Around the country, several communties have what are referred to as First Friday events, where, on the first Friday of each month, various venues coordinate new art installations and the like, encouraging people to come out, stroll between them, etc. Well, for the past several months, things have been ramping up locally, and, this past […]
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First Fridays Ypsilanti to grow with A2Awesome grant
Posted in Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation, Ypsilanti Also tagged AmeriCorps, art crawl, art students, art walks, Arts Alliance, Beezy's, Bona Sera, Caleb Zweifler, Community Rebirth, Deb Ennis, Depot Town, dishdogs, dishwashing, dishwolfing, DIYpsi, Eastern Michigan University, Elize Jekabson, fiber art, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, FLY Children's Art Center, illustrations, Kayj Michelle, paintings, photography, pop-up galleries, pop-up retail, public art, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside Park, San Jose, sculpture, Shadow Art Fair, Teresa Gillotti, Ugly Mug, vacant storefronts, Washtenaw Community College, workshops, Ypsilanti Art Incubator 11 Comments
U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant
A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan 5 Comments
Awesome Toronto: putting a bounty on the head of Mayor Rob Ford
In my capacity as Dean of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, I found myself spending an hour or so this afternoon cruising around the web, checking up on other Awesome Foundation chapters across North America. And, in the process, I found something interesting. Our associates in Toronto, it would seem, have decided to go rogue. […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged A2Awesome, impediments to awesome, philanthropy, Rob Ford, Toronto 15 Comments
More on the last three $1,000 grants awarded by the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation
For those of you who didn’t happen to see it, Tom Perkins, the heir to the
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged Amanda Uhle, AnnArbor.com, Bill Streety, Blues, Jazz, local music, Perkins Pickles, photography, Tom Perkins, Trevor Stone 2 Comments