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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support recordings of works by New York Foundation on the Arts (NYFA) Composition Fellows. In collaboration with NYFA, one recording from each of the fellows will be produced for digital distribution and/or compact disc release on the innova record label.

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,504,490
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ballet Works, Inc. (aka James Sewell Ballet)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of performances in Fergus Falls and Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The James Sewell Ballet will also offer free matinee performances for students, workshops, and related residency activities.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support touring activities in rural communities of northern Minnesota, including choral concerts, educational workshops, and school performances.

Cedar Cultural Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Roots Festival. Cross-cultural performances will be complemented by workshops, meet-and-greet artist sessions, educational components for teens, and complimentary tickets.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Neighborhood Bridges. Designed and implemented in partnership with St. Paul Public School District 625, elementary school students will learn theater and storytelling skills to enhance their literacy development.

FORECAST Public Artworks (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the first phase of the development of an online digital image archive of public art. Undertaken in partnership with the University of Minnesota, the project will focus on 30 years of regional commissions documented by Forecast, and 20 years of historical images published in Forecast's quarterly magazine, Public Art Review.

Great River Shakespeare Festival
Winona, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Co-Founder Alec Wild will direct the production.

IFP-Minneapolis (aka IFP-MN)
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support educational activities, access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region, and a screening series. Approximately 600 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production of Northern Lights/Southern Cross: Tales from the Other Side of the World. The work will be presented at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and performed by an international ensemble of artists with disabilities, Aboriginal and Native American artists, a gospel choir, actors, dancers, and musicians.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip-Hop Summit. Activities will include an exhibition, performances, workshops, youth events, panel discussions, and community events.

Library Foundation of Hennepin County
Minnetonka, MN
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Pen Pals Author Lecture Series, which presents nationally recognized authors in lectures and book signings.

Loft, Inc. (aka The Loft Literary Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Minnesota Program for Writers, which offers classes, mentorship opportunities, and workshops for writers of all levels. Additional events include readings, book clubs, and other opportunities for community members to engage in a dialogue with a range of prose, poetry, young adult, and children's writers.

Lutheran Music Program (aka Lutheran Summer Music)
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival. Established for high school orchestra, choir, band, and keyboard students, the month-long summer residential program will offer training and performance opportunities for students, faculty, and guest artists on the campus of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$90,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Music Accessibility Initiative. The program provides  quality music education to children with physical, developmental, and learning disabilities in community partner schools.

Minnesota Bluegrass & Old Time Music Association
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Bluegrass Review. The project will support a weekly one-hour radio show that presents bluegrass music in multiple contexts.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program targeted to underserved teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops in the art of bookmaking, culminating in an exhibition of student artwork.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual BRIDGES outreach program. The chorus will present four generations of singers in performances at the MacPhail Center for Music and four residential care facilities across the metropolitan area.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free outdoor community concerts. In partnership with the Plymouth Civic League, the performances will take place in Minneapolis, Plymouth, Excelsior, and Winona, Minnesota, and in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. (aka American Public Media)
St. Paul, MN
$220,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and national radio broadcast of classical music programming. In 2009-2010, programs such as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, St. Paul Sunday (to be renamed), and Pipedreams will reach as many as four million listeners each week.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$822,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a regional  premier production of Black Pearl Sings! by Frank Higgins, with accompanying educational activities.  

Perpich Center for Arts Education
Golden Valley, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Ojibwa and Dakota Anchoring Curriculum Workshop. Summer professional development workshops for kindergarten to 12th-grade teachers will be built around Native American arts and art-making, featuring NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Locke.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support 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
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   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.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution 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.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the completion and presentation of Sva (Vital Force), in collaboration with Wadaiko Ensemble Tokaro, taiko drummers from Nagano, Japan. The project will be implemented in partnership with A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

SteppingStone Theatre Co. (aka SteppingStone Theatre for Youth Development)
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of the original work The Empty Pot and other Chinese Folktales. Playwright Dane Stauffer will draw from Chinese fables to create the text.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of William Shakespeare's Othello, including free performances at prisons, homeless shelters, and other low-income centers. Artistic Director Michelle Hensley will co-direct with Sonja Parks, veteran company actress and 2005 McKnight Theater Fellow.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Parallel Play Design Camp. During this multi-day workshop, K-12 teachers and students will work in multigenerational teams to explore the design process and develop a design-based curriculum.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and restaging of sections of Walking with Pearl...Southern Diaries, by choreographer Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar. The work will be presented by the University for Minnesota dance students as part the dance program, Continuously Rich: Legacies of Black Women Artists in American Concert Dance.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $3,232,290

 
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