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Knight Detroit Museum Fund

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Date Awarded
10/01/12
Amount
$2,250,000
Grant Period
10/01/12 to 09/30/17
Focus Area
Fostering the Arts
Community
Detroit
Initiative
Knight Arts Challenge

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To experiment with new programs that will take the institute’s world-class art collection out of the museum and into the community

As museums seek meaningful ways to engage with the public, the Detroit Institute of Arts found a winning model with its Inside|Out program, which brings high-quality reproductions of masterpieces from the museum’s collection to the streets and parks of metro Detroit. The program, which recently completed its third year and is sponsored by Knight Foundation, has fostered concerts, poetry readings, talks, tours and art installations, as well as a sense of pride in the community and ownership of the museum. Now the institute wants to build on that success by experimenting with a range of programs to inspire creativity, knowledge of art and the museum’s collection, and a dialogue about local arts and culture.

The Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan will create the Knight Detroit Museum Fund, in support of increased community engagement using new models at the Detroit Institute of Arts, to take the art out of the museum and into the community

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Graham W.J. Beal

Graham W.J. Beal has been the director, president and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts since 1999. Since joining the DIA's leadership, Beal has overseen two major capital campaigns, guided the reinstallation of the museum's world-renowned collection, and overseen the museum's renovation and expansion, which will display and interpret the collection in exciting new ways.

Beal has continued to build on the museum's outstanding reputation and has strengthened relationships with some of the world's most well-regarded institutions through loans and programming supported by the museum's unparalleled collection. Under Beal's leadership the DIA has co-organized outstanding exhibitions such as Van Gogh: Face to Face in 2000 and Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence in 2003. Also in 2003, Beal curated the popular exhibition On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection. Among the other exhibitions presented during Beal's tenure are Degas and the Dance, 2002; American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers, 2003, and Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter, 2006.

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