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VIRTUOSO JAZZ BASSIST AND EDUCATOR MARION HAYDEN NAMED 2025 KRESGE EMINENT ARTIST
Jazz bassist, educator, and advocate receives $100,000 award. Hayden is the 17th metro Detroiter to receive the honor for lifetime artistic achievement and contributions to the region’s cultural communities.
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15 Years and Counting...
2023 marked Kresge Arts in Detroit’s 15th anniversary.
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Becoming a fellow has made me hold myself to a higher standard creatively, but it also gives me that real sense of a village, uplifting and supporting. It's a level of support that can catapult you on so many levels.
Cybelle Codish
2019 Kresge Artist Fellow
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[Fellowships are] a touchstone and testament to their remarkable ingenuity and dedication to the advancement of the culture of Metro Detroit. This prize is not just financially helpful, it also provides invaluable support and development which will surely enrich the future of their artistic lives.
Jonah Mixon-Webster
2023 Kresge Artist Fellowship panelist
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The Fellowship has changed the way I see myself and my art. It has made me see the value in what it is that I do. I have a new perspective on who I am as an artist and what I have to offer and what the value of that thing I have to offer is.
Marcus Elliot
2020 Kresge Artist Fellow
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Looking ahead to the next 15 years, Kresge Arts in Detroit will continue to champion abundant, unrestricted investment, consistent exhibition and performance opportunities, and other conditions that are necessary for artists to truly thrive.
Christina deRoos
Director, Kresge Arts in Detroit
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We are proud to contribute to careers that in turn contribute to the cultural identity and vitality of our community as a whole.
Rip Rapson
President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
382 Individual artists awarded since 2008
$9 Million No strings attached investments to Detroit artists
