To build a mobile stage and purchase sound and lighting equipment, in order to increase the fair's ability to host arts and cultural heritage programming.
The Children's Museum of Rochester, Inc. will be implementing a program called Passport To Play aiming to increase the number of children and families of all ages, ethnicities, abilities and incomes to participate in hands-on arts and cultural programming and educational exhibits at the museum. Passport To Play would reach over 1,500 children and families a year from underserved communities in Southeastern Minnesota. The Children's Museum of Rochester, Inc.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
In season 2010-2011, the St. Croix Concert Series will present four chamber music concerts accompanied by outreach activities in two elementary schools, a junior high school, the Stillwater Public Library, and Croixdale Senior Citizen residence.
Funding for youth visual arts programming consisting of the annual Art on the Lawn community event and a series of 3 to 5 week visual art classes. Programming will take place at ArtReach St. Croix in Stillwater between August 2011 and February 2012.
Funding to grow the Stillwater area literary arts community through monthly author presentations, quarterly writers’ workshops, promotion of local writers’ work and provision of space for writers to work and network. The project will begin in late January
Funding for four concerts in their 2010-2011 season, featuring partnerships with Woodbury Community Theatre, eighth grade string musicians, and New Life Academy. Performances will take place at east metro locations between December 2010 and May 2011.
Funding for the Cimarron Youth Arts program of free multidisciplinary art experiences for 5 to 18-year-old youth living in the Cimarron mobile home community in Lake Elmo. The program will run for a year beginning in May 2011.
Funding for the Newport Mosaic Mural Project consisting of mosiac workshops for both youth and adults living in the Newport area and culminating with an installation of a community mosaic mural overlooking the Mississippi River in August 2011.
