2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$1,114,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ballet Arts Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support expansion of the City Children's Nutcracker Project. The project offers free dance education and professional caliber performance opportunities for children in Minneapolis' low-income neighborhoods.

Children's Theatre Company and School (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$65,000
To support the Teen Collective. The two-year project is designed to form a diverse company of teenagers who will receive training and mentoring from local and nationally recognized theater artists.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$50,000
To support the Peer Education Theatre Program to be conducted with adults and high school youth in rural and urban communities. Illusion Theater artists will train individuals in schools, communities and juvenile detention facilities to develop and perform plays centered on issues of importance to them and their communities.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc. (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the expansion and maintenance of the Intermedia Arts Collection. This archive of regional work will grow to include 35 mm slides, media art, performance documentation, interviews and corporate records gathered over the organization's 30-year history.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will present Musical Chi: East-West Convergences, a weeklong residency by t'ai chi master and author Chungliang Al Huang, in partnership with the Minnesota Chorale and pipa virtuosa Gao Hong.

Minnesota Dance Alliance
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$28,000
To support phase one of Dance Imprints, a new residency and performance program. The project will connect dance artists to new communities and expand dance activities in geographically diverse areas throughout the Midwest.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support Discovering Great Music, a music education project with Minneapolis public schools. Activities will include youth concerts, teacher workshops, development of curriculum guides and classroom visits to students.

Minnesota STAR, Inc. (Cedar Cultural Center)
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support the Fifth Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional roots-based music from Scandinavian countries and a collaborative dance performance.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors and directors work with inner-city children to create theater productions organized around a common theme.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$65,000
To support the production, distribution and marketing of Studio 360 in 2003-2004. A weekly arts and culture radio program designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co production of PRI and WNYC/FM.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing symposium. The symposium will explore strategies for integrating artistic expression and healing.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$11,000
To support touring performances of a highly physical production of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan to audiences at prisons, shelters and centers serving low-income communities. The production was the first ever undertaken by the company, and will mark the company's 10th anniversary in the Twin Cities.

St. Joseph

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support a residency and the commissioning of a work by Diavolo Dance Theater. The residency will involve several partners including area teachers, the College of Saint Benedict Theater Department, Anna Marie's Shelter for battered women and Casa Guadalupe, a Hispanic community organization.

St. Paul

American Composers Forum (consortium)
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$85,000
To support the translation to CD-ROM format of curriculum for additional works in the BandQuest commissioning series. The project assists middle school students and teachers in meeting National Standards for Arts Education through an electronic, interactive course in band music.

Center for Arts Criticism
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support expansion of Sisters in Leadership (Ogichidaakweg). This media arts and criticism project, targeted to young Anishinabe women from the Leech Lake Nation, will provide video and digital photography instruction as a means for giving a public voice to important community issues.

COMPAS, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$33,000
To support continuation of ArtsWork, an arts-based youth employment program. During the summer, students will be employed as apprentices to professional artists to create artwork and performances that will be exhibited to the public.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the Arts InFusion Project. A series of artist residencies will be designed as a means to integrate the arts into the basic school curriculum of three schools.

Minnesota Children's Museum
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$37,000
To support the Creativity and the Young Child initiative. The series of professional development and training events will provide early childhood educators, artists and parents with an understanding of the range of experiences in arts and creative expression for young children.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$125,000
To support the production and national broadcast of classical music programming in 2003-2004. St. Paul Sunday, Pipedreams, Composers Datebook and broadcast concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will reach more than 1.3 million listeners each week.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$625,200
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a Mississippi River concert tour performed by local and international youth. Concerts on a floating barge along the river, from LaCrosse to Saint Paul, will coincide with the 150th-anniversary commemoration of the Grand Excursion of 1854.

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (TPT) (aka KTCA-TV)
St. Paul, MN
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$100,000
To support the production of a three-part documentary film The American Home. The series, intended for broadcast on PBS, will explore the history and evolution of the single-family home in the United States in the 20th century.

Minnesota Total Dollars Awarded: $2,566,800
Minnesota Total Grants Awarded : 23

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