Knight Arts Challenge 2019 will bring ideas to life in Akron, Detroit and Miami

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Knight Arts Challenge 2019 will bring ideas to life in Akron, Detroit and Miami

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Adam Ganuza

Great art has the power to illuminate our stories, shaping our perception of what is real and giving light to what is possible. The arts create new narratives, whether through the written word, visual languages, music or the language of movement. These narratives provoke us to question our understanding of the world.

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Bringing art to life: Knight invests $37 million in Miami arts ecosystem

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Adam Ganuza

Miami is a city of stories and storytellers. It always has been: from the oral traditions of the Tequesta and the fanciful myths that attracted faraway explorers, to the tale of Julia Tuttle’s orange blossoms, and the complex social drama that played out in the film “Moonlight.”

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Meet the 25 winners of the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Adam Ganuza

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Meet Akron’s 2017 Knight Arts Challenge winners

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Tonight, we’re excited to announce the winning ideas in the 2017 Knight Arts Challenge Akron: 17 projects receiving a combined $743,000 to further Akron’s growth as a center for arts and culture in northeast Ohio. This cohort of winning ideas, the challenge’s third, brings world-class talent and cutting-edge projects to the city, while celebrating the creators and artists working locally.

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29 Knight Arts Challenge winners flipping Detroit’s script

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Detroit is a city characterized by transformation, but also reclamation. Through sheer creativity and grit, Detroiters flip the script on the city’s narrative and its physical spaces, building on the region’s cultural legacy while moving people to see Detroit with a fresh lens. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ideas proposed by the 29 winners of this year’s Knight Arts Challenge.

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29 winning projects to share $1.29 million in 2017 St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Earlier this year, we posed a question to Saint Paul: Tell us your best idea for the arts. Artists and community members responded in a big way to Knight's call for project ideas.

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Meet the finalists in the 2017 Knight Arts Challenge

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Earlier this year, we asked for the best arts ideas in four cities, and each responded in a big way. This year’s Knight Arts Challenge drew more than 2,500 ideas, and put the creative energy of these communities on full display.

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The Knight Arts Challenge is open!

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Now until April 28, Knight Foundation will be accepting applications to the Knight Arts Challenge in four cities: Miami, Detroit, St. Paul and Akron. The application is simple. Just a 150-word description of your best idea for the arts in your city. That’s it.

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Coming soon: the 2017 Knight Arts Challenge

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Adam Ganuza

Each year, the Knight Arts Challenge poses a deceivingly simple question: What is your best idea for the arts in your city? Over the past ten years, from Miami to Detroit, St. Paul and Akron, you’ve answered.

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Winning arts challenge ideas celebrate the overlooked Miami

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Adam Ganuza

I’m a Miami native and I love this place. I don’t know where the moniker “Magic City” originates, but I see the magic in the pink clouds at sunset, in the steam rising off of cortaditos, and even in the symphony of car horns during rush-hour traffic jams. Yet, while it’s easy to get caught up in the sights and sounds that surround us, there is so much more to this place.

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Meet the winning ideas in Detroit’s Knight Arts Challenge

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Adam Ganuza

Over the past week I’ve crisscrossed the Motor City, heading from an urban farm to the high-rising Renaissance Center, through aisles of 2,500-year-old pottery to a diorama of Black Bottom in the 30’s. Detroit is a quintessential American city, with roots that run as deep as its namesake river, and even a newcomer like me can see that.