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FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

MINNESOTA

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 10th Annual Chinese Film Showcase. Comedy in Chinese Cinema will feature more than 25 films from Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of theatrical works for young audiences. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, choreographer Shen Pei, and co-director Peter Brosius will adapt and produce Monkey King, adapted from a classic Chinese text. Hip-hop artist/playwright Will Power will develop and produce The Minneapolis Piece, based on the stories of young people in Minneapolis. .

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of fiction and creative nonfiction. Scheduled writers include Ellen Cooney, Laurie Foos, Kenneth Koch, U Sam Oeur, and Quincy Troupe

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support two week-long dance residencies. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and Joe Goode Performance Group will present performances and a variety of education and outreach activities.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Kevin McIlvoy, Susan Wheeler, Vijay Seshadri, Tom Sleigh, Sylvia Watanabe, Stephen Burt, and Saskia Hamilton.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of an adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus the King, by Ellen McLaughlin. The production will feature a symposium, post-show discussions, student workshops, and play readings.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation and presentation of a new theater work, Lake Street Excavation: Toy Theater Extravaganza. This production will place miniature puppet theaters at strategic locations along Lake Street to portray the historic origins of this major commercial artery.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of a Euripides' tragedy, Trojan Woman, about the victims of the war between the Greeks and Trojans. The theater will host student matinee performances and facilitate mother-daughter educational workshops.

Lemon, Alex
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of books by emerging and mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Laura Pritchett, Dennis Sampson, David Brendan Hopes, and Naomi Shihab Nye

Minneapolis Public Schools (Special School District #1)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the creation of the Bluegrass Review radio program. The program will consist of recorded performances, commentary and interviews, and workshops for broadcast students at Minneapolis North High School.

Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Padilla at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. This rarely performed bel canto opera also will be the focus of educational activities designed for high school and college singers and will offer an opportunity to link its themes to social studies, literature, and music classes.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Composer Institute for emerging American composers. The project will include reading sessions of new orchestral work, advanced instrumental sessions led by Minnesota Orchestra musicians, and advanced training seminars.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of new plays, including Pan American, a bilingual play about an adoptee returning to her native Colombia from Minnesota. The Deaf Duckling is a new touring show about deaf culture. Queen of the Remote Control is a dramatic comedy that looks at the schism between Hindu and Muslim Indians, and the Indian American community.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Slippery When Wet, a play by Suzan Murakoshi that uses poetry, music, and dance to explore the hypocrisy of a colorblind American culture. Educational activities include pre-play symposia and post-show discussions.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the 23rd annual PlayLabs Festival. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays by bringing together theater professionals and playwrights for workshops and play readings.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine features in-depth interviews, profiles of small, independent, and university presses, essays by writers, and reviews of current fiction, nonfiction, drama, and works in translation.

Rose Ensemble
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the transcription and re-creation of a newly discovered 12th-century liturgical drama Visitatio Sepulchri. The Rose Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Jordan Sramek, will perform the medieval work at The Southern Theater in Minneapolis.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Music of Our Time, commissions and performances of contemporary American works. The orchestra will premiere works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jake Heggie, and Stephen Prutsman.

Schubert Club, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the second Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, a five-day event focusing on the art song through recitals, master classes, and lectures. The festival will feature concerts in the new recital hall in the Hamm Building in downtown St. Paul.

Shapiro & Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the tour and residency activities of ANYTOWN to Alaska and Montana. Choreographed by Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith, the work features the music of Bruce Springsteen, Patty Scialfa, and Soozie Tyrell.

Theater Mu Incorporated
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the development and production of a new music theater work adapted from a play in the theater's repertoire. The Walleye Kid, inspired by Korean and Japanese folktales, is based on the experience of thousands of Korean cross-racial adoptions in Minnesota.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation, development, and production of Waterloo, directed by Robert Rosen. The story features imagined conversations between Napoleon and historical icons including Amelia Earhardt, Idi Amin, and Harry Houdini.

Vocal Essence (Plymouth Music Series, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Witness program, an annual celebration of musical contributions by African American composers. The program will include educational events, a young people's concert, a residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, a commissioned work by an emerging composer, and regional and national broadcasts on public radio.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support New Home for New Work: Connecting Contemporary Performance with Community. Large-scale, commissioned residency projects will support artists in the on-site creation and presentation of new work.

Walker Art Center, Inc. (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, the touring exhibition Chuck Close: Self Portraits 1968-2005, with accompanying catalogue. Organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this will be the first exhibition to examine this body of work by Close, considered to be one of the most influential American painters of our time.

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works for chamber ensemble by Anthony Gatto, Edie Hill, and Martin Bresnick. Zeitgeist will perform the world premieres in Minneapolis.


MINNESOTA total grants: 27
MINNESOTA total dollars: $727,750


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