Koochiching County Fair Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
To provide a variety of arts and cultural heritage activities at the Koochiching County Fair. Funds will be used to bring The Community of a Plate Exhibit to the fair. A Grand Rapids photographer will be commissioned to photograph local food producers in Koochiching County. Their portraits will be displayed during the fair. Additional improvements will be made to enhance current programming, including adding lights and electrical outlets to the stage, which currently has neither, build shelving and a demonstration platform in the farm museum, and cover the costs of a sound system rental to enhance audio on the improved stage.
These amounts are appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for grants to county agricultural societies to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage as embodied in its county fairs. The grants shall be in addition to the aid distributed to county agricultural societies under Minnesota Statutes, section 38.02. The commissioner shall award grants as follows: (1) $700,000 each year distributed in equal amounts to each of the state's county fairs to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage;
Gather comments during events.
Responses to improvements and the new exhibit were positive.
Mary Lukenbill
John Ungerecht
Karrie Gieser
Betty Olson
Alice Fisher
Sylvia Fleming
Karen Ungerecht
Keith Lindner