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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

MINNESOTA

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,390,800
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 performances in Fergus Falls and Rochester, Minnesota. The James Sewell Ballet will also offer free matinee performances for students, workshops, and related residency activities.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a multi-state series of vocal festivals and in-school residencies focused on American repertoire. Works by composers Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson, Leonard Bernstein, William Dawson, and Stephen Hatfield will be studied and performed during each day-long festival involving elementary, middle, and high school students.

Cedar Cultural Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 10th annual Nordic Roots Festival. Music and dance concerts and interactive vocal and instrumental workshops will feature a number of artists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a performance of American chamber music and residency activities by the chamber ensemble eighth blackbird. Repertoire will include Steve Reich's Double Sextet and a suite by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

Franconia Sculpture Park
Shafer, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Fall Arts & Music Festival. Related activities include docent tours of the twenty-acre sculpture park, music performances, and poetry readings.

Hmong Cultural Center, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Hmong Funeral Songs Instruction Program. The project will teach teens and young adults the songs associated with traditional Hmong funeral ceremonies.

IFP-Minneapolis (aka IFP-MN)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support educational activities, access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region, and a screening series. Approximately 650 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Intermediate District 287
Plymouth, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Youth Expressions Project, a theater education program. Students at two special education sites will conceptualize, develop, and perform a theater arts project as a creative and empowering expression of their life experiences.

Loft, Inc. (aka Loft Literary Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers. Events will include readings and on-air interviews with nationally recognized authors, and workshops and mentors for emerging writers.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Learning With Music. Professional teaching artists will provide weekly classroom music and arts-integrated lessons to 300 children, ages three to eight, as well as provide onsite professional development and training to early childhood teachers and assistants.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program for disadvantaged teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops in the art of bookmaking and guide youth participants through the process of creating a book to display in a culminating exhibition.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual BRIDGES outreach program. The chorus will premiere a new work by composer Stephen Paulus.

Minnesota Humanities Center
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Authors in Communities, a program to send finalists and winners of the Minnesota Book Awards to small, rural towns statewide. Visits will be held in local libraries to strengthen the library's position as a central cultural resource in the community and to foster an intimate exchange between artists and audiences.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$225,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and national broadcast of classical music programming. In 2008-09, programs such as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, St. Paul Sunday (to be renamed), and Pipedreams will reach millions of listeners each week.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support, through a Chairman's extraordinary action award, the 2007 National Accessibility Leadership Award for the expansion of an accessibility initiative, "Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities." The Minnesota State Arts Board was selected to be the winner of the 2007 National Accessibility Leadership Award for its innovative work in the field of accessibility. The award will support technical assistance to the state's arts organization and regional arts councils; shared equipment for audio description, captioning, and assisted listening; and professional development workshops for artists with disabilities.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$775,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

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

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 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.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   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 society is a co-production of PRI and WNYC-FM.

Springboard for the Arts
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the regional expansion of the Artist Services program. Workshops, individual career counseling, an online resource guide, and a training program that creates permanent local resources in small communities will be available to artists and organizations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa.

Ten Thousand Things Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Free performances will be targeted to low-income audiences in prisons, shelters, and housing projects.

Textile Center of Minnesota (aka Textile Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a Shibori Symposium at the Textile Center. A Japanese term for methods of dyeing cloth with a pattern by manipulating the fabric, shibori is created by stitching, binding, compressing, folding, or twisting.

VSA arts of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support an artist residency with Guinean dancer/musician Sidiki Conde and balafonist Balla Kouyate. The series of school and community presentations will culminate with a performance by Tokounou, an ensemble created by Conde and Kouyate.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$95,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the remounting of John Cage and Merce Cunningham's Ocean (1994) within the Rainbow Quarry near St. Cloud, Minnesota. Inside a massive amphitheater cut into granite, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will perform on a circular stage, surrounded by the audience and 150 classical musicians from the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and four state college orchestras.

Walker Art Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Art Today and Tomorrow, a visual arts education program. In collaboration with the Minneapolis Public Schools, the program will provide opportunities for teachers to incorporate concepts and practices of contemporary artists into their teaching and integrated arts curriculum.

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Reflections, a concert program of American chamber music. Works by American composers John Cage, Terry Riley, and Frederic Rzewski will be featured in performances and discussions presented at the ensemble's Studio Z in St. Paul, with subsequent performances at St. Cloud State University, University of Minnesota-Duluth, and New York Mills (MN) Regional Cultural Center.


Number of Grants: 27          Total Amount: $2,971,700

 
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