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2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the expansion of the innova® Recordings label. This project will broaden American Composer Forum's recording services to composers and performers.

Asian Media Access
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the seventh annual Chinese Film Showcase. The curated film series will feature films and videos from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber music concert and residency activities. The Four Nations Ensemble, a period-instrument early music ensemble, will be presented in concert and will take part in a five-day residency at a St. Cloud elementary school.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an intensive play development laboratory to create theater for multigenerational audiences. Threshold 2002 will include the development of The King of Children by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and the main stage production of The Beggars' Strike by playwright Carlyle Brown and composer Kysia Bostic.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of "new and selected" works by established writers of fiction and poetry. Scheduled writers include Jack Marshall, Anne Waldman, Quincy Troupe, Maxine Chernoff and Jonis Agee.

Forecast Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the publication of Public Art Review, a journal detailing trends and new projects in the public art field. One issue will focus on the history of public art projects and the second will examine the notion of "agit-prop" public art.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$55,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Linda Gregg, Eamon Grennan, Natasha Trethewey, Nick Flynn, Kim Stafford and Jorie Graham.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new theater work. Speakeasy, or the Bootleg Gentleman by playwright Michael Bogdanov will be presented during the 2002 main stage season.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new theater work. The Nightingale by Martha Beosing will be presented during the 2002 main stage season.

James Sewell Ballet (Ballet Works, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performance and education activities in Rochester, MN. The company will perform at the Mayo Civic Center and teach master classes at the Rochester Ballet School.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be choreographed by Danny Buraczeski and a jazz score will be composed by Philip Hamilton.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and production of a new theater work. Snow Days, by Craig Wright, will be presented during the 2003 main stage season.

Labiner, Norah
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers, which presents readings by established authors and provides mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. Mentors committed to the project include Victor Hernandez Cruz, Agymah Kamau, Dorianne Laux and Amy Bloom.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program that will assist mid-career artists who use book arts as their primary visual art form. The residency will provide artists with the opportunity to explore state-of-the-art printing technologies in an industrial production facility to create original works.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2002 Koch's International Children's Festival. The festival is a weeklong event featuring international artists performing multidisciplinary works and includes educational components for children ages four to 12.

Park Square Theatre
St. Paul, MN
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the area premiere of Side Show. The creator and writer of the musical, Bill Russell, will direct the production.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new theater work. Laurie Carlos will direct Con Flama by Sharon Bridgforth.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the PlayLab program. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays.

Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Witness program featuring commissions of new work by composers Patrice Rushen and Bobby McFerrin along with the works of neglected and forgotten composers. The program in January 2002 by the Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers, Chorus, and Orchestra will include educational events, a young people's concert, a school residency program, and national broadcasts on public radio.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of WorDance. The cross-cultural work by the Ragamala Music and Dance Theater and the Ko-Thi Dance Company will be performed at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul, MN.

Shapiro + Smith (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation and presentation of new works. The works will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York City, the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, and on tour in the United States.

Theater MU, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new collaborative theater work. Artistic Director Rick Shiomi will collaborate with Marcus Quiniones to create a new play Temple of Dreams that examines the Filipino American history in Hawaii.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. The company will present a new adaptation of Euripides' Medea.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
(on behalf of the Weisman Art Museum)
$55,000
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre and Film in Early 20th-Century American Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major exhibition and publication to explore the art inspired by the visual culture of American popular entertainment from 1890 to 1930.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Intersections: New Works in Community. This series of commissions and residencies by contemporary performing arts innovators will deepen the community's understanding of and appreciation for the creative process.

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of new works by composers Jin Hi Kim and Brent Michael Davids including residency activities. Premieres and residency activities will take place in the spring of 2002 at the Southern Theater and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Total Dollars Awarded: $667,000
Total Grants Awarded: 27


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