City of Detroit ACE Honors Show

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The ACE Honors show that tells the stories of the recipients’ contributions.

ELIZABETH “BETTY” BROOKS Board member of the Detroit Historical Society, Motown Museum, Detroit Jazz Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Michigan Opera Theatre.

DAVID DICHIERA Founder of Michigan Opera Theatre (Detroit Opera); recipient of the Opera Honors Award by the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in opera.

ROBERT S. DUNCANSON Considered to be the first African American artist to gain international recognition and proclaimed by the American media as “the best landscape painter in the West.”

LEROY FOSTER Fine portrait painter and muralist known for public commissions; founded the Contemporary Studio with Charles McGee, Harold Neal and Henri Umbaji King.

TYREE GUYTON Neo-expressionist artist and creator of the internationally renowned Heidelberg Project; Kresge Visual Arts Fellow (2009).

VERA HEIDELBERG Co-chair of the first Classical Roots Celebration, an annual concert sponsored by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra recognizing African American contributions to classical music.

ARTIS LANE Portrait artist and sculptor known for works featuring President John F. Kennedy, Rosa Parks and Aretha Franklin; first woman to be admitted to the prestigious Cranbrook Art Academy.

CHARLES MCGEE Prolific painter and sculptor; founder of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit; advised the State of Michigan, City of Detroit on cultural initiatives; first Kresge Eminent Artist (2008).

CARLOS NIELBOCK Master architectural ornamental metal and design artist, engineer and craftsman; inventor of the Detroit Windmill; founder of C.A.N. Art Handworks, an ornamental architectural metals studio.

DUDLEY RANDALL The City of Detroit’s first Poet Laureate; called “the Father of the Black Poetry Movement”; founder of Broadside Press.

GRETCHEN VALADE Philanthropist and leading patron of the Detroit Jazz Festival and Wayne State University’s jazz program; founder of Grammy Award-winning Mack Avenue Records; owner of the Dirty Dog Jazz Café.

MARILYN WHEATON Longtime Director of the City of Detroit’s Cultural Affairs Department; helped orchestrate art for the Detroit Tricentennial Celebration, including the International Memorial to the Underground Railroad/

DEBRA WHITE-HUNT Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy; choreographer for more than 50 ballets; director of more than 100 dance concerts; Kresge Arts Fellow (2020).

SHIRLEY WOODSON Iconic painter known for large-scale figurative work featured in the Detroit Institute of Arts; co-founder of the Michigan Chapter of the National Conference of Artists; Kresge Eminent Artist (2021).

JAMON JORDAN, the first official CITY OF DETROIT HISTORIAN, an honorary position given to an individual who has a demonstrated knowledge of Detroit’s cultural history.

THE KRESGE FOUNDATION Each year, the ACE Awards will salute philanthropy, which has elevated and sustained Detroit arts and culture for decades. Our first recipient is the Kresge Foundation, which since 2008, has awarded more than $6.7 million through Kresge Arts in Detroit's Kresge Eminent Artist Awards, Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Awards.