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Project Details by Fiscal Year
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Scott R. Bean AKA Scott Bean
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2015
End Date
April 2016
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
St. Louis
Project Overview
Artist Initiative
Project Details
Bean will create 45 oil paintings and 20 watercolors that celebrate the natural beauty of Minnesota's Whiteface reservoir on the border of the Superior National Forest in northeast Minnesota. The work will be shown in Aurora, Hibbing, or Eveleth towards the end of the grant period.
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
David Andree: Artist utilizing painting, drawing, sculpture and sound, painting and drawing instructor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Jan Elftmann: Visual artist, educator for the Science Museum of Minnesota, coordinator of art at 801 Gallery, director, ArtCar ArtBike Parade.; Shannon Estlund: Visual artist, adjunct instructor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; William Gorcica: Professor of art, Saint Cloud State University; Ursula Hargens: Co-collaborator and program head for Minnesota New Institute for Ceramic Education; Peter Pestalozzi: Furniture designer/craftsman, Ely, Board member, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council; Brian Stewart: Plein air painter and instructor; Christine Willcox: Visual artist, professor, art and art history department, Macalester 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
$7,500
Other Funds Leveraged
$2,000
Direct expenses
$9,500
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

I hope to paint twenty small oil painting 8`/10'', twenty watercolors 11`/15` or 15`/11` and five 24`/32` oil paintings 1. Have I painted the 45 works I had hoped to? 2. Do the works truly create a sense of place in the viewer? 2: I hope to find a venue for exhibiting the works in a public space near the Whiteface reservoir. Aurora, Hibbing or Virginia are communities near the reservoir. Was an exhibit space found and an exhibition publicized and held?

Measurable Outcome(s)

Scott painted twenty watercolors and exhibited eighteen. Scott painted nineteen oils on panel 10 x 12 and five oils on panel 8/10. Scott painted five larger studio paintings. He exhibited forty-eight. Scott was able to produce the number of paintings he hoped for and he was able to have an exhibition. 2: Scott held an exhibition at the First Stage Gallery in Aurora Minnesota entitled Whiteface Series 2015 He exhibited forty-eight paintings March 6-26, 2016. The First Stage Gallery in Aurora Minnesota reported good attendance.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Scott
Last Name
Bean
Organization Name
Scott R. Bean AKA Scott Bean
State
MN
Phone
(612) 636-3908
Email
mebean@earthlink.net
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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msab@arts.state.mn.us
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