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FY 2010 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 Public Media Group (on behalf of Classical South Florida-WKCP)
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording and radio broadcast of live regional performances of classical music and a program providing information on local artists and ensembles by Classical South Florida-WKCP. Programming will include concerts by the New World Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Symphony of the Americas; and On the Town, a weekly arts feature program.

Arshile Gorky Foundation
Chaska, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs related to the documentary Arshile Gorky-My Grandfather. Directed by Cosima Spender, the film will explore the life and work of Armenian-born American painter Arshile Gorky (1900-48).

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,676,390
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

ArtStart
St. Paul, MN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Gathering at the River, a visual arts residency. Professional artists will work with classroom teachers to integrate visual arts and science studies to increase students' knowledge about the intersections among art, culture, and the environment using the Mississippi River as a focus.

Ballet Works, Inc. (aka James Sewell Ballet)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of performances and residency activity in Austin and Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support touring activities in rural communities in several Midwest cities. Male vocal ensemble concerts, educational workshops, and school performances are planned.

Cantus, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support in-school residencies focused on American vocal chamber repertoire. Works by composers William Billings, Dominick Argento, Samuel Barber, and Stephen Foster as well as Native American and traditional songs will be included in performances or used in coaching.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (aka CHAT)
Saint Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Art Saves Us. Hmong mentoring artists will provide after-school and summer instruction in break dancing, choral singing, drama, creative writing, drawing, painting, video making, music production, and puppetry.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$9,600
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert of American chamber music and residency activities. The Miro String Quartet will perform a concert of works by American composers including George Crumb's Black Angels and provide educational activities in schools, a university, community centers, and senior facilities.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$42,000
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.

Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music in the Schools. The curriculum-based program will involve classroom visits and concerts in as many as 30 Minneapolis and Saint Paul inner-city public elementary schools.

Futurebuilders in Support of the Trollwood Performing Arts School (aka Trollwood Performing Arts School)
Moorhead, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Mainstage Musical Program of the Trollwood Performing Arts School. The activities will immerse students in contemporary and classic musical theater while studying the basic tenets of script writing, character development, vocal performance, and stage production.

Great River Shakespeare Festival
Winona, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Daly News by Jonathan Gillard Daly, with accompanying education and outreach activities. Producing Director Paul Mason Barnes will direct the biographical musical play.

History Theatre, Inc. (aka Great American History Theatre) (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a community collaboration and partnership with Concordia University in St. Paul to stage Brian Grandison's Adrift on the Mississippi. Minneapolis Star Tribune Artist of the Year James Williams will direct, and Obie and Olivier Award-winning director Marion McClinton will serve as dramaturg.

Hmong Cultural Center Inc.
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Hmong Marriage Song Class program. The project will teach teenagers and young adults the songs associated with traditional Hmong marriage ceremonies.

IFP-Minnesota (aka IFP MN)
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
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 creation of the multidisciplinary performance We Are All Africans. Theater artists Jeanne Calvit and Jean Leopold Ngoulou (Congo) will collaborate with composer Aaron Gabriel and Congolese artists with disabilities.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip-Hop. Activities will include aerosol mural production, a dance showcase, a film series, workshops, youth events, panel discussions, and community events.

Library Foundation of Hennepin County
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support two author lecture series: Pen Pals and Talk of the Stacks. The former features acclaimed national and international authors; the latter features up-and-coming literary figures, established authors with new works, and regionally prominent writers.

Loft, Inc. (aka The Loft Literary Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
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.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Meditations and Revelations, a performance project celebrating the life and legacy of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The project will include performances and educational activities.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Expressions Sessions. The intensive residential pre-college program provides students with opportunities to elect majors in animation, graphic design, painting, photography, and video.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual BRIDGES outreach program. The chorus will be joined by community members in performances at the MacPhail Center for Music.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free outdoor community concerts. In partnership with the Plymouth Civic League, the performances will be take place in Plymouth, Excelsior, and Winona, Minnesota; and in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Minnesota Public Radio, Inc. (aka Minnesota Public Radio|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 2010-11, programs such as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, and Pipedreams will reach as many as two million listeners each week.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$892,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance to Learn. In partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers will participate in professional development in which they will collaborate with teaching artists to design integrative learning experiences through dance.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$17,000
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.

Playwrights' Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of the New Plays on Campus Core Apprenticeships. In partnership with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the project will provide college playwrights with script development opportunities and year-long mentorships.

Public Radio International, Inc. (aka PRI)
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
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 is 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: 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.

Ragamala Dance (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Sthree, inspired by Silappatikaram (The Tale of the Anklet), the national epic story of the Tamil people of southeastern India. The project will be implemented in partnership with the Hindu Samaj Temple of Minnesota.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$11,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Family Albums, a dance project celebrating family histories and cultural legacies. In partnership with West Metro Education Program #6069 (WMEP), professional dancers will present two three-week dance residencies for fourth- and fifth-grade students at two WMEP schools.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production and tour of Life is a Dream by 17th-century Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca, with accompanying outreach activities. Artistic Director Michelle Hensley will direct.

Theater Latte-Da
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development, live production, and national radio broadcast of Through Ellis Island: A Musical Voyage To America. Artistic Director Peter Rothstein will collaborate with composer and storyteller Dan Chouinard.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
$80,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Walking with Jawole, a residency with the Urban Bush Women. In a series of performances ad community-based activities, Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the Urban Bush Women members will conduct numerous events as part of the university's initiative Black Women in Cultural Production.

Upstream Arts, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Performing Arts Residencies in Special Education Classrooms. Artist residencies will be held in special education classrooms of Minneapolis elementary, middle, and high schools.

VocalEssence (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ¡Cantaré!, a community engagement and music commissioning program in partnership with the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota. New works by Mexican composers Guillermo Alvarez, Javier Diaz, and Graciela Agundelo will be premiered on the ¡Cantaré! Community Concert at Orchestra Hall, conducted by Gerardo Rabago, and will be complemented by in-school residency activities.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Creative Connections, a residency to create and present large-scale works on site. All artists will take part in public programs such as lecture-demonstrations, open rehearsals, workshops, readings, panel discussions, and school performances.

Zeitgeist
Saint Paul, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Decade Three, a recording project featuring works by Minnesota composers written for the ensemble. The ensemble will release the two-compact disc set recording on  Innova Recordings as a celebration of its 30th anniversary.

Zeitgeist
Saint Paul, MN
$8,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Henry Cowell: An American Pioneer, a project celebrating the musical legacy of the composer. In addition to performances of his work, the ensemble will present an exhibition of photographs, writings, and scores, as well as interactive activities for all ages at Studio Z.


Number of Grants: 41          Total Amount: $3,776,590

 
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