Press Releases

11-21-2011: Michigan Humanities Council Awards Local Grants for 14 Cultural & Historical Projects
11-18-2011: Application for Inclusion into 2012-15 Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Due Dec. 15
09-22-2011: Alpena Library Ready to Host Authors in the Fall Grant-Funded Project
09-01-2011: Kerrytown BookFest Brings Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators to Ann Arbor
08-31-11: Loutit District Library (Grand Haven) to Host Prime Time Family Reading Time®
08-30-11: Michigan Humanities Council Announces Author Tour Dates for Great Michigan Read
08-29-11: Council Now Accepting Applications for Traveling Exhibit: We Don't Want Them
08-26-11: Michigan Humanities Council's Great Michigan Read Awards Strategic Program Grants
08-08-2011: Emmet County Opening Odawa Warriors' Journey Exhibit Aug. 12
08-04-2011: Western Michigan University Hosts Fort St. Joseph Open House with Help from Council
07-13-2011: The Polish Mission Hosts Grandparents, Grandchild Workshops Discovering Heritage
07-12-2011: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House to Host Fairy Tale Art Exhibit with Help from Major Grant
07-11-2011: Troy Historic Village Holds Summertime Storytelling Program ‘Engaging with History’
07-11-2011: Speaker Series to Exhibit Fishtown’s History and its Impact on Culture
06-29-2011: Michigan Humanities Council Awards $175, 848 in Grants for Local Humanities Projects
06-29-2011: Humanities Council Adds Tribal Library to Prime Time Family Reading Time®
4-28-2011: Detroit Cass Tech High School Student Seeks National Poetry In Semifinal Round Today
12-8-2010: D. J. Hoffman appointed to the Humanities Council Board
7-13-2010: Michigan Humanitites Council Adds Four to Board of Directors
6-22-2010: Four More Libraries to Host Humanities-Based Literacy Program for Families
6-4-2010: $155,000 Awarded to 13 Humanities Projects
4-29-2010: Nine Libraries to Host Literacy Programs for Families
4-23-2010: Grand Rapids Student to Compete in Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, DC
4-13-2010: Benjamin Busch, Philip Caputo, Doug Stanton to present "Writing War: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam"
3-6-2010: Lauren Treiber of Forest Hills Central High School (Grand Rapids) Wins Poetry Out Loud State Championship
2-26-2010: Poetry Out Loud State Championship on March 6
1-28-2010: Funding Available for Arts & Humanities Programs
1-26-2010: 4,500 Michigan Students Participate in Poetry Contest
12-3-2009: $39,955 Awarded for Arts & Humanities Programs
12-1-2009: Six Sites to Host Vietnamese in Michigan Exhibit
11-23-2009: $95,552 Awarded for Seven Humanities Projects
11-2-2009: Vietnamese refugee exhibit to tour Michigan
10-7-2009: High School Students Produce Video Documentaries
9-16-2009: Council Invites Schools to Join Poetry Out Loud
8-5-2009: Bich Minh Nguyen’s Great Michigan Read Author Tour Announced
7-31-2009: New Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Released
7-23-2009: Council Welcomes New Development Director
7-20-2009: $15,000 Grants Available for Public Humanities Projects, $5,000 for Great Michigan Read Projects
6-24-2009: $151,581 Awarded for 12 Humanities Programs
5-19-2009: Stealing Buddha's Dinner selected for Great Michigan Read
5-8-2009: Press Advisory:Great Michigan Read book selection on May 19 to be webcast
3-7-2009: Daniel Bellomy of Cass Technical High School in Detroit Wins Poetry Out Loud State Championship
2-26-2009: 4th Annual Poetry Out Loud State Championship
12-17-2008: 32 High Schools Selected for Poetry Recitation Contest
12-3-2008: 26 Schools Awarded Picturing America in Michigan Grants
11-24-2008: $101,379 Awarded for Humanities Programs
11-19-2008: 45 K-12 Transportation Grants Announced
11-13-2008: $30,408 Awarded for 156 Cultural Programs
10-29-2008: Michigan Humanities Council Launches New Website
10-16-2008:K-12 Schools Scramble for Transportation Grants, Demonstrate Value of Arts & Cultural Programs
10-6-2008: Transportation Grants to Help K-12 Schools Travel to Cultural Events
9-15-2008: Poetry Out Loud Contest Open for High Schools
8-27-2008: $15,000 Awarded to Rudyard Area Schools for Humanities Project
7-24-2008: $6,000 Awarded to Western Michigan University for Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Open House July 26-27
6-24-2008: Last time to see The Great Michigan Read exhibit, in Flint now through July 7
6-9-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Ray now through June 23
6-6-2008: $8,050 Awarded to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for Humanities Project
6-3-2008: Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane return to Michigan for July 10 event
5-29-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Bay City from May 30 - June 16
5-22-2008: $136,000 Awarded for 13 Humanities Programs
5-6-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit at Michigan Union; 826michigan presentations at Ann Arbor Book Festival - Opening Reception May 9
4-29-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Big Rapids through May 12
4-18-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Lansing now through May 4; Valerie Hemingway on April 23
4-11-2008: $49,772 Awarded for Arts & Humanities Touring Programs
4-7-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit and programs now in Sault Ste. Marie
3-28-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Plymouth through April 14
3-21-2008: Steelcase Foundation Awards $10,000; Frey Foundation Awards $5,000 for The Great Michigan Read
3-17-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Marquette through March 31
3-8-2008: Charles White of Forest Hills Central High School (Grand Rapids) Wins Michigan Poetry Out Loud state championship
3-5-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Plainwell Mar. 7 - 24
2-28-2008: Media advisory: Poetry Out Loud state championship
2-22-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Alpena through Mar. 3, Calumet through Mar. 10
2-14-2008: GVSU Awarded $15,000 for film on Muskegon's Up from the Bottoms
2-5-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit in Niles through Feb. 11, in Saginaw through Feb. 18
1-29-2008: Valerie Hemingway Six-Stop Michigan Tour
1-25-2008: Key Ingredients Michigan Foodways to make last stop in Dundee
1-10-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit, events at Box Factory in St. Joseph, January 11-28
1-10-2008: Three Join Council Board of Directors
1-3-2008: The Great Michigan Read exhibit, events in Standish, Jan. 4 - 21
12-5-2007: Humanities Council awarded $60,000 for PRIME TIME® reading program in Detroit, Saginaw, and South Haven
07-09-2007: Ernest Hemingway's The Nick Adams Stories Selected for the Great Michigan Read
03-10-2007: Sarah Harris of Holt High School wins Poetry Out Loud State Championship
03-25-2006: Holt, Sexton Students win State Poetry Title