Kresge Arts in Detroit is honored to present the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellows in the literary and performing arts. The fellowships, each including a $25,000 prize funded by the Kresge Foundation, are awarded annually to visual, literary and performing artists and are the largest such awards available to individual artists in metropolitan Detroit.

The 2010 fellows are both emerging and established artists who represent an extraordinarily broad range of artistic disciplines including composers, choreographers, performance and sound artists, art critics, poets, fiction and non-fiction writers. These fellowships will provide the artists with more time and expanded resources to explore, experiment and further develop their work.

The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis, and the awardees were selected from among hundreds of applications by two panels of distinguished local and national arts and professionals in the literary and performing arts. Kresge Arts in Detroit is grateful to the literary arts panel: Brad Leithauser, Cary Loren, Thylias Moss and Lynne Tillman, and to the performing arts panel: Grisha Coleman, Aaron Dworkin, Ben Hernandez and Greg Tate, for the valuable expertise they brought to their work as panelists.

The 18 fellows below are representative of the exceptional talents of the literary and performing artists living and working in metropolitan Detroit. Kresge Arts in Detroit is pleased to support outstanding artists and celebrate their contribution to the cultural vitality of our city and region.

Michelle Perron
Director
Kresge Arts in Detroit