FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings
Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
SOUTH DAKOTA
City of Mobridge, South Dakota
Mobridge, SD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the conservation and restoration of a mural by Native American artist Oscar Howe (1915-83), who was employed by the Works Progress Administration in 1942. The mural in the Scherr Howe Auditorium depicts scenes of Native American life and life on the Missouri River. First Peoples Fund
Rapid City, SD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Engaging in the Power of Native Art, fellowship programs to promote Native American artists. The project will offer support to Native American artists through three programs: Cultural Capital, in which Natives receive training to research and document ancestral artifacts held in local and national museums; Artists in Business Leadership, which teaches marketing and business skills to mid-career Native Artists; and Community Spirit Awards which recognize artists who are sustaining tribes' culture, language, spiritual ceremonies, songs, and dances. South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, SD
$765,900
CATEGORY: Partnership
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities. South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and performance of a new orchestral work by Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, featuring the Creekside Singers and a Lakota drumming ensemble. As part of the orchestra's Lakota Music Project -- an initiative developed between 2005-08 through collaboration between the orchestra and the United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota to build bridges between Native Americans and non-Native Americans -- the work will be performed in Sioux Falls and on a tour to six South Dakota Indian Reservations and the surrounding communities.
Number of Grants: 4 Total Amount: $815,900
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