Artist Initiative

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,009
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Thomas D. Peacock
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2019
End Date
December 2019
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Cook
Hennepin
Lake
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Red Lake
Redwood
Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Cook
Hennepin
Lake
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Red Lake
Redwood
Project Overview

Artist Initiative

Project Details

Peacock will write The Wolf's Trail, a work of fiction about the Ojibwe relationship with wolves, and do writing for publication workshops in Minnesota's tribal communities using excerpts of the manuscript as examples.

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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Rebecca Brooks: Writer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Scott Carpenter: Fiction writer; teacher at Carleton; Martin Cozza: Fiction writer; Arts Board grantee; Margaret Newman: Writer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Cole Perry: Northern Minnesota novelist; Robin Rozanski: Writer; teaching artist at The Loft; Molly Sutton Kiefer: Poet, essayist, editor and publisher of Tinderbox Editions in Red Wing

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2017 Regular Session, chapter 91, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,009
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$6,009
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

I will develop and use skills for engaging audiences by offering writing for publication workshops. A Likert survey will be administered to assess outcomes learned by participants in the writing for publication workshops. 2: I will develop my artistic practice. An open-ended questionnaire of writing workshop participants will assess the author's writing samples.

Measurable Outcome(s)

I did develop and use skills in engaging audiences by offering two writing for publication workshops. Likert Survey Results of the October writing workshop at the Sami Center in Duluth rated the workshop 4.5 of five (strongly agree). No evaluation of the November gathering in MPLS was done. 2: I did develop my artistic practice by completing a 207 page novel, The Wolf's Trail, and find a publisher (Holy Cow Press, Duluth). I was not able to share my manuscript with any attendees at either workshop so there is no evaluation of this section.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
achieved most of the proposed outcomes
Project Manager
First Name
Thomas
Last Name
Peacock
Organization Name
Thomas D. Peacock
State
MN
Phone
(218) 310-8532
Email
tpeacock@d.umn.edu
Administered By
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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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