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Michigan's Highest Honor
The Flint Institute of Arts was honored at the 2007 Governor’s
Awards for Arts & Culture as the recipient of the Arts/Cultural
Organization Award. This is the highest award a cultural organization
can receive in the state of Michigan.
The event was sponsored by ArtServe and took place at the Detroit
Institute of Arts at a gala held last evening. Over 800 were in attendance
from the arts, culture, government and business communities.
Governor Granholm was a featured speaker and presenter, and FIA Director
John Henry accepted the award on behalf of the Flint Institute of
Arts. This is the first time the Flint Institute of Arts has been
nominated for and won this prestigious award.
The FIA was described by the Governor’s Awards peer review panel
as “the epicenter for the visual arts in Genesee County”.
The FIA is the second largest art museum in Michigan with a collection
of over 7,000 works, education programs serve over 30,000 children
annually, its museum art school is the 10th largest in the nation,
and it recently completed a redesign and addition.
Flint had an extraordinary evening beginning with philanthropists
William S. and Claire M. White receiving the Lifetime Achievement
Award. The evening ended with a performance by Tapology, a group of
young tap dancers from Flint. |
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