CORE ARTS Competitors

Inspire Arts & Music (IAM) is a not-for-profit organization whose programs seek to develop and ‘inspire’ young adults via both scholastic and non-scholastic activities. The vehicle we use to do this is a portfolio of performing arts programs, and our mission is to help them develop and demonstrate the qualities needed to achieve excellence in both their program and their personal lives. IAM member programs are generally related to performing arts with a current focus on music, dance and marching arts. We have both competitive and non-competitive programs, and each program has its own performance venues and schedule. Inspire programs utilize trained music & movement educators as well as a youth/peer leaders to deliver both music and arts instruction, and to instill the qualities we seek to teach and instill in our young adults: -Integrity, confidence and motivation -Teamwork and communication -Commitment to excellence, and the work ethic required to reach it -Discipline and personal accountability -Resilience and the ability to work through and overcome adversity

Visual Connections is all about connecting image buyers with suppliers of stock and commissioned photography, illustration, footage, sounds and fonts. We run trade shows in New York, Chicago, Toronto and Boston with educational sessions and an expo of agencies from around the world. We manage the most comprehensive international online directory of visual media suppliers. Through our media partners we offer a variety of other cost-effective advertising and marketing services to suppliers of visual media.

Artspectrum has a long and distinguished record of accomplishment. At its inception Artspectrum was created with three divisions - theater/dance, music and film production with goals to produce, present, develop and educate our constituents. Our first project was the video "Three Black Women Discuss AIDS" which was commissioned by the City of Detroit Health Department. Since that time we produced the Detroit Black Dance Festival bringing together an international slate of dance companies to perform in concert, do lectures/demonstrations and teach classes in a variety of styles. We developed, produced and presented the interdisciplinary dance theatre production "Spell. Our dance company, A Company of Dancers, has performed throughout the Great Lakes region.