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Dan, Jennifer Gilbert make $30M pledge to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills
Donation believed to be largest ever to graduate art program in US
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert and his wife, Jennifer, have given $30 million to a private graduate art school in suburban Detroit to help it accelerate its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The funding also will help with long-term fiscal sustainability, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills announced Tuesday.
“Our entire community will benefit from this. It’s not often that a gift like this comes around,” said Dominic DiMarco, president of Cranbrook Educational Community.
Dan, Jennifer Gilbert give $30M to Detroit-area art academy
April 6, 2021
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert and his wife, Jennifer, have given $30 million to a private graduate art school in suburban Detroit to help it accelerate its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The funding also will help with long-term fiscal sustainability, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills announced Tuesday.
Twenty full-tuition fellowships for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will be funded through the newly established Gilbert Fellows program. A permanent endowment to fund the fellowships also will be established.
Tuition relief and general support for the academy’s existing scholarships and visiting faculty artists over the next five years, with a focus on artists of color, will receive funding.
April 06, 2021 - 11:28 AM
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert and his wife, Jennifer, have given $30 million to a private graduate art school in suburban Detroit to help it accelerate its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The funding also will help with long-term fiscal sustainability, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills announced Tuesday.
Twenty full-tuition fellowships for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will be funded through the newly established Gilbert Fellows program. A permanent endowment to fund the fellowships also will be established.
Tuition relief and general support for the academyâs existing scholarships and visiting faculty artists over the next five years, with a focus on artists of colour, will receive funding.