Wilder Foundation will provide arts learning for elders and adults with disabilities living at Ravoux, a Saint Paul Public Housing hi-rise, and to elders with dementia in its memory loss program by collaborating with Kairos Dance Theatre and the Women's Drum Center.
Funding to produce and stage the regional premiere of Lisa Meyers’ The Birth of Venus. Performances will take place at the Cedar Riverside People’s Center in October 2011.
Funding to create and produce Tushaanal/fires of dry grass, an original, evening-length dance theater piece exploring women’s stories of violence, trauma, and survival in global communities of color. Performances will take place at the Southern Theater in
Funding for 10 to 15 teens, who have a parent with cancer, to design and construct a piece of public art under the direction of glass artist Malcolm Potek. The project will take place at the artist’s northeast Minneapolis studio beginning in October 2010.