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Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce the award recipients for the 2022 Michigan Humanities Awards. “We received a record number of nominations this year and the selection committee had the difficult job of choosing just one to receive the award for each...

The Michigan Humanities Board of Directors and staff is pleased to announce that Jennifer Rupp has been selected to serve as the new President & CEO for the organization. Ms. Rupp is a long-time non-profit leader with over 15 years of experience; her career spans...

Michigan Humanities and the Michigan Arts & Culture Council announce that Gabriel Blaikie, a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy, is the 2022 Michigan Poetry Out Loud State Champion. Gabriel’s teacher at Interlochen is Andrew McGinn. The first runner-up is Nour...

Michigan Humanities and the Michigan Arts & Culture Council (formerly Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs) announce the 2022 State Finals for Poetry Out Loud. The competition, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the...

Michigan Humanities (MH) is pleased to announce that the nominations for the 2022 Michigan Humanities Awards are now open. Awards will be selected from three different categories, and a panel of current and former board members, MH staff, and Humanities professionals...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce $151,280 in grants to 12 organizations in support of public humanities programming. The 12 projects explore a range of humanities-topics and include exhibitions, community programming, filmmaking, speaker events, and...

Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs (MCACA) has awarded Michigan Humanities (MH) two grants totaling $140,000. These grants will assist with the funding of two programs produced in partnership between MH and MCACA: the Arts & Humanities Touring...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2021 Michigan Humanities Awards. This year’s recipients come from Grand Rapids, Flint, and Vandalia. “We are very pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Michigan Humanities Awards. These...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce over $1,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to 106 Michigan cultural and community organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Michigan Humanities Organizations Pandemic Emergency Grants (MI H.O.P.E.) of up to...

The Michigan Humanities Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Jennifer Rupp will serve as Acting President & CEO for the organization while the search for a permanent President & CEO gets underway. Shelly Hendrick Kasprzycki will leave Michigan...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce the Fall 2021 tour dates for 2021-22 Great Michigan Read (GMR) author, Mary Doria Russell. Russell’s book, The Women of the Copper Country, was announced as the 2021-22 Great Michigan Read selection in March. The tour will...

Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is pleased to announce a new funding resource for Michigan nonprofits with missions centered on furthering public humanities projects and programs. In order to assist organizations with...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce $221,915 in grants to 17 organizations in support of public humanities programming. The 17 projects explore a range of humanities-topics and include exhibitions, community programming, filmmaking, speaker events, and...

Summary for IDEA Survey Results In February of 2021, Michigan Humanities asked our community members to share their feedback regarding our efforts demonstrating Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) principles. Ninety-eight people filled out our survey...

Novel Tells the Story of a Woman Who Leads Striking Calumet Miners in 1913 Residents throughout Michigan were invited today to join in reading and discussing “The Women of the Copper Country,” Mary Doria Russell’s riveting account of 25-year-old Annie Clements as she...

On December 11, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer officially reappointed April Clobes, of Bath, county of Clinton and Jim Napolitano, of Dryden, county of Lapeer to the Michigan Humanities Board of Directors. Both will be returning on January 1, 2021 to begin a second...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce it is the recipient of $50,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Federation of State Humanities Councils to participate in the national “Why it Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation” initiative.  This program will...

Michigan Humanities is pleased to announce that applications for the Arts and Humanities Touring grant program will open on November 15th for performances that will take place between December 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021.  The Arts and Humanities Touring grant...