McKnight Fellowship
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,175
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Ellen R. Redshaw
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
July 2013
End Date
June 2014
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Cook
St. Louis
Project Overview
McKnight Fellowship
Project Details
Create an illustration based booklet/graphic novel based on the Thar Desert (India/Pakistan) folktale Moomal Rano. It will be approximately 30 pages. Funds will be used to purchase supplies and supplement living costs in order to have time to create.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Josh Aerie: orchestra conductor, cellist, college music instructor; Nancy Daley: hand made paper maker, instructor North House Folk School, Grand Marais; Ken Bloom: Director Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Jeff Adams: published playwright, Founder and Director of Ice Box Radio Theater; Marcie McIntire: traditional beadwork Ojibwe artist, gallery owner and educator; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, traditional beadwork Ojibwe artist, gallery owner and educator, instructor North House Folk School, Grand Marais; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, animator; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: Masters of Art in English and American Literature, actor, theater reviewer, musician; Victoria Olson: stage and radio theater actor, instrumentalist, accompanist, speech judge; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Whitley Mike: Communications and Media Arts Major, College of Saint Scholastica; Ashley Kolka: Project Coordinator, MacRostie Art Center, visual artist, writer; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Brian Carlson: Executive Director of Grand Rapids Showboat; Mary McReynolds: Director of Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance, Virginia; Rebecca Peterson: Executive Director of Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra; John Gregor: photographer, community education advocate; Brian Lukasavitz: artist based attorney, musician, theater artist; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Project Details: 2013 Fiscal Year
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language
ACHF Arts Access
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,175
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,325
Direct expenses
$2,500
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
Goal is to complete the drawings for the booklet. It will be measurable in terms of being finished and in a ready to publish form, either with 2nd Cloud, a Minneapolis based independent comic publisher or self-published.View the completed unpublished book and get to a read to publish form, complete and understandable to the reader.
Measurable Outcome(s)
Improvement in technical ability, creative vision and higher quality materials.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Project Manager
First Name
Ellen
Last Name
Redshaw
Organization Name
Ellen R. Redshaw
State
MN
Phone
(218) 370-8450
Email
ellenredshaw@gmail.com
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