Creative Individuals

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,996
Recipient
Josina Manu AKA Josina Manu Maltzman
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
In Progress
Start Date
February 2025
End Date
January 2026
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview

Creative Individuals

Project Details

Maltzman will host readings and writing workshops, and make a chapbook available free online in audio and PDF format. Events will be accessible, a mix of in person and Zoom, and will engage multiple communities.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Carol Bruess: author, speaker, relationship social scientist, and creator; Uri Camarena: business consultant; Michael Charron: arts educator, arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice, former state legislator; Emily Galusha: arts and civic leader, former arts administrator; Anthony Gardner, healthcare consultant; Ken Martin: political strategist, campaign manager; Philip McKenzie: adjunct college faculty; Michele Sterner: higher education administrator; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Woods: executive director, arts organization

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Momoko Niemi: Tanno is a singer, actor, performer, and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, teaching in the music department and the stage and screen arts department. Tanno has served on a community advisory board for Park Square Theater, as a diversity, equity, and inclusion committee member at MacPhail Center for Music, and as a board member for Minneapolis Japanese School.; Mark Peterson: Peterson is currently a reporter and photographer for the Northeaster newspaper and a writer for Documenters.org, a nonprofit that reports on public meetings. He was a project manager for the nonprofit Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, and he made nine trips to Central America to volunteer to build homes. His photographic work was first exhibited in 1973, and his collage work has been accepted into the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition ten times. He has been a Minnesota State Arts Board grant advisor twice.; Barbara Roberts: Roberts has experience from living in Massachusetts prior to Minnesota. Roberts was cochair for the Yarmouth Arts Council; the council determined grant distribution of lottery funds that were given to the town. Roberts is a lifelong amateur artist and supporter of the arts. Roberts has volunteer experience in grant writing for a local school and humane society.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota, 2023 regular session, chapter 40, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3; Minnesota Session Laws, 2024 regular session, chapter 106, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,996
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$9,996
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

4 readings and two workshops in person (accessible) plus one reading and one workshop on zoom = eight engagements over twelve mo, pdf and audio chapbook on website. Evaluated by: Attendance of events Use of online feedback form for readings Use feedback form for workshop participants Count Sales of chapbook track clicks and downloads of chapbook and audio on website.

Project Manager
First Name
Josina
Last Name
Manu
Organization Name
Josina Manu AKA Josina Manu Maltzman
State
MN
Phone
(612) 803-3432
Email
josinamanu@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
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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