Announcing the 2025 Birmingham Bloomfield Cultural Arts Awards Honorees
Our 30th Year
Bryan Frink,
“A Musical Driving Force”
2025 Birmingham Bloomfield Cultural Arts Award
A lawyer by trade, he’s a force within his own neighborhood as “creator, performer, participant and enthusiast of the arts.” Bryan Frink shares his home studio as a nurturer and supporter of local as well as nascent musicians and students with special needs: he is their muse; a volunteer, philanthropist, and, in the spirit of community, the host with his wife of an annual summer music
festival on their front lawn, “Frinkstock.”
Robert Schefman,
“Brushstroke Bard”
Special Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Schefman is a ‘’storyteller with a paintbrush.” He is a celebrated local painter and sculptor of national renown: his works are in museums and private collections across the country, and his awards include the Kresge Artist Foundation Fellowship in Visual Art, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Bernard Maas Prize, ArtServe Michigan Artist Grant, The Arts Foundation of Michigan, Sculpture Space, Inc, and the University of Iowa. Schefman is Professor Emeritus at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he spent 20 years teaching and mentoring students, and prior to that taught youth and adult classes at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, impacting several generations of artists in the community. He has served as mentor, juror, lecturer and a panelist; a lifetime of dedication to his own oeuvre and to the arts community.
Birmingham Musicale,
“One Hundred Years of Music”
Partners with the Arts Award
Celebrating 100 years giving concerts, fostering talented young musicians, and performing community service.
