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here’s to
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced
appointments to the Michigan Council for Arts and
Cultural Affairs. Among them is Anessa Kramer of
Bloomfield Hills, a partner and board member at
Honigman LLP. She is also a member of the board
of directors of the Jewish Fund, the Roeper School
and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Kramer is appointed for a term expiring Sept. 1,
2023. The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs serves to
encourage, develop and facilitate an enriched environment of cre-
ative and cultural activity in Michigan.
The Michigan Municipal League has honored Sen.
Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) as one of the League’
s
2020 Legislators of the Year. Following his service
as the youngest city council person in the city of
Southfield’
s history, Moss was immediately installed
as the ranking Democrat on the Local Government
Committee upon his election to the Michigan House
in 2014. He has a long record of passionately defending local con-
trol, speaking out against efforts to preempt local units of govern-
ment and pushing for restoring funding to communities.
The 25th Annual Birmingham Bloomfield Cultural Arts Award hon-
orees were announced recently. Among them are Sue Marx, 2020
Special Lifetime Achievement Award; and Jason Polan, 2020 Special
Posthumous Award. The jury was impressed by Marx,
of Birmingham; many of her documentaries, some
of them pro bono, tell the story of our region, includ-
ing the Detroit Zoo, Children’
s Hospital, the DIA, a
Cranbrook series, the Purple Rose Theater, the People
Mover, the Detroit Boxing Gym, and most impressively
the Math Corps, a collaboration with Wayne State
University to assist underserved youth to learn math
that has been shown all over the country. The jury felt
very strongly that Polan, who grew up in Franklin and
who passed away this year at the age of 37, deserved
to be recognized for the incredible mark he had in
Michigan where he left murals in Ann Arbor and men-
tored local artists from Birmingham and those in the
Detroit art scene, but also for his national and inter-
national impact on the arts, with collaborations with
Uniqlo, Warby Parker, Marvel Comics and Nike, his
illustrations in children’
s and adult books, his efforts and ultimately a
book to draw Every Person in New York, and his daily cartoons in the
New York Times, as he “drew to help the world see.”
Sue Marx
Jason Polan
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