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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

MINNESOTA

American Composers Forum
Saint Paul, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a commission and middle school residency for the BandQuest® series of educational compositions. Composer Hankus Netsky will develop the new work in residence at the Day Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts, where it will be premiered by the school band and then later recorded by the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
Saint Cloud, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert and residency by the Borromeo String Quartet. The three-day residency will include a program for fourth-grade students using computer graphics to create videos to accompany the music they study with the quartet, a family concert, a lecture/demonstration at a senior center, and a session for high school and college music students.

Children's Theatre Company and School (aka Children's Theatre Company)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio by Director Greg Banks and the development of The Hockey Musical by The Civilians in New York. Banks will re-imagine the classic text as a highly theatrical movement piece with a small cast. The Civilians' new musical will be inspired by founder Steve Cosson's interviews with young hockey players, parents, and coaches in both the Twin Cities metropolitan area and in Duluth.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the print and electronic publication and promotion of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled writers include Lightsey Darst, Sarah Fox, Bob Holman, Kenneth Koch, Norah Labiner, Jack Marshall, and Eleni Sikelianos.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of multidisciplinary artists throughout Minnesota for underserved audiences. Writer Diane Ackerman, poet and hip-hop artist Dessa, and musician Simon Shaheen will participate in performances and workshops for audiences including at-risk youth, residents of a domestic abuse shelter, the elderly and their caregivers, and immigrant communities.

East Side Arts Council
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Beacon Bluff Art Project featuring sculptor Gita Ghei. Working with neighborhood youth, Ghei will create a rain garden sculpture and benches to be placed in a public area of a new business development project in a low-income and diverse part of the city.

FORECAST Public Artworks (aka Forecast Public Art)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation and distribution of the biannual journal Public Art Review and the expansion of the publication's website. Each issue will include trends in public policy, funding, technology, and conference reports, recent awards, and projects that explore the diversity and excellence of public art.

Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support orchestral concerts. Free concerts featuring works by living composers including Randall Davidson, Rhonda Larson, Sara Miller, Paul Schulz, and Ted Unseth as well as works in the standard orchestral repertoire are planned in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Graywolf Press
Minneapolis, MN
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of contemporary works of fiction with settings as widespread as Nigeria, Germany, Norway, Ireland, and Sri Lanka. Scheduled authors include Kevin Barry, Jessica Francis Kane, Ru Freeman, Percival Everett, Fiona Maazel, Robert Boswell, Susan Steinberg, Gaute Heivoll, Eugen Ruge, and Igoni Barrett.

Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support creation and exhibition of new work by artists Willie Cole (b.1955) and Do Ho Suh (b.1962) with an accompanying catalog. The artists will be provided unlimited access to printmaking facilities and materials and will work in collaboration with a master printer.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of a new work by puppetry artists in the Sampo Box Program. The program will establish a yearly opportunity for the creation of new works for puppet and mask performance by professional tenured artists in residence at the theater and compliment existing intensive training opportunities offered by the company for beginning and emerging professional puppetry artists.

Mankato Symphony Orchestra Association Inc.
Mankato, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Deconstructing Don Quixote, featuring violist Sam Bergman and cellist Sebastian Bӓverstam. The two-part performances will include an educational discussion for the audience about the narrative, character development, and musical composition of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote.

Midway Contemporary Art
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a solo exhibition series by emerging and underrepresented national and international artists. As many as four artists will be selected to receive a stipend, production costs, travel costs, and technical support to realize new work for installation in Midway's 1,000 square-foot gallery space.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Deni Y. Bechard, Jon Pineda, David Rhodes, J. Drew Lanham, and Vietnamese poet Ngo Tu Lap, translated by Martha Collins. Books will be released in both print and e-book editions.

Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual Free Concerts for Seniors performance series featuring bagpiper Mike Breidenbach. Concerts serving economically disadvantaged seniors will be held at different community venues throughout Minneapolis including the historic Nicollet Island Pavilion, Elliot Park, and the Cerenity Senior Care-Humboldt.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (aka Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the research phase for the exhibition Eugene Delacroix and Modernity. Co-organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the National Gallery, London, the exhibition will comprise approximately 70 oil paintings. In addition to Delacroix (1798- 1863), the exhibition will include works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Courbet, Degas, and others.

Minneapolis Special School District #1 (on behalf of KBEM-FM)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Bluegrass Review radio show broadcast on KBEM-FM. The project will involve the production and promotion of a weekly program of bluegrass music, which includes information about the genre's history and aesthetics; interviews with artists and significant bluegrass figures; and in-depth commentary about the music.

Minnesota Museum of American Art
St. Paul, MN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the Native American modernist George Morrison (1919-2000). The exhibition will include more than 80 artworks spanning the breadth of Morrison's career, from his early figurative drawings and regionalist paintings of the 1940s to the monumental abstract landscapes and wood sculptures of the 1970s, and his late 20th-century drawings and paintings.

Minnesota Opera
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo and John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play and Oscar-nominated motion picture, the production will be conducted by Christopher Franklin, with stage direction by Kevin Newbury, sets by Robert Brill, and costumes by Paul Carey; the cast will include Matthew Worth as Father Flynn, Adriana Zabala as Sister James, and Denyce Graves as Mrs. Muller.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the production of two new works and the tour of two commissioned works. The two new works include a play by Caridad Svich about the Mirabal sisters fighting despotism in the Dominican Republic, and a devised piece written by Anton Jones and directed by Leah Cooper about veterans with disabilities. The two commissioned works are Minnecanos, an original musical about Mexican Americans from Minnesota by Joe Minjares, and Aditi Kapil's The Deaf Duckling about a deaf child born to a hearing family.

Northern Lights.mn
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the re-creation of Marcel Breuer's St. Paul house (1962) that will be installed at the Union Depot in downtown St. Paul as part of the Northern Spark nuit blanche festival. Minnesota artist Chris Larson will work with Professor of Architecture Charlie Lazor, a group of graduate architecture and BFA students from the University of Minnesota, and the current owner of Marcel Breuer's Frank Kacmarcik home to recreate it to scale following the original architectural plans, using wood frame, cardboard, and paint. Set on a solid floating platform, the house will then be set on fire as a symbolic act of celebration and destruction

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Latino/Asian Fusion Series, a festival of new work commissioned and developed in collaboration with Teatro del Pueblo. The festival will showcase new works by Luis Alfaro, Marlina Gonzalez, and Enrique Adyanthaya that fuse Latino and Asian theatrical traditions.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the activities of the Ruth Easton Lab for new play development. Focusing on developing and promoting the scripts and careers of the center's Core Writers, the lab's activities include developmental workshops with full artistic teams for scripts-in-progress as well as providing resources for producing theaters to move new work toward production.

Ragamala Dance
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work, Song of the Jasmine, choreographed by artistic director Aparna Ramaswamy. Commissioned and co-presented by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Song of the Jasmine will be created in collaboration with alto saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of Rain Taxi Review of Books, free in both print and online versions. The free magazine includes in-depth interviews; profiles of small, independent, and university presses; essays by writers on their favorite authors; and reviews of current fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and works in translation.

Rose Ensemble
Saint Paul, MN
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Trujillo del Peru: The Musical Journeys of Bishop Martinez Compañon project featuring Peruvian music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble, with Artistic Director Jordan Sramek and early music performer and scholar Tom Zajac, will present lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and performances exploring the repertoire of the Trujillo nine-volume manuscript.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Living Composers Project. The program will feature premiere performances of new works by composers John Luther Adams, Shawn Jaeger, and Matthias Pintscher, as well as works by John Adams, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Andrew Norman, and Charles Wuorinen.

St. Catherine University (on behalf of The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium)
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of artists in the Women of Substance program at The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, as well as a residency program for middle school girls in Saint Paul public schools. Artists to be presented include Bebe Miller Company; Emily Johnson/Catalyst; FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance (Germaine Acogny, Carmen de Lavallade, Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar); and Gallim Dance/Andrea Miller.

Theater Mu Incorporated (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Saint Paul, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Asian Male Shooter, a new play by Lauren Yee. The play tells the story of two Hmong American youth in a small town in Minnesota whose father has been killed in a hunting accident as they come to terms with the loss of their father and how to move forward with their lives.

Theatre Latte-Da
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of Bessie's Birthday, a new musical by composer Jeff Tang and lyricist/librettist Katie Baldwin Eng. Directed by Peter Rothstein, the piece tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate the 30th birthday of a daughter with a mental disability.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Witness: Marian Anderson, an annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, featuring soprano Marlissa Hudson. Following two months of outreach presentations by members of the chorush, the 23rd annual week-long festival will include a public concert held in the Ordway in St. Paul, highlighting Marian Anderson's best known repertoire, including art songs, arias, and traditional American songs and spirituals.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $907,500

 
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