MARQUETTE, MI-- Six Upper Peninsula counties are sharing in nearly $5.7 million in grants from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
The money is going to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, educational institutions, and municipalities.
Among other recipients, the Bonifas Arts Center in Escanaba is getting $17,000 dollars; the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Hancock, $7,500; nearly $15,000 will go to the Erickson Center for the Arts in Curtis; the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at NMU is getting $5,600; and $10,000 is going to the Friends of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Ontonagon.
A full list is posted online at www.michiganadvantage.org/arts.
