NOMINATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE
2022 BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD CULTURAL ARTS AWARDS
BY THE CULTURAL COUNCIL OF BIRMINGHAM/BLOOMFIELD

Do you know someone who has made an impact on the arts in our community? Nominate him/her for the 2022 Birmingham Bloomfield Cultural Arts Awards. In its 27th year, the award recognizes an individual who has strongly impacted the arts in the Birmingham/Bloomfield area (Beverly Hills, Birmingham, Bingham Farms, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, and Franklin).

The Cultural As Awards are proudly sponsored by the Cultural Council of Birmingham/Bloomfield in conjunction with its co-sponsors, the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, The Community House, and Hometown Life.com (formerly the Birmingham Eccentric).

To download the nomination form, see a list of former honorees and see nomination criteria, visit:
.https://culturalcouncilbirminghambloomfield.org

Past honorees have included musicians, philanthropists, writers, thespians, sculptors, painters, teachers, photographers, and volunteers. Some local honorees have also had state, national or even international acclaim. Nominations are due by Monday, July 25, 2022. A jury from the community will select the 2022 honoree(s) in August. An awards ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

The 2021 award recipient was Stephen Wogaman, President of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit (CMSD).  Nominators explained that in the ten years since he was named president of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, not only did he mintain the organization’s flagship Chamber Music series at the Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills, but also initiated partnerships across a broad spectrum of audiences of Metro Detroit, doubled the number of concerts presented, and increased its educational programming three-fold.

During the pandemic, under Wogaman’s  leadership, the CMSD became a trailblazer in webcasting world-class artists all over the globe with its Camera Music series (), live-streaming 70 other chamber music organizations nationwide, reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners on six continents while providing a needed revenue stream to artists who found their livelihoods imperiled by being unable to perform in-person.

The mission of the Cultural Council of Birmingham Bloomfield promotes and supports the cultural life in our community, collaborating with other community organizations to honor citizens and businesses that have had an impact on the arts.
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