Help Build the Future for the Visual and Performing Arts
Your generous gifts have a direct impact on the lives of students and faculty members. Through your donation, you do more than just support the arts at Michigan Tech.
Your gifts create opportunities for students from all disciplines who have chosen to engage or even major in the arts, assist in attracting world-class faculty, and support the creation of new and innovative programs. For every engineering student that has taken an art class, you've helped them become more creative and confident in their own field. For every premed student that lands a role in a stage production, you've given them the chance to express themselves.
It is paramount to acknowledge how important the arts are to a well-rounded culture, society, and individual. Despite the decrease in state funding, with your gift we can still provide an exceptional educational experience and continue to enrich lives.
Thank you for your generosity.
What Your Gift Could Accomplish
Doug Lindgren ‘69 BS Chemical Engineering, a former member of the Husky Pep Band, and his wife Mary recently supported the Husky Pep Band Traveling Roadshow Fund with a gift of $5,000. Their gift helps the Husky Pep Band with instrument/equipment repairs and purchases, transportation and housing arrangements, and music distribution on their traveling roadshows.
Donor- and State-matching opportunities are available. Contact Jared Anderson at jaredand@mtu.edu to explore ways your support can multiply—ensuring your gift has maximum impact.
"Doug and Mary have been generous Michigan Tech supporters for more than 45 years. While the Huskies Pep Band is an iconic institution at Michigan Tech, its annual budget is shockingly small. With their gift establishing the Pep Band Travel Fund, they help ensure the Pride of Pasty Land can travel far and wide, supporting our great Husky athletes and striking fear in the hearts of their opponents."
Giving Needs
There are a variety of needs in the Department. Choose from the following and make your gift today.
Visual and Performing Arts Department
Your gift to the Visual and Performing Arts Fund meets the immediate needs of our students and faculty, including travel to conferences to keep up with the latest technology and practices, as well as the purchase of equipment, software, and supplies.
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Outstanding Student Scholarship
There are a number of ways to support outstanding student scholarship.
Milton Olsson Endowed Scholarship
Your gift supports outstanding student participation in the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra and/or the choirs of Michigan Tech (conScience: Michigan Tech Chamber Singers or Michigan Tech Concert Choir). The award is granted to a student in the second to fourth year.
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Don Keranen Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Your gift provides cash awards to students for Outstanding Jazz Musician and Most Improved Jazz Musician. Individuals who participate in the Jazz Lab Band and the Research and Development Big Band are eligible.
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Environmental Arts
Your gift to the Marian and John Irish Award for Environmental Art Fund supports an annual student award recognizing a junior or senior visual art student whose artistic work connects art and environmental awareness. Students who receive this award demonstrate a commitment to studio arts and to environmental stewardship. They also demonstrate creative leadership, either in their arts classes or in the arts projects they create in our community.
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Theatre Scholarship
Your gift to this new scholarship fund supports students in the Theatre and Entertainment Technology (B.S.) degree program. We are actively seeking gifts to support students in this growing major in the department.
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Bands, Choirs, and Orchestras
There are a number of ways to support our outstanding ensembles.
Choir
Your generous contribution to the Michigan Tech Choir Fund supports conScience: Michigan Tech Chamber Singers, as well as the Concert Choir. Your gift helps bring melodic voices to many different venues, supporting transportation, housing arrangements, music distribution and instrument/equipment repairs and purchases while on the road.
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Huskies Pep Band
Your gift to the Huskies Pep Band Fund supports one of the most recognized bands in all of college hockey. Your generosity supports equipment purchases.
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Huskies Pep Band Travel
Your generous contribution to the Huskies Pep Band Travel Fund puts stripes on the road to playoff games and community events, bringing Husky Cheer. Your generosity supports transportation, housing arrangements, music distribution and instrument/equipment repairs and purchases while on the road.
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Jazz Band
Your gift to the Jazz Band Fund supports the award-winning Michigan Tech Jazz Lab Band, Research and Development Jazz Band, and other jazz bands and ensembles. Your gift helps with travel, practice facilities, and equipment.
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Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra
Give now to the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra Fund and support student and community musicians. Your gift helps with travel, practice facilities, and equipment.
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Michigan Tech Bands
Your gift to the Michigan Tech Bands Fund provides support for the instrumental music program and university bands, including Superior Wind Symphony and the Campus Concert Band. The fund offers support for performances and academic programs, supplies, equipment, travel, hospitality, and guest artists.
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Performing and Visual Arts
There are a number of ways to support our outstanding performing and visual arts programs.
Theatre Arts
Give now to the Theatre Arts Fund. Your generous gifts help give students and audiences a chance to experience an age-old form of entertainment and enrichment, while exploring questions about the human experience. Theatre productions at Tech explore the intersection of traditional and new theatre technology.
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Visual Arts
Give now to the Visual Arts Fund. Your generous gifts allow all Tech students from diverse majors to express themselves and present their ideas through many creative media. Students learn to see, observe, and empathize while exploring new ways of creating works of art.
Give Now to the Visual Arts Fund