On August 6, MAF hosted its annual Auction for Education at the AIA/AGC Michigan Mid-Summer Conference on Mackinac Island. According to Bob Daverman, AIA, MAF Trustee and auction chair, “This year’s auction was an amazing success, raising $17,754 to support MAF’s architecture-related programs for creative children, career-minded high schoolers, and university students. In the past ten years, MAF’s Auction for Education has raised over $190,000, due to the generosity of our donors and the incredible interest of auction bidders. Their continued support is appreciated by MAF grant recipients.”
Additionally, MAF’s Auction for Education helps fund MAF’s Architecture Awareness Grants, which are awarded to organizations and individuals for programs, events, lectures, exhibits and more that advance the knowledge and appreciation of architecture throughout Michigan.
Programs that have benefitted from MAF’s Auction for Education include Project Pipeline Architecture Camp, which introduces minority and underrepresented students in grades 10-12 to careers in architecture. Run by architect (and MAF board member) Bryan Cook, AIA on behalf of the Detroit Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA Detroit), the program has received MAF Architecture Awareness Grant support since its inaugural year in 2016.
Other programs benefiting from MAF’s Auction for Education include MAF’s architecture-based free K-12 educational resources, ‘Architecture: it’s Elementary’ and ‘ArchiTreks’.
Architecture: it’s Elementary! is a multi-disciplinary educational curriculum designed to introduce students from kindergarten through grade five to architecture and the built environment through STEAM-related lessons and activities that engage their minds, bodies, and imaginations. ArchiTreks is a video program aimed at getting kids excited about architecture, science, and engineering through segments that take kids on neighborhood adventures to explore shapes, structures, landmarks, and preservation, and to pique curiosity about their surroundings.
Bob continues, “As a foundation, MAF is unique, strong, and diverse in its meaningful efforts in supporting human diversity, sustainability, and communities through our programs, scholarships and grants”. If you have any questions or wish to donate to the MAF Auction for Education, please reach out to Bob via email: bob@nulldavermanarchitecture.com.
Bob and the MAF Auction for Education committee wish to thank the following companies and individuals who made donations, and the success of the auction, possible. Thank you one and all!
Amical Traverse City
Tim Casai, FAIA
Barton Malow
Belden Brick Sales Company
Bells Brewery
Black Star Farms Winery
Randy Case, AIA
Chateau Chantal
The Christman Company – Amy Baumer & Ron Staley
Jan Culbertson, FAIA
Daverman Architecture
Lisa Demankowski, AIA
Anne Dorrance & Daniel Bollman AIA
Rae Dumke, Hon. AIA
Damian Farrell, FAIA
Fishbeck
Ghafari Associates
R.C. Hendrick & Son
Grand Hotel – Davidson Hotels & Resorts
Hobbs & Black Architects
The Homestead/Manitou Passage Golf Club
Hotel Walloon
IDS-Chuck Lewis, AIA
Albert Kahn and the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation
Kelley Cawthorne
Doug Kueffner, AIA
Carol Litka – Morgan Stanley
Mathison|Mathison Architects
Tom Mathison, FAIA
Vera Moore
Mike Neville, FAIA
Dominic Pangborn
PCIA – Mike Cosgrove
Plum Hollow Country Club
Cynthia Pozolo, FAIA
Danial Redstone, FAIA
Carl Roehling, FAIA
Shanty Creek Resorts
Rob Sharrow, AIA
Spence Brothers
Park Smith, AIA
SmithGroup
Les Tincknell, FAIAE
TMP Architecture
Testing Engineers and Consultants – Katherine Banicki
Traverse City Whiskey Co.
Bobby Leo Verazan
Dawn Zuber, FAIA