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FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Alive and Composing in the 21st-Century, a series of three conferences on the art and business of being a composer, each with panel discussions, performances, and workshops broadcast live over the Internet. The conferences will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Los Angeles, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 11th Annual Chinese Film Showcase. Generation Gap in Chinese Cinema: The New vs. Old; the Emerging vs. Established will feature screenings of 20-25 films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan as well as panel discussions and an educational program booklet.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (CHAT)
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Hmong! The CIA Secret Army, a play based on historical accounts of Hmong contributions to the United States during the Vietnam War.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music concerts, residency activities, and outreach activities for area schools and student ensembles. Artists to be presented include the Miró String Quartet and eighth blackbird.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Children's Theatre Company)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support world premiere productionsof a new work with accompanying educational and community activities. Naomi Iizuka's play Anon(ymous) recasts and adapts The Odyssey by Homer; the Uganda Project by Lynn Nottage will be based on the true story of a theater troupe of AIDS orphans.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Writers scheduled for publication include Quincy Troupe, Sarah Fox, Greg Hewett, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Wang Ping.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Authors scheduled for publication include Tom Sleigh, Linda Gregg, Stephen Burt, Tess Gallagher, Don Paterson, Harryette Mullen, Martha Collins, Jane Kenyon, and Donald Revell.

Guthrie Theater Foundation (Guthrie Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Educational programs will include pre-and post-show discussions with artistic staff; comprehensive study guides for educators and students, and intergenerational audience opportunities.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. Puppeteer and writer Andre Kim will direct Gotama: The Journey of the Man Who Would Become the Buddha; Masanari Kawahara will design puppets and masks and perform in the production.

Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Visiting Artist Residency and Publishing Program. The project will enable five artists from five continents to create and exhibit original editions in the print medium of their choice.

Hmong Cultural Center Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support video clips of Hmong traditional music and orally recited songs to be featured on the LearnaboutHmong.com Web site. The recordings will capture artists performing a series of funeral ceremonies using the qeej (a ceremonial flute), orally recited marriage songs, and two string violin songs.

Indian Music Society of Minnesota (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project for the Masters of Percussion concert. In partnership with the Pangea World Theater, the concert will be preceded by a percussion workshop and lecture-demonstration led by North Indian master tabla drummer and 1999 NEA National Heritage Fellow Zakir Hussain.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation of Northern Lights, Southern Cross: Tales from the Other Side of the World, a multidisciplinary performance work that will challenge society's views about disability. Collaborators include director Jeanne Calvit, storyteller Kevin Kling, and the Tutti Ensemble.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books by emerging and mid-career writers. Authors scheduled for publication include Tom Crawford, Jim Armstrong, Mary Rose O'Reilley, I. Allan Sealy, and Kathleen Soniat.

Minnesota Center for Photography
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition, catalogue, and public programming examining the Three Gorges Dam construction project in China. The exhibition of photographs will document the world's largest hydroelectric dam along the Yangtze River and its impact on the surrounding land and people.

Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the American premiere of a new production of Saverio Mercadante's 1846 opera Orazi e Curiazi. The rarely performed bel canto opera dramatizes the struggle between family and duty during a war between the Romans and the neighboring Albans.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$26,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Point of Revue, a new work comprising short plays by African and African American playwrights. More than 15 writers have been commissioned to co-create a snapshot of contemporary black America.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Stephen Jeffrey's play, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, which tells the story of two blues musicians at crossroads in their lives. Local colleges and universities will partner on related symposia on the state of African American culture.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 24th annual PlayLabs Festival. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays by bringing together theater professionals and playwrights for workshops and play readings.

Playwrights' Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support New Plays on Campus Initiative, a consortium project. With the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the project will provide professional playwrights with residencies, workshops, classes, readings, and productions at colleges and universities.

Plymouth Music Series, Inc. (VocalEssence)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Witness program. An annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, the program will focus on the life and work of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) in a young people's concert, a residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, a commissioned work by Alvin Singleton, and regional and national broadcasts on public radio.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a consortium project for the re-mounting of Sethu (Bridge) in collaboration with the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sethu will also be performed at the Bali Arts Festival in Indonesia. The project will include student matinees, pre-show talks by the artists, and question-and-answer sessions.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. Distributed free-of-charge to independent bookstores and other venues, the magazine includes in-depth interviews; prfiles of small, independent, and university presses, essays, and reviews.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Living Composers Project. In addition to performances of contemporary works and a week-long festival celebrating the life and works of American composer Elliot Carter, the orchestra will perform works by Philip Glass, John Harbison, George Tsontakis, Arvo Part, and Henri Dutilleux.

Schubert Club, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the third annual Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, a 10-day event focusing on the art song through recitals, master classes, and lectures. The festival will culminate in a free public performance and is expected to attract an audience of 3,000 with an additional 1 million national radio broadcast listeners.

Theater Mu Incorporated (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical. The Street Sweeper, by Rick Shiomi and composer/lyricist Kurt Miyashiro, will be based on the Benito folk tales of the Philippines and feature taiko drumming and martial arts movement.

Walker Art Center, Inc. (Walker Art Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Vital Connections: Connecting Contemporary Performance with Community. Large-scale, commissioned projects will support artists in the on-site creation and presentation of new work, including a six-hour re-creation of The Great Gatsby by New York City theater group Elevator Repair Service.


Number of Grants: 27          Total Amount: $694,500

 
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