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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music

To support Choral Connections, a national conference for choral composers and conductors. In partnership with VocalEssence, the conference will include performances and sessions on creating choral works and recording/distribution in the digital age.

Cedar Cultural Center, Inc. (aka The Cedar)
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Roots Festival. Free performances by such artists as Ana Tijoux (Chile), Boubacar Troure (Mali), Sergent Garcia (France) and Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Italy), will be complemented by workshops and lectures at the University of Minnesota, demonstrations, and film screenings.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a residency by the Escher String Quartet and a concert featuring the quartet with mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. Prior to the concert, the quartet will participate in various outreach activitiesat local schools, the Boys & Girls Club, and a senior center located in this central Minnesota community.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Harold and the Purple Crayon, adapted by Don Darryl Rivera from the book by Crockett Johnson, and the continued development of Fancy Dancer, a new work by Larissa FastHorse, commissioned by the theater. Harold and the Purple Crayon tells the story of a confident and resourceful child who guides us through the paradoxes of an alternate reality; Fancy Dancer is an autobiographical piece about the playwright's career as a Native American artist in the European art form of ballet.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled writers include Judith Kitchen, Kei Miller, Amanda Nadelberg, Wang Ping, Sun Yung Shin, Sotere Terregian, and Quincy Troupe.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residency activities and multidisciplinary performances at the Benedicta Arts Center. Dance company Abraham in Motion and performance troupe Spirit of Uganda will participate in activities in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Minnesota and the local school district.

Franconia Sculpture Park
Shafer, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies and an exhibition program for emerging and established artists. Ten artists are provided with housing, work space, technical and studio assistance, materials, stipends and exhibition space.

Graywolf Press
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of volumes of fiction and poetry by emerging and mid-career authors. This project includes new works by writers from Mexico, Ireland, England, China, Norway, France, and India, together with an imaginative new translation of Dante's Inferno from Mary Jo Bang.

History Theatre, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final development and world premiere of Nellie by Kim Hines with direction by Richard D. Thompson. The play depicts the Minnesota civil rights and labor activist Nellie Stone Johnson, who successfully organized workers in the 1920s and later connected with Hubert Humphrey to become his guiding conscience on civil rights.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$16,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Hidebound, adapted from a series of plays by Erik Ehn, titled Soulographie. Hidebound will explore the conquest and genocide of the indigenous population in Mexico by Spain and the United States through the story of a family relocating to Mexico.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$47,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include D.Y. Béchard, Matthew Eck, Jim Heynen, Christopher Howell, Sally Keith, Amy Leach, and Eric Pankey.

Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of community concerts featuring baritone Peter Halverson. In partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Department, the organization will bring seniors to Nicollet Island Pavilion for as many as four concerts. An additional concert will be performed for the community in Elliot Park.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a national and international book artist residency program. The program will provide an honorarium, materials budget, travel support, studio space, facilities, and technical support to as many as six national and international book artists for short (two-week) and long (3 month) residencies.

Minnesota Opera
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Jules Massenet's Werther. This production will set the opera on the eve of the Industrial Age in the late 1800s rather than when Goethe set the story, during the Romantic Era, a century earlier.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, a professional development project directed by the institute's composer and new music adviser Aaron Jay Kernis. As many as eight composers, selected competitively from a pool of 150, will participate in the week-long institute, which will enable them to hear first-hand their work performed by a full orchestra.

Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a public performance featuring James Sewell Ballet with live accompaniment by the Arsenal Trio, as well as workshops for local dance students and other outreach activities. James Sewell Ballet will provide a movement program for older adults and a school-day performance for elementary school students.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a series of new plays about the challenges of living in a pluralistic world. Plays will include Learn to Be Latina by Enrique Urueta, Crashing the Party by Josh Tobiessen, and a bilingual production of Minnecanos by Joe Minjares and Tomas Benitez.

Northern Lights.mn
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the outdoor festival Northern Spark. This multidisciplinary festival, held at night along the Mississippi River, commissions local and national artists to create installations, performances, screenings, and participatory arts programming in public places throughout the Twin Cities.

Open Eye Figure Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of a new puppet theater production of The Sorcerer's Apprentice based on Goethe's original poem. Visually inspired by photographs of a set created by Roger Hayward in the early 1930s, the work will be performed by four puppeteers, with puppets designed by a student artist from the University of Connecticut, and will be accompanied by three live musicians performing an original score written by Minneapolis composer Michael Koerner.

Park Square Theatre Company
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a commissioned work, American Family, inspired by the 1964 film One Potato, Two Potato, by playwright Carlyle Brown. The play explores the life challenges faced by bi-racial children and trans-racial families as it portrays a woman's childhood memories of being taken away from her mother and new half-brother when her biological father regains custody.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Ruth Easton Lab for new play development. With a focus on developing and promoting the scripts and careers of the Center's competitively selected Core Writers, the Lab's activities include developmental workshops with full artistic teams for scripts-in-progress and the expansion of the Partnership Initiative, which consists of efforts to connect writers with producing theaters through invited events and travel support.

Ragamala Dance
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic directors Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy. The work, titled 1001 Buddhas, is inspired by the 12th-century Sanjusangendo temple in Kyoto, Japan, famous for its 1001 life-sized statues of Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, and will illustrate the journey of mythology and deity from the Hindu temples of India to the Buddhist temples of Japan.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, distribution, and online presence of the Rain Taxi Review of Books. The free magazine includes in-depth interviews; profiles of small, independent, and university presses; essays by writers on their favorite authors; and reviews of current fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and works in translation.

Regents of the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Northrop Dance series. Artistic companies Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai (China), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Ballet Preljocaj (France) will be presented to the Minneapolis community.

Rose Ensemble
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance project of 16th and 17th-century works for wind band and voices in collaboration with Piffaro, the Philadelphia-based Renaissance wind ensemble. Programming will be based on manuscripts from Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Living Composers Project featuring premiere performances of new works by composers Gerald Barry, Giorgio Battistelli, and Donnacha Dennehy, as well as works by Du Yun, John Harbison, Steve Mackey and Betty Olivero. Concert venues will include the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Ted Mann Concert Hall, Temple Israel, Wooddale Church, and St. Paul's United Church of Christ in the Twin Cities area, as well as Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater and Benson Great Hall in Arden Hills.

Soap Factory
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the architectural design of a new building entry for the organization's facility, the former National Purity Soap Company building. The design will be developed through community charrettes and will be submitted for public hearings to the City of Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission and the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office.

Theater Mu, Inc. (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Saint Paul, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by Asian American playwright A. Rey Pamatmat, directed by Randy Reyes. The play tells the coming-of-age story of two Filipino teenage siblings and a friend in remote Middle America without parental supervision, and the discovering of gay identity.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Witness: In the Spirit of Being, an annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, featuring American jazz trumpeter and composer Hannibal Lokumbe. The week-long festival, following two months of outreach presentations by Lokumbe and members of the chorus, will include a public concert held in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, highlighting the composer's new work, In the Spirit of Being.

Youth Performance Company
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and production of Echoes of Rondo, written and directed by artistic director Jacalyn Knight, composed and choreographed by Kahlil Queen, and performed by teen artists. The musical will portray young people during the 1960s' obliteration of the African American Rondo neighborhood due to the construction of Interstate 94, and the current dissemination of people in St. Paul, Minnesota, due to the construction of the Central Corridor light rail transit line.


Number of Grants: 30          Total Amount: $731,000

 
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