Revised
5/9/01

Great Lakes Culture Program
Michigan State University
Recent Planning Activities

Gatherings
·        Great Lakes Folklore (Milwaukee) ~ February 2000
·        Great Lakes Collections (Chicago) Newberry Library ~ May 2000
·        Great Lakes Area Directors of State Humanities Councils (Chicago) ~ May       2000
·        Great Lakes Archaeology (Minneapolis) ~ November 2000
·        Great Lakes Vernacular Architecture and Heritage Landscapes (East Lansing)       ~ February 2001
·        Great Lakes Labor History (East Lansing) ~ February 2001
·        Great Lakes Expressive Culture (East Lansing) ~ February 2001
·        Great Lakes Native Culture (East Lansing) ~ February 2001
·        Great Lakes Public History (East Lansing) ~ February 2001
·        Great Lakes Identity: Social & Geographic Boundaries (East Lansing) ~       February 2001
·        Great Lakes Foodways (East Lansing) ~ March 2001
·        Great Lakes Linguistics (Columbus) ~ March 2001
·        Great Lakes Maritime Heritage (East Lansing) ~ June 2001
·        Great Lakes Press/Publications Directors (East Lansing) ~ Summer 2001       (approval pending)
·        Topics under consideration: Great Lakes Heritage Corridors, Great Lakes       Literature, and Great Lakes Urban Architecture and Planning

Conferences
·        Mapping Great Lakes Identity: Past, Present & Future (East Lansing) ~ February 16-17,    2001
·        Imagining America/Imagining Michigan (East Lansing) ~ Fall 2001

Festivals/Special Events
·        New Annual Great Lakes Folk Festival (East Lansing) ~ beginning in August       2002
·        Forum: Understanding Farmstead Architecture: The Great Lakes Farmstead       (East Lansing) ~ March 9, 2001
·        French Colonial Society Meetings/Detroit 300 (June 2001)

Awards Program
·        Best book on Great Lakes culture: Presented to Ojibwa Singers by Robert       McNally, Oxford University Press
·        Best Great Lakes culture web site: Presented to Great Lakes Information       Network
·        Best exhibition on Great Lakes culture: Presented to “Illusions of Eden:       Visions of the American Heartland”
·        Best manuscript (publication prize) Great Lakes Writers Series (approval       pending)

Communications
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Brochure ~ March 2000
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Web Site ~ April 2000
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Electronic Digest/Updates ~ Fall 2000
·        Newsletter (electronic version) ~ Spring 2001
·        Publication (hard copy) ~ Fall 2001 (2 annually)
·        Survey of Great Lakes collections ~ 2001
·        Listserv with NEH Regional Center Planning Grant recipients and State       Humanities Directors (2001)
·        Listserv of CGLC Interest Group (January 2001)
·        Disaster Planning Electronic Resource on web site (January 2001)
·        Consultations with other regional humanities centers (Spring 2001)

Center for Great Lakes Culture Fellowships (4)
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Fellowships at Newberry Library (2) (William      Heath and James Cook) ~ 2000-2001
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Fellowship (1) (open to       scholars/curators/community       scholars involved in       inventorying/documenting Great Lakes culture) ~ (2001: Francesco Melfi)
·        Center for Great Lakes Culture Fellowship (1) (open to MSU faculty member       involved in documenting Great Lakes culture) ~ (2001: Javier Pescador)

Curriculum Development
·        Inventory of courses with Great Lakes content at MSU ~ Spring 2000
·        Development of areas of concentration for students (undergraduate and       graduate on Great Lakes culture) ~ 2001
·        Inventory of programs with Great Lakes focus in region ~ Spring 2001
·        Telluride Association: Education partnership established ~ May 2000

Recent Collection Development Activity
·        Michigan Writers Collection: New Acquisitions/Richard Ford papers/MSU       Libraries
·        Jim Cash and Jack Epps Collections/MSU Libraries
·        Michigan Cookery Collections/MSU Libraries
·        Vincent Voice Library/Oral Histories of Michigan Supreme Court Justices/MSU       Libraries
·        Great Lakes Native baskets/fieldwork reports/MSU Museum
·        Great Lakes folklife fieldwork reports/MSU Museum
·        Bay City Archaeology Collections/MSU Museum

Exhibition Planning
·        Planning underway with Arts Midwest for an exhibition on Great Lakes       Culture/connections with water (rivers and lakes)

Development Activities/Endowments Established
·        Great Lakes Culture Endowment ($35,000/private anonymous gift) ~ June       2000
·        Great Lakes Traditions Endowment at MSU Museum ($80,000) ~ June 2000

Grant Activity
·        Great Lakes Folk Festival Planning Grant (National Endowment for the       Arts/Heritage & Preservation Program $30,000)
·        Incubator Grant, Michigan State University ($75,000)
·        Exhibition Planning Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs       ($20,000)
·        Great Lakes Folk Festival Planning Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts and       Cultural Affairs ($70,000)
·        NEH State Encyclopedia Planning Grant (participating partner/MHC) in       partnership with Michigan Humanities Council ($50,000)

Major Donor Activity
·        Major Donor Prospect List in Development/Initial Solicitation ~ 2000-2001
·    Major Donor Events are being planned ~ 2001
·    Endowed Gift Opportunities Summary (Fall 2000)