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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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.
Wright
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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.
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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
Wright
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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.
Todd
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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
Clay
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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.

Rice
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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
Todd
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Freshwater Education District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,550
For Todd Green's week-long multi-instrumental residency
Todd
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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.
Todd
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Freshwater Education District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,410
Visual arts workshops by Heidi Steadman for elementary students in seven schools.
Todd
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Freshwater Education District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,600
Poetry workshops with David Bengtson in six school districts.
Todd
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Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Music enrichment for K-12.
Todd
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Staples Elementary School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
For an after school art adventures program to provide an opportunity for 15 students in grades 3-5 to explore various mediums in art.
Todd
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Northfield Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,642

To provide full ADA-compliant access to the Scriver Block, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with an elevator and grade access entrance.

Rice
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Minnesota State University-Mankato
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,287
2009-2010 Good Thunder Reading Series.
Blue Earth
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Minnesota State University-Moorhead
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,431
2009-2010 The World Series.
Clay
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University of Minnesota-Morris Perf Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,575
2009-2010 University of Minnesota, Morris Performing Arts Series.
Stevens
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Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,688

The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County used the funds to purchase 1223 linear feet of V-GRIP™ baked enamel on steel shelving to store their growing collection of archival materials. This project will have lasting implications for the professional care of the historical record of Clay County for many years to come.

Clay
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Bertha-Hewitt Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$921
University of Minnesota Duluth vocal jazz instructor to work with middle and secondary school students
Todd
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Buffalo Community Theater
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,970
Purchase 8 wireless microphone units
Wright
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Ridgeway Community School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$431
Production of The Wizard of Oz.
Houston
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Gail A. Heil
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$395
Series of three rural dances.
Houston
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Gail A. Heil
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$903
Three Lanesboro barn dances
Houston
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Bluff Country Artists Gallery
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,770
Logo design and Web site revamping
Houston
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Houston County Agricultural Society AKA Houston County Fair
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,770
Family-oriented arts programming for 2010 Houston County Fair
Houston