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Perpich Center for Arts Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$259,288

The Arts Education in Minnesota Schools Research Project is surveying all public and private schools to collect baseline data on the status of arts education statewide to serve as a resource for making data-driven decisions. A national research and evaluation company, Quadrant Arts Education Research, is conducting the study, comprised of three elements.

Element One: Arts Integration Survey

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Bridge Chamber Music Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120
Artist fees for chamber music concerts.
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Bridge Chamber Music Festival
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,311
Three festival concerts and a young artist recital all with introductory lectures
Rice
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Jeffers Petryglyphs
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,597

Indigenous people have always used stories to preserve and teach culture to each succeeding generation. Through this project, the Minnesota Historical Society will collect, record and interpret stories specific to the Jeffers Petroglyphs site.

The stories from tribal elders will be recorded and transcribed in their native language as well as in English, culminating in written interpretations that will be made available to a wide audience of scholars, students and the general public.

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South Central Minnesota Studio Art Tour
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,380
Annual studio art tour
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Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

To fulfill the expectations of the legislature and the people of Minnesota, the Minnesota Historical Society has engaged Wilder Research and the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality to assist in evaluating the outcomes and value of the Society's ACHF investments.

This work is enabling the Society to effectively evaluate the outcomes of its ACHF-funded programs and partnerships.

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Staples Area Women's Chorus
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600
To apply for nonprofit status
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Central Minnesota Boys Choir
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$530
To incorporate as a 501(c)(3)
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Buffalo Community Orchestra
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,749
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Buffalo Community Theater
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Dassel Cokato Community Education
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Delano Community Education
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,760
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Delano Community Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,761
"Art Comes Alive!" will be the theme of our proposed collaborative, intergenerational arts experience for the children in Delano Community Education’s Tiger Kids Club childcare program and the seniors who attend the Delano Senior Center. The project, whic
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Howard Lake Community Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,208
The Howard Lake-Waverly- Winsted Community Theatre will bring "Annie Get Your Gun" by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields and Irving Berlin to the stage. There will be three (3) performances July 15-17, 2011 at the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School audit
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Cokato Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,760
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Delano-Franklin Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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General Federated Women's Club
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,536
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Monticello Strings
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,872
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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wRight Ringers Community Handbell Ensemble
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800
To advance the artistic development of the applicant organization audience and the artists involved in the project. To explore new ways of providing collaborative and participatory artistic activities and to further arts education including after school
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Annandale Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,600
This will be an after school mixed age and ability Art Club. Under the guidance of two local artists we will research a demolished past Public Art project, namely the "Grain Elevator Mural." We will then design a Public Art mural for the Community Educati
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Buffalo Community Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
Buffalo Community Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at the Performing Arts Center of Buffalo High School. Following the travel theme of earlier 2010-11 concerts ("To Transylvania and Beyond," "Destination: North Pole
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Buffalo Community Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,745
"To Transylvania and Beyond," an Orchestral Concert for all ages, was presented on October 30, 2010 at the Buffalo High School Performing Arts Center. Conductor Foster Beyers provided insight into the music in a pre-concert "Conductor Chat" at 6:30. The M
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Buffalo Community Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
Kiss Me Kate will be produced and performed at the Buffalo High School Performing Arts Center in July 2011 using all-amateur, local talent onstage, behind the scenes, organizationally, and in the orchestra pit.
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Buffalo Community Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,115
Buffalo Community Theater will produce the farce "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn in October 2011 at the Discovery School Auditorium in Buffalo, Minnesota with actors, technicians and artists from Buffalo and the surrounding communities.
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Buffalo Community Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,700
Buffalo Community Theater will produce the classic play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde February 11-19, 2011 at the Discovery School Auditorium in Buffalo, Minnesota with actors, technicians and artists from the Buffalo and the surroundin
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Delano Council for Arts and Culture
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,920
The Delano Area Council for Arts and Culture will hold an event, "An Old-Fashioned Christmas in Historic Downtown Delano," on Saturday, December 4, 2010 with activities planned throughout the day from 9 am to 3 pm. The Old-Fashioned Christmas will provide
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Delano Middle School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,044
CLIMB Theatre will present "The Bully Free Zone" to 5th and 6th graders in support of curriculum that discuss ways to prevent all types of bullying at Delano. Parents and community members will also be invited to the performance. The performance will enha
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City of Hanover
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
The City of Hanover would like to create its VERY FIRST public art project. We are a small rural city on the western fringes of the metropolitan area located within Wright County. The population in 2010 is 2,938 residents. The City recently initiated deve
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Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,338

The Minnesota Historical Society created communication strategies and promotional materials for many of the ACHF-funded programs to increase public awareness and ensure that citizens, educators and students would use and benefit from the new programs.

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Staples Motley Area Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Research feasibility and plan creation of a public art installation for the community of Staples.
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Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,962
To make its primary records available through a new microfilm reader/printer
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Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,735

Partner Organizations: Council for Minnesota Archaeology, Minnesota Archaeological Society.

Radiocarbon dating is an important technique in modern archaeology since it provides objective information about the calendar age of archaeological objects and sites. Through this partnership, the Society's existing archaeological collections were mined for organic samples suitable for radiocarbon dating.

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Rice County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,431

Over the course of several months, the women's textiles and all quilts were evaluated based on condition, inventoried, photographed, rehoused, and stored appropriately.  This included textiles in boxes, on a make-shift clothing rack, in drawers in the gallery, and textiles kept at the Alexander Faribault House.

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Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,342

The Minnesota Historical Society manages 26 historic sites and museums across Minnesota. Recognizing an opportunity to work more collaboratively with organizations where historic sites are located, the Society developed programs to expand history education and programming and elevate the level of professionalism in local history organizations.

This funding enabled site staff across the state to host workshops to train history professionals and work with local historical agencies to assess and update collections.

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Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,085

Recognizing the importance of reaching K- 12 students, as well as their parents and teachers, much of the Minnesota Historical Society's web site is specifically aimed at these groups. While the existing web site is widely used, it has become unwieldy and difficult for the intended audiences to explore and engage with the Society's plethora of content and services.

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Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,957

The portraits of Minnesota's governors grace the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol and provide an important legacy of the state's past and present leaders.

With funding from the ACHF, 20 portraits were cleaned and are now more secure with the addition of high-quality non-glare/UV filtering plexiglass. Using the original framing, each portrait was retrofitted to accommodate the new plexiglass.

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Mahnomen County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To create an exhibit showing the history of two high schools in Mahnomen County
Mahnomen
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Bertha-Hewitt Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,800
Performances by Lake Effect Vocal Jazz Ensemble from the University of Minnesota Duluth
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Freshwater Education District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,550
For Todd Green's week-long multi-instrumental residency
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Freshwater Education District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,300
To provide financial resources to regional schools for the purpose of fostering the development of arts education.
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