The City of East Lansing will be now be partnering with the
Arts Council of Greater Lansing to co-administer its Downtown East Lansing Cultural
Entrepreneurship Program.
The program is designed to help local artists, creative entrepreneurs and arts-based businesses in East Lansing by providing loans and micro-enterprise grants to help these businesses start and sustain creative and profitable businesses in downtown East Lansing.
“This is an important recognition of the power of the creative sector to enrich the community,” says Katie Robiadek, program manager for the Arts Council. “By supporting [these businesses] to take firm root, the City of East Lansing is actively recognizing the talent we have grown here — and that differentiates our region.”
In working with the Arts Council of Greater Lansing to administer the program, East Lansing hopes to strengthen its potential and the ability of both agencies to maximize arts and cultural initiatives for the economic development of the Capital region, which in turns gives residents an enriched community to enjoy.
Source: Katie Robiadek, Arts Council of Greater Lansing
Writer: Suban Nur Cooley
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