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Career Development Grant

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,232
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Michelle M. Matthees
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
February 2015
End Date
February 2016
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
St. Louis
Project Overview
Career Development Grant
Project Details
Book Manuscript Conference and Publication. I will use Arrowhead Regional Arts Council grant funds to attend The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference on March 13-16, 2015 In Greenfield, Massachusetts. While at the conference I will receive feedback on my book-length manuscript Careful House, consider revisions, and collect suggestions for presses that would be likely to publish this particular manuscript. Upon returning home, I will further revise my book-length manuscript and submit it to twenty book contests.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth, Shannon Sweeney: stage manager for Duluth Playhouse and former production manager for the Minnesota Ballet; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, animator; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,232
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,768
Direct expenses
$3,000
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

I will publish my first book-length poetry manuscript with a well-respected, non-vanity press. The four measurable outcomes, which will occur in order, are as follows: 1. Attend Colrain Manuscript Conference. 2. Revise manuscript. 3. Submit manuscript to 20 presses. 4. Have book published by a non-vanity press. Measurement will occur by noting the completion of outcomes in this order: Conference attended by March 16, 2015. Manuscript revision completed within two months of conference completion or by May 31, 2015. Submission of manuscript to twenty presses by December 31, 2015. Book publication (given contest reading times, it is likely that this status of this outcome will not be known by the end of project calendar).

Measurable Outcome(s)

I will publish my first book-length poetry manuscript with a well-respected, non-vanity press. The four measurable outcomes, which will occur in order, are as follows: 1. Attend Colrain Manuscript Conference. 2. Revise manuscript. 3. Submit manuscript to 20 presses. 4. Have book published by a non-vanity press.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Michelle
Last Name
Matthees
Organization Name
Michelle M. Matthees
State
MN
Phone
(218) 341-9307
Email
michellematthees@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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Arrowhead Regional Arts Council

Location

424 West Superior Street, Suite 104
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone
Project Manager: Rebecca Graves
218-722-0952
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Email the Agency
director@aracouncil.com
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