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FY 2007 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements/Summer Schools in the Arts

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

MINNESOTA

Art Start
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support River EcoJourneys, a visual arts residency program. Professional artists will work with classroom teachers at two elementary schools in St. Paul to integrate visual arts and science studies to increase students' knowledge about the intersections between art and nature.

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,182,500
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a CD recording of American choral music titled A Sound Like This. The disc will feature world-premiere recordings of works by Henry Cowell, Edie Hill, Steven Sametz, Eric Ewazen, and Jocelyn Hagen as well as recordings of work by Eric Whitacre and Paul Nelson.

Cedar Cultural Center, Inc. (aka The Cedar)
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the ninth annual Nordic Roots Festival. Music and dance concerts and interactive vocal and instrumental workshops will feature a number of artists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States.

COMPAS, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$33,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the expansion of ArtsWorks, an arts-centered youth employment program for Saint Paul youth. Youth apprentices will learn arts-based vocational skills and contribute to the community through the production of murals, public performances, and marketable crafts.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. A series of two- to four-week artist residencies and a 10-week, after-school program targeted to students in the fifth and sixth grade (in primarily Latino neighborhoods) will focus on the basic tenets of drama, performance, and script writing.

Guthrie Theater Foundation (aka Guthrie Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the musical play 1776, with book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, with accompanying educational activities. Associate artistic director John Miller-Stephany will direct the Guthrie's first musical production in its new three-stage theater complex.

In Progress
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support The Critical Eye, a digital arts project. Targeted to underserved youth in six culturally diverse communities in the Twin Cities metro area, including Hmong, Native American, Latino, and African American communities, the program will teach youth to create art using new technologies such as digital photography, digital video cameras, and computer software applications.

Independent Feature Project-North (aka IFP MSP)
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support educational activities as well as access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region. More than 500 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Between the Worlds. Collaborators will mount and tour a multidisciplinary performance work that will challenge society's views about disability.

Jungle Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Shining City by Conor McPherson.

Library Foundation of Hennepin County
Minnetonka, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2007-08 Pen Pals Author Lecture Series. Promotion efforts will include print ads, public radio spots, and a mailing to more than 8,000 community members.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers. Events will include readings and on-air interviews with nationally recognized authors, and workshops and mentors for emerging writers.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Pathways to Performance. The program will provide students, ages 6 to 14, weekly music lessons and opportunities to perform.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program for disadvantaged teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school workshops in the art of bookmaking and guide youth participants through the process of creating a book to display in a culminating exhibition.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual BRIDGES outreach program. The chorus will premiere composer Robert Kyr's cantata Ah Nagasaki, written to mark the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the Japanese city.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (aka Minnesota Orchestra)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a CD recording of To Be Certain of the Dawn by Stephen Paulus for release on BIS Records. The large-scale oratorio received its premiere in 2005 and commemorates the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the UPbeat music education program. Partnering with Minneapolis Public Schools, the orchestra will introduce every third-grade student in the Minneapolis Public School system to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral work Scheherazade through teacher workshops, classroom visits by orchestra musicians, and in-depth curriculum materials.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. (aka American Public Media)
Saint Paul, MN
$200,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and national broadcast of classical music programming. In 2007-08, programs such as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, Saint Paul Sunday, Pipedreams, and classical music specials will reach millions of listeners each week.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. (aka American Public Media)
Saint Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of arts features and related Internet content for the weekly radio magazine program Weekend America. Produced and distributed by American Public Media, the two-hour program includes segments on news, issues of the week, and American arts and culture.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$649,400
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support continuation of the Pillsbury House Theatre's Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on themes relevant to students' lives.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, distribution, and marketing 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 PRI and WNYC-FM.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  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.

Southern Theater Foundation (aka Southern Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Around, an outreach program that brings culturally specific dance forms into underserved Twin City communities. The companies will present Bharatanatyam, flamenco, modern, and hip-hop dance and offer education and outreach activities.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support WASH: Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing. The project includes a symposium at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Caring for the Caregiver movement/expression workshops, and Satellite Events, which will include artistic collaborations by participants presented throughout the community.

Teatro del Pueblo, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the seventh annual Political Theatre Festival. The project will present plays that explore the politics of Latin America and the political issues affecting Latinos in the United States.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production and tour of Little Shop of Horrors to underserved audiences including prisons and homeless shelters. Artistic director Michelle Hensley will direct and produce the musical with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of William Shakespeare's King Richard III. Free performances will be targeted to low-income audiences in prisons, shelters, and housing projects.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Choral Music
To support regional touring of the American Masterpieces Choral Music Festivals, including a composer-in-residence, recording, and a national radio broadcast. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Philip Brunelle, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour to northern Iowa, eastern North Dakota, and western Minnesota where they will perform and give workshops and master classes for college and high school students and community and church choirs.


Number of Grants: 30          Total Amount: $2,766,900

 
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