportunities for emerging and established metropolitan Detroit artists in the Literary, Performing and Visual Arts.

Information Session Will Be Held:
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010, 7PM
College for Creative Studies
Walter B. Ford II Building, Auditorium
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The 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowships will be awarded in the Literary and Performing Arts. The following are the disciplines reviewed in each category:

LITERARY ARTS
Art criticism in all disciplines (including literary, performing and visual arts), creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, playwriting and interdisciplinary work within the above arts disciplines.

PERFORMING ARTS
Choreography, music composition (in all genres - classical, country, electronic, folk, hip-hop, jazz, rap, rock, etc.), performance art, spoken word, sound art and interdisciplinary work within the above arts disciplines.

FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY, 26th, 2010 (more…)

Eli Coppola was a San Francisco based poet who was an important part of the city’s spoken word and literary scenes in the 1990’s. She died in 2000. Her many chapbooks have been collected in the volume Some Angels Wear Black, published by manic d press.

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