Martin County Fair Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
To add and enhance arts programming in Martin County. Funds will be used to hire art instructors to lead hands-on pottery, painting, and weaving workshops. Supplies will be provided for child and adult participants. Funds will also be used to enhance stage lighting.
These amounts are appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for grants to county agricultural societies to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage as embodied in its county fairs. The grants shall be in addition to the aid distributed to county agricultural societies under Minnesota Statutes, section 38.02. The commissioner shall award grants as follows: (1) $700,000 each year distributed in equal amounts to each of the state's county fairs to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage;
Ron Morris
Robbin Celander
Jim Kain
Delmar Whitaker
Ed Murphy
Steve Pomerenke
Jared Pomerenke
Lisa Wedel
Tom Zehnder
Dan Thate
Mike Tonne
Bob Stromberg
Calvin Saxton
Randy Deling