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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

MINNESOTA

Ananya Dance Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Ashesh Barsha, Never-ending Monsoon, an exploration of climate and environmental issues. Scheduled to premiere at the Southern Theater, the dance concert will be accompanied by an exhibition highlighting the research materials on which the choreography is based.

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Inc.
Red Wing, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support an outreach project that will include music performances, exhibitions, studio tours, and readings featuring artists from the Red Wing region and greater Minnesota. Selected authors, illustrators, and musicians will discuss their work in informal and formal presentations for audiences from southeast Minnesota.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of new works for young audiences. The theater will produce Fatebook: A Cyberspace Ghost Story, a new play for teen audiences by Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories, and will commission and develop a new play by Naomi Iizuka based on the Hmong version of Cinderella.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of poetry and fiction. Scheduled writers include Norah Labiner, Sam Savage, Gilbert Sorrentino, Mary Caponegro, Laird Hunt, Ted Mathys, and Adrian Castro.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an artist residency program. The project will include performances by the spoken-word ensemble Universes and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new multimedia evening-length work choreographed by artistic director Joanie Smith and performed by Shapiro & Smith Dance. The work, titled Medea Courting Disaster, will include text by playwright David Greenspan, music by composer Scott Killian, and a cast of eight dancers.

Flying Foot Forum, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of The Circus of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, an evening of percussive duets choreographed and performed by Flying Foot Forum's Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting. The work will premiere at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis.

FORECAST Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the publication of Public Art Review, which explores topics of interest in the public art field. In 2009, the journal will present issues on environmental sustainability in public art projects and the use of new media and technologies in public art projects.

Franconia Sculpture Park
Shafer, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Arts and Music Festival which will include guided tours of the sculpture park, live music, and poetry readings. The festival will celebrate new sculpture installations at the park. Past sculptors have included Lishan Chang, Melanie VanHouten, and Su-Chen Hung.

Graywolf Press
Saint Paul, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Dobby Gibson, D. A. Powell, Stephen Burt, Albert Goldbarth, Ellen Bryant Voight, Fred Marchant, and Mary Jo Bang.

Guthrie Theatre Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production and new staging of the musical Caroline, or Change (2004) by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/playwright Tony Kushner and Jeannine Tesori. Marcella Lorca will direct the musical masterwork on the Guthrie's Wurtele thrust stage with accompanying education and outreach activities.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc. (aka In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of a puppet and mask piece titled Ev'ry Voice. Laurie Witzkowski will direct the work that will explore the American civil rights movement through the songs that defined the era.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc. (aka Illusion Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of Beauty Is a Rare Thing, a new play by playwright/director Marion McClinton. The piece will be developed through the theater's Summer 2009 Fresh Ink new play series and will premiere on its mainstage.

Meek, Anna George
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Wayne Miller, Melissa Kwasny, Jody Gladding, J. C. Hallman, Christopher Merrill, and Jessica Lee Anderson.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (aka Minneapolis Institute of Arts) (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support planning for the exhibition Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Idea Photographic.  A pioneer in the modern art movement, Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) spurred a range of advances in photography and mixed media.

Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the American premiere of Pinocchio, by composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton. The opera is based upon the book by Carlos Collodi.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. The professional development project will be co-directed by the institute's composer and new music adviser Aaron Jay Kernis and artistic planning associate Beth Cowart.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production and tour of newly commissioned works that seek to engage Muslim populations. The project will include both a mainstage production and touring productions that will be performed in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.

Off-Leash Area: Contemporary Performance Works
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Ivan the Drunk and His Terrible Tale of Woe. Co-Artistic Directors Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse will collaborate with writer and dramaturg Max Sparber to create a tragicomic performance about the effects of war on individuals and society.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Saint Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Children's Festival of the Performing Arts. Artists from varying cultural backgrounds will perform in a variety of artistic genres in presentations targeted to children and their families.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Radio Golf by August Wilson. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new work in the Ruth Easton Lab. Producing Artistic Director Polly Carl will coordinate play development activities that will culminate in the Writer/Director Series and the annual Play Labs Festival.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a collaboration between Ragamala Music and Dance Theater and Cudamani Dance Company from Indonesia, with related outreach activities. The two companies will create and present Dhwee (Duality).

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of the Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine has a national circulation of 18,000 copies.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 50th Anniversary American Composers Project. The orchestra will perform new works by Steven Stucky, Patrick Zimmerli, and composer-in-residence Chen Yi.

Theater Mu Inc. (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Ching Chong Chinaman, a new play by Lauren D. Yee. The production will be directed by Jennifer Weir.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Witness program. An annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, the program will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 40th anniversary of VocalEssence.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Fertile Ground: Creative Residencies/Creative Connections. Large-scale commissioned works will be created on site and presented during the residency.

Worra, Bryan Thao
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Converging Traditions, a chamber music concert. The program will explore the intersection of American new music, traditional Chinese music, and Appalachian bluegrass and "old-time" music.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $768,000

 
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