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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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
$1,505,990
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Artspace Projects, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support New Dance for New Audiences, an audience engagement project involving local dance companies and the new Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A partnership with James Sewell Ballet, the project will consist of community-building activities such as hosting in-studio events, assembling a shared mailing list, developing a networking portal on the Cowles Center website for the Twin Cities dance community, creating a base of well-informed dance advocates, assembling a Dance Ambassadors Circle, and expanding collaborative engagement activities for dance companies after the Cowles Center opens.

Artspace Projects, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Assistance Program. The program will partially underwrite the cost of 12 two-day feasibility consulting visits and two arts market surveys for 12 different U.S. communities with the goal of developing affordable arts facilities.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Cantus Media, a project to distribute recorded concerts and educational activities on the Internet. Plans for the project include the recording of all home concerts as well as the videotaping of educational activities which will be made available on the chorus's website (www.cantusonline.org), YouTube, and Facebook.

Commonweal Theatre Company
Lanesboro, MN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Christopher Sergal's adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Artistic Director Hal Cropp. The production will feature several members of Commonweal's resident-artist company and will be part of the theater's student matinee series, which includes $5 student tickets, access to context videos and study guides, pre-performance classroom visits by members of the cast, and post-performance discussions.

History Theatre, Inc. (aka Great American History Theatre) (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere of 1968: The Play (working title) that will run in conjunction with the St. Paul's History Center's installation 1968: The Exhibit (working title). In a partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, the theater has commissioned eight diverse and highly lauded playwrights to each create a 10-15 minute play to be curated and staged into a full-length work that depicts events during this influential year in United States history.

Hmong Cultural Center Inc. (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the development of a Hmong embroidery educational website. In collaboration with the Hmong Archives, the project will develop an educational website focused on embroidery archived in the Hmong Cultural Center and Hmong Archives collections in Saint Paul to include digital photographs and narrative descriptions of traditional and contemporary Hmong embroidery, baby carriers, and articles of clothing.

IFP-Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
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. Workshops include Elements of Screenwriting, Directing the Non-actor, and Documentary Bootcamp.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Artistic Director Bain Boehlke. The theater's interpretation of this renowned play will be informed by a contemporary mindset: tragedy equips one to act against lies.

Loft, Inc. (aka The Loft Literary Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Minnesota Program for Writers, which offers classes, mentorship opportunities, and workshops for writers of all levels. Additional events include readings, book clubs, and other opportunities for community members to engage in a dialogue with a range of prose, poetry, young adult, and children's writers.

Midway Contemporary Art
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Midway Contemporary Art Lecture and Conversation Series. Previous lecturers include New York sculptor Gedi Sibony, Los Angeles conceptual artist Lisa Lapinski, and Berlin-based sculptor/video artist David Zink Yi.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual BRIDGES community engagement program. Themed "A Gift of Song," the project will bring attention to the effects of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia through outreach workshops in choral singing and a public performance by the chorale featuring the Midwest premiere of Robert S. Cohen's Alzheimer's Stories (2009).

Minnesota Orchestral Association (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free outdoor community concerts. A partnership with the Plymouth Civic League, the project will feature performances in Plymouth, Excelsior, and Winona, Minnesota, and in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. (aka Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media)
St. Paul, MN
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and national radio broadcast of classical music programming. In 2011-12, programs such as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, and Pipedreams will reach a cumulative audience of as many as two million listeners each week.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$787,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance to Learn. In partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers will participate in professional development, collaborating with teaching artists to design integrative learning experiences through dance.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the collaboration of performing arts networks to develop a model for a National Directing & Ensemble Creation Institute for artists of color. Project partners will include the National Performance Network, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Alternate ROOTS, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, and others.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Chicago Avenue Project (CAP), a year-round program with acting and writing classes, one-act productions, and a writing retreat for youth. The primary goal of CAP is to engage students as actors, writers, theater artists and artisans through classes, rehearsals, and one-on-one contact with professional artists.

Playwrights' Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support New Plays on Campus Core Apprenticeships. In partnership with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the theater will provide undergraduate and graduate student playwrights and dramaturgs with script development workshops in the Playwrights' Center Lab as well as a year-long mentorship with a Playwrights' Center "Core Writer."

Public Art Saint Paul
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the conservation of the 1907 cast bronze sculpture of Johann Christof Frederich von Schiller by Ignatius Taschner (1871-1913) in Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota. A professional conservator will provide treatment to the sculpture, and establish a long-term maintenance strategy, integrated educational programming, and expansion of the citywide corps of volunteer public art stewards.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
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 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. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution 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 Public Radio International and WNYC-FM.

Ragamala Dance (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance form) work, The World of 1,001 Buddhas, choreographed by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswarmy. In partnership with The College of St. Scholastica, Ragamala will premiere the work at A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls and at the Mitchell Auditorium in Duluth alongside Tokara Taiko drummers and two chenda drummers.

Regents of the University of Minnesota (on behalf of Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth Campus)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support exhibitions by Native American artists. Guest curators will use the museum's collection and incorporate work by invited contemporary Native American artists that will provide countervailing, reinforcing, or context-shifting arguments.

Skylark Opera
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the fourth annual Summer Opera Festival. The event will take place at the E.M. Pearson Theatre at Concordia University in St. Paul and will present performances of two American works -- On the Town by composer Leonard Bernstein and The Vagabond King by composer Rudolf Friml.

Springboard for the Arts
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a pilot project for the replication of programs through two satellite partnerships. The project will help to create permanent, local resources for artists across a five-state region of the upper Midwest.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Cast from the River's Edge/The Boundary Waters Project, the creation and presentation of a new dance work during a residency in Ely, Minnesota. A company repertory program will be followed by two weeks of daily workshops and rehearsals with area residents, leading to the creation and presentation of a new work.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Il Campiello by Carlo Goldoni. Artistic Director Michelle Hensley will direct the 18th-century commedia inspired piece, which centers on a small square in an Italian town and the life of its four working class families on a day in which a mysterious stranger from the upper class comes to visit.

Theater Latte-Da
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a re-imagining of The Fantasticks directed by Peter Rothstein. The production will feature an intergenerational cast with actors ages 70-80 in the leading roles.

Upstream Arts, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support arts residencies in special education classrooms of Minneapolis public elementary, middle, and high schools. Local professional actors, dancers, and musicians will lead interactive activities to teach the fundamentals of arts forms while developing and strengthening the social and communication skills of students with disabilities.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Conception and Perception, a series of commissions, residencies, and presentations of large-scale performance works. All artists will take part in public programs such as open rehearsals, Q&A sessions, readings, panel discussions, and school performances.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $3,271,090

 
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