Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Savage will complete the first 75 pages of her lyric novel that is concerned with the ways loss imbeds itself in the body and will lead a workshop at Shakopee Correctional Facility on this theme.
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.
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
Executive director Sue Gens (651) 539-2650
ACHF Arts Access
I will develop skills in lyric novel writing, autotheory, and hybrid forms by completing the first 75-pages of a novel. Outcomes will be evaluated by Paul Yoon, author of THE MOUNTAIN (Simon and Schuster), who has agreed to read the first 75-pages of my novel and provide editorial feedback. My agent, PJ Mark, will also evaluate the novel pages upon completion. 2: I will host a writing workshop at Shakopee Correctional Facility, a women-only state prison, as well as a public reading of new work in Minneapolis. I will lead a one-day writing workshop about corporeal writing at Shakopee Correctional Facility, a women-only state prison (confirmed), as well as curate a public reading featuring a variety of writers (myself included), whose works are hybrid.
My outcomes were achieved, but shifted. My lyric novel became a lyric essay collection, which I sold to Coffee House Press during the grant term. It has been a life goal for me to write a first book and secure publication for it. That goal was reached during this grant period. 2: I successfully lead a one-day writing workshop about corporeal writing at Shakopee Correctional Facility. Because I set out to teach a class wherein I, as a Minnesota artist, would develop and use skills for engaging with audiences and communities through teaching, as that transpired during the grant term, I consider this outcome successfully met.
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