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.

NORTH DAKOTA

Jamestown Fine Arts Association, Inc. (aka The Arts Center)
Jamestown, ND
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of artist residencies in partnership with the Ave Maria Village nursing home. Proposed artists include storyteller and NEA National Heritage Fellow Mary Louise Defender Wilson, writer Deborah Ford, weaver Lila Hauge-Stoffel, and painter Pieper Bloomquist, who will work with the nursing home's residents. Residency activities will include the creation of stories or writings based on the elders' oral histories, and corresponding paintings-all of which will be compiled as a manuscript for public distribution.

Nelson County Arts Council
Pekin, ND
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of artist residencies in partnership with the Nelson County Health System Care Center. Proposed artists include storyteller and NEA National Heritage Fellow Mary Louise Defender Wilson, writer Deborah Ford, weaver Lila Hauge-Stoffel, and painter Pieper Bloomquist, who will work with the elder residents of the center. Residency activities will include the creation of stories or writings based on the elders' oral histories, and corresponding paintings - all of which will be compiled as a manuscript for public distribution.

Northern Lights Arts Council
Langdon, ND
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of artist residencies in partnership with the Maple Manor Care Center. Proposed artists include storyteller and NEA National Heritage Fellow Mary Louise Defender Wilson, writer Deborah Ford, weaver Lila Hauge-Stoffel, and painter Pieper Bloomquist, who will work with the residents of Maple Manor. Residency activities will include the creation of stories or writings based on the elders' oral histories, and corresponding paintings-all of which will be compiled as a manuscript for public distribution.

Northern Prairie Performing Arts (aka Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre)
Fargo, ND
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre's professional company, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Youth-oriented plays will be presented to students in schools in North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

Spirit Room (aka Spirit Room Galleries)
Fargo, ND
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support an exhibition of work by repoussé (a metalworking technique) artist Norik Y. Astvatsaturov. Related project activities will include a documentary video about Astvatsaturov, interpretive panels, and a series of artist lectures.

Number of Grants: 5          Total Amount: $55,000

 
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