Search our list of Arts and Cultural agencies/facilities. For further information and their respective programming, please click on the individual links. Thank you.
Search our list of Arts and Cultural agencies/facilities. For further information and their respective programming, please click on the individual links. Thank you.
September 2nd, 2010
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About ACGL
Founded in 1965, the Arts Council of
Greater Lansing (ACGL) provides education, funding, resources, and consulting
services to hundreds of artists and 140 arts and cultural agencies throughout
the capital region. Committed to empowering
both the people who like art and the people who make art, the ACGL actively
works with its constituents and alongside area leaders to promote the value of
the arts and to make the arts possible in the greater Lansing region.
Here a few highlights of the Arts Council's current initiatives:
- Increasing grant opportunities
for individual artists and cultural organizations.
The new Arts Council Collaborative Arts Grant and Individual Artist
Grants cultivate lasting support for local artists and encourage new project
collaborations among area arts and cultural organizations. These, coupled with
three other grant programs, allowed the Arts Council to administer a total
$269,944 in arts grants last year.
- Administering an onsite business
resource center and group meeting space. The Arts Council has
moved to a welcoming new office at 1208
Turner Street in Old Town Lansing with dedicated
space and business resources available to our constituents. This, plus personalized consultations and
professional support, helped 103 cultural organizations and 67 individual
artists last year.
- Connecting local artists and
cultural organizations with regional economic, entrepreneurial, and workforce
initiatives. In 2009, the Arts Council worked
alongside the City of Lansing,
the City of East Lansing, Michigan State University, and many others, to
develop a Cultural Economic Development Plan for Greater Lansing's urban
center. This plan will become the road map for using the creative sector to
develop our local economy, with its implementation beginning in 2010.
- Representing a stronger voice for
support of arts and culture at the local level.
In 2009 the Arts Council initiated a regional Arts-in-Action effort to
help constituents with effective advocacy and to arrange one-on-one meetings
with local legislators. In 2010, the
Arts Council plans to continue and to build upon this important work.