2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

MINNESOTA

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,186,400
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (on behalf of Lee@aboutchat.org)
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production and tour of plays about Hmong culture and history in Minnesota and Wisconsin. A touring company of Hmong actors will perform a repertory of four plays developed to educate audiences about Hmong traditions and heritage and to create dialogue about social issues within the Hmong community.

Dale Warland Singers (consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a consortium project to inventory, catalog, and transfer the chorus's 32-year historical archive and music library to a permanent repository. The archives will be at the University of Minnesota Library, making the contents more easily accessible to scholars, choral directors, composers, and the general public.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Arts InFusion Project. The project provides teachers and administrators retreats and other professional development activities as well as in-school artists residencies that integrate arts into the school curriculum for elementary school students in East St. Paul.

Galumph Interactive Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a theater-based program for high school-aged students with special needs. The semester-long project will guide students through a series of puppet and mask performances supported by ongoing story-writing classes with professional artists and educators.

In Progress
St. Paul, MN
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Fresh Voices. The digital arts project targets Latino youth in urban and rural Minnesota communities and will guide them through the experience of creating expressive pieces of artwork using new technologies, such as digital photography and digital video cameras.

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Cass Lake, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Children's Juried Art Show. After-school workshops in Ojibwe traditional crafts, drumming, and dancing as well as painting, drawing, and theatre will culminate in exhibitions and performances at the 7th Annual Northern Woodland Winterfest, a celebration of Ojibwe art and culture.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the re-pressing and distribution of a 12 compact disc collection of recordings of historic performances by the Minnesota Orchestra. The set will be distributed to 1,000 music conservatories, schools of music, public libraries, and historical societies at no cost to recipients.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support an arts journalism initiative. Minnesota Public Radio will provide reporting on the arts on its national news and cultural programs, its regional network news service, its news and information service in southern California, and its Web site, mpr.org.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production and national broadcast of classical music programming. In 2004-05, St. Paul Sunday, Pipedreams, and broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra series will reach millions of listeners each week.

Minnesota STAR, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the sixth annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional music and children's theater from Scandinavian countries.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$655,800
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Performance Lab
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Building the Network: New Strategies for Residencies and Coaching in the Performing Arts. Using technology as an interactive tool in arts education and performance, high school students will learn dance and theater skills and techniques.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support expansion of the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on a common theme.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production, distribution, and marketing of Studio 360, a weekly arts and culture radio program. Designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of PRI and WNYC/FM.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support production of The Global Hit segments on the weekday news and information radio program, The World. The daily feature showcases world music for American audiences, offering listeners a unique perspective on other cultures through the medium of music.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project for the remounting of Bhakti (devotion). Ragamala and the Southern Theater will co-present the work, choreographed by Aparna Ramaswamy, in collaboration with composer/vocalists Ruth MacKenzie and Nirmala Rajasekar.

MINNESOTA total grants: 17
MINNESOTA total dollars: $2,391,200

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