Awards, Honors and Recognition

A Model for Youth Development through the Arts

• In Mosaic's history, more than 95% of the Youth Ensemble Artists have graduated from high school and have gone on to college.

• Mosaic alums annually receive college scholarships and are heavily recruited by many of the nation's top universities. Miami University in Ohio has created a scholarship specifically for Mosaic alums.

Awards

• 2006 Best Managed Nonprofit by Crain’s Detroit Business

• In 2006 successfully raised $3.5 million during the “Imagine Their Next Stage Capital Campaign.

• 2006 Best Managed Nonprofit by Crain’s Detroit Business

• In 2006 successfully raised $3.5 million during the, Imagine Their Next Stage Capital Campaign.

• 2006 And They Flew: The Story of Mosaic Youth Theatre wins the Michigan EMMY Award for Best Documentary Cultural, produced by Katherine Weider, Felicia Jamieson and Matthew Zacharias

• 2005 – 2nd place in the Community/Church Choir competition of The National
Association of Negro   Musicians, Inc. International Spiritual Choral Competition

• 2005 – The Historical Society of Michigan State History Award for Special Program

• 2005 – The American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Ann Flagg Multicultural Award.

• 2005 - The Youth Sports and Recreation Commission’s Leonard Smith Award for
Organizational Excellence

• 2004 – National Conference for Community and Justice’s William Beckham Community Service Award for The Children of Abraham Project

• 2003 - Selected to participate in an international youth arts exchange in Dakar, Senegal

• 2003 - Youth Sports and Recreation Commission’s Leonard Smith Award for
Organizational Excellence Honorable Mention for Outstanding Youth Services

• 2003 – Recognized as Detroit Public Schools’ Office of Career and Technical Education Cooperative Education Employer

• 2003 - Recognized by the Michigan Veterans Foundation for “Dust Off 2003”

• 2002 - Wayne County Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wayne County

• 2002 - Publisher’s Excellence Wilde Award from Between The Lines

• 2001 - Selected to participate in an international youth arts exchange in Singapore 

• 2000 - The United States Conference of Mayors recognized Mosaic as an exemplary program reaching at-risk youth.

• 2000 - Selected as the sole U.S. Representative to World Youth Theatre Festival in London, England.

• 1999 - Acknowledged by Detroit Recreation Department for the EZ Arts Brigade
Anti-Violence Program

• 1999 - National Endowment of the Arts’ Coming Up Taller Award - presented during a White House ceremony by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities

• 1998 – The prestigious Governors’ Award for Arts and Culture: One of only 3 Michigan cultural organization awardees - in recognition of Mosaic’s “outstanding contributions regionally and statewide.”

• 1996 - Selected as the Sole U.S. Representative to the World Festival of Children’s Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• 1996 - Detroit Monthly Magazine and Detroit CBS TV-62 Best of Detroit Award as the city’s Best Role Model

• Mosaic Youth Theatre has traveled the world and performed in Singapore; London, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Dakar, Senegal, where they were invited to sing with the African Roots Choir in 2003. In the United States, they have entertained crowds on the campuses of Cornell University, Julliard, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Tennessee State University, Tougaloo College, and many other schools, as well as at The Kennedy Center and The White House. The Mosaic Singers have been honored to open for Al Green, Pete Seeger, Aretha Franklin, Sweet Honey in the Rock and The Temptations. They have also been chosen to perform at numerous major events including the final game at Tiger Stadium, the 2006 Detroit Mayoral Inauguration, visits from the United States President, for Michigan’s Governor Granholm, and at several of the Super Bowl XL Festivities.