FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

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

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Composer Apprentice National Outreach Endeavor. In partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Commission, Native American composers Brent Michael Davis and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and music educator Elizabeth Jaakola will teach orchestration and choral arranging to Native American students in Denver.

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,214,600
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ballet Works, Inc. (aka James Sewell Ballet)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of full-length evening performances, student matinee performances, and master classes in Rochester and St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Rochester performance will take place at the Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall, and the St. Cloud performance will take place at the Benedicta Arts Center.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a multi-state tour of educational music concerts. In-school performances will take place in rural and underserved communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.

Cedar Cultural Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the eighth annual Nordic Roots Festival. Music concerts and interactive vocal and instrumental workshops will feature a number of artists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in a week-long residency. The company will perform Views On Stage, Cunningham's first collaboration with sculptor Ernesto Neto, and offer education and outreach activities for students and adults.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. A series of two- to four-week artist residencies and a 10-week after-school program for students in the 3rd and 4th grade (in primarily Latino neighborhoods) will focus on the basic tenets of drama, performance, and script writing.

FORECAST Public Artworks
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the publication of Public Art Review. The next issue of the journal will explore the role of photography in the documentation and realization of public art works.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc. (aka Illusion Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$23,300
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Twin Cities Peer Education Residencies and the National Peer Education Program. The project will provide 25 communities in multiple states with theater arts education classes for urban and rural high school-aged youth.

Independent Feature Project-North (aka IFP MSP)
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support educational activities as well as access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region. More than 500 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a classic play. John Clark Donahue, former Artistic Director of the Children's Theater Company, will direct The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Artistic Director/Designer Bain Bochlke will design the set.

Library Foundation of Hennepin County
Minnetonka, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2006-07 Pen Pals Author Lecture Series. Promotion efforts will include print ads, public radio spots, and a mailing to more than 8,000 community members.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers, which will provide workshops and mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. The program will feature The Mentor Series, which connects nationally recognized writers with local writers through workshops and one-on-one instruction; and Talking Volumes, presenting recent original work by advanced writers to audiences throughout the Upper Midwest.

Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free concerts for the senior adult community. Free orchestral performances will be held at neighborhood concert sites in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. Sing Me a Home, the 12th annual program, will feature presentations of choral music that explore ideas of home, place, and sanctuary.

Minnesota Humanities Commission
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Authors on Tour, a program to send finalists and winners of the Minnesota Book Awards to small and mid-sized towns. Authors who have expressed interest include Charles Baxter, Jane Jeong Trenka, Robert Bly, Kent Meyers, Diane Glancy, and Bill Holm.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$125,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of classical music programming. In 2006-07, programs such as St. Paul Sunday and Pipedreams, broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra series, and a choral music series will reach millions of listeners each week.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development of arts segments for the radio magazine program Weekend America. Produced and distributed by American Public Media, the two-hour program features segments on news, issues of the week, and the diversity of American arts and culture.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$661,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Franklin Cultural Center (aka Franklin Art Works)
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition of a new series of work by the Los Angeles-based photographer Uta Barth. Franklin Art Works, located in a renovated silent-era theater, is devoted to presenting new work in solo exhibitions by local, national, and international artists.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support continuation of the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on themes in students' lives.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, distribution, and marketing of Studio 360. The series of weekly arts and culture radio programs designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of "The Global Hit" segments on the weekday news and information 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
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support bharatanatyam Indian classical dance workshops and master classes. Workshops will be led by bharatanatyam dancer/choreographer Alarmel Valli and will culminate with a public performance by Valli in conunction with the United States premiere screening of the documentary film Pravata -- The Dance of Alarmel Valli.

Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a Mississippi River concert tour performed by local and international youth. Concerts will take place on a floating barge along the river benefitting the Iowa communities of Lansing, Marquette, McGregor, Dubuque, and Bellevue.

Special School District #1 (aka Minneapolis Public Schools)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Bluegrass Review radio program. The show will contain interviews and commentary discussing bluegrass music in cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts.

Springboard for the Arts
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the expansion of the Artist Services program. Workshops, individual career counseling, and an online resource guide will be available to artists and organizations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support WASH: Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing. The project includes a symposium at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Caring for the Caregiver movement/expression workshops, and Satellite Events, which will include artistic collaborations by participants and be presented throughout the community.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Free performances will be targeted to low-income audiences in prisons, shelters, and housing projects.

Textile Center of Minnesota (aka Textile Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Never Static: Art Cloth Symposium, a national conference on fiber art. The series of workshops, seminars, and lectures will be held in Minneapolis and will serve fiber artists from across the country through an exploration of traditional and experimental surface design techniques.

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary on the comic strip artist Charles Schulz (1922-2000). Intended for primetime broadcast on PBS, Good Ol' Charles Schulz will be a 90-minute documentary examining the life and work of the creator of Peanuts.

Young Audiences of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an after-school arts education program for underserved K-12 students. In partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities, multidisciplinary performances and workshops will be conducted by professional artists at various sites.

Number of Grants: 32          Total Amount: $2,500,600

 
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