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2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Luke B. Hillestad
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2015
End Date
November 2015
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Artist Initiative
Project Details
Hillestad will develop a new series of work with the theme of “old and young” by working with local children and seniors. The paintings will be exhibited as a solo show at Flanders Gallery in South Minneapolis, in November 2015.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Wendy Dayton: Arts and community leader and philanthropist.; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Marion Angelica: Ceramic artist, former director of Metropolitan Regional Arts Council; Brian Frink: Visual artist, professor of painting and drawing, chair, art department, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Maren Kloppmann: Ceramic sculptor; Qian Liu: Ceramics and sculpture artist; Stephen Shaskan: Author, illustrator and Loft Literary Center teaching artist; Don Sherman: Artist, educator, photographer, mentors program coordinator, Southwest Minnesota State University College
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$10,000
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The creation of 812 paintings with the theme of old and young. An exhibition of these works at Douglas Flanders Gallery in Minneapolis in November, 2015. 2: To work closely with a wider range of models, collaborating with children and seniors to create the paintings. The dignity and qualities of each model would be seen in the paintings of them.

Measurable Outcome(s)

The exhibition AEON: Portraits of Youth and Age at Flanders Gallery in Minneapolis consisted of eighteen paintings and an audience size of 500 people. The method of evaluation was to quantify the successfully completed paintings and number of audience members involved. 2: Eighteen children and senior citizens were engaged in helping me create the successful exhibition: AEON: Portraits of Youth and Age. I quantified the number of children and senior citizens who were involved in modeling and qualified the dignity of their portrayals.

Description of Funds
Project Manager
First Name
Luke
Last Name
Hillestad
Organization Name
Luke B. Hillestad
State
MN
Phone
(612) 965-9994
Email
lukehillestad@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by

Minnesota State Arts Board

Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
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Email the Agency
msab@arts.state.mn.us
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