This project will bring the multi-media show, The Mushroom Picker, about an unlikely World War II hero from a small Midwestern town to the following Minnesota towns: Warroad, Roseau, Lake Bronson, Stephen, Perham, Detroit Lakes, and Grand Rapids.
Curtis and Loretta to present, Minnesota Heritage in Song, a concert of songs and commentary from early Minnesota history. With period costumes and instruments, they immerse the audience so they might truly experience the lives of our ancestors in those times.
Prudence Johnson and A Girl Named Vincent is a concert presentation of Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry set to music by four Minnesota composers and performed by singer Prudence Johnson and a five-piece acoustic ensemble, with a scripted narrative and projected images, providing historical context and a visual component that captures the tone of the music and poetry.
Arts for Academic Achievement seeks Arts Board support for, Apprenticeship: What Do (Good) Authors Do? The project will bring highly qualified teaching artists into 34 Minneapolis Public Schools’ second grade classrooms to teach, inspire, and apprentice young writers.
In a book arts and poetry project titled Roots, students will explore their cultural heritage and ancestry by writing prose and poetry, collecting photographs and other visuals components to be assembled into an artist's book and expanded on with a master poetry/bookmaking class the following year.
Using distance learning technology, Artspace and Springboard will help artists in Brainerd, Fergus Falls, and Duluth to engage with and provide arts experiences for their host communities.
Through Peking Opera/Chinese Acrobat, the Project connects under-served Asian American community with theatrical experience, and connects the younger generation with the century old art form.
James Sewell Ballet requests funds to create and tour Dance N' America, an accessible, engaging, and thought provoking performance designed to cultivate new dance opportunities in communities that we visit in greater Minnesota.
The Ten Minute Play Festival will bring together community participants and professional artists to produce original short work providing access to the creative process, and developing new audiences.
Huge Improv Theater will have T. J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi from Chicago, Illinois, tour their nationally recognized improv show to HUGE Theater in Minneapolis.
In partnership with over 50 businesses and organizations, The Cedar will engage East African immigrants with a comprehensive arts program titled Cedar Avenue to Art that uses music events as the focal point and also serves the general public
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Children's Theatre Company will launch Community Superheroes, a project to engage Latino audiences through partnerships with organizations serving Latinos; free tickets and transportation for children and families to two CTC productions; and pre-performance workshops and post-play reflections.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Textile Center will increase access to its exhibition and education programs through a new outreach service for schools and community-based organization serving low-income youth. Partners receive a transportation stipend and youth participate in a gallery program and hands-on art activity.
Students and community engage in a sustained art-making project exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment affirming our diverse community.
Zenon seeks to create and implement an audience development plan targeting the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community, a group that traditionally lacks access to dance as an art form.
Flying Foot Forum will tour “The Percussion Project” to ten Minnesota communities. It will expand its touring in Minnesota, conduct workshops, and bring quality arts to youth and adults.
Minneapolis based FOOLS PRODUCTIONS proposes a tour of its newest show, THE VAUDEVILLIAN / Spirit of the American Dream to historic theaters and modern performing arts centers across greater Minnesota.
The Minnesota Sinfonia performs a family program in Saint Cloud’s Paramount Theatre and a children’s concert at Camp Courage, both being offered with free admission.
Working with local professional teaching artists, Overtures will feature north Minneapolis children as the starring attraction for 2 Minnesota Sinfonia performances to occur in North Minneapolis.
Grand Symphonic Winds will collaborate with the Mesabi Community Band to bring its contemporary, international repertoire and performance practices to the Iron Range through a performance and arts learning activities.
The Schools On Stage residency program uses Shakespearean texts to inspire creativity in teens, culminating in student created works that are performed on the Guthrie stage.
The Guthrie Theater will create $5 Previews, promoted through nonprofits, college job placement offices, and (re)employment agencies, to provide access for underemployed and emerging professionals aged 21-35.
The Second Tuesdays Project is a free, monthly event featuring artmaking and artist talks that will broaden public access to art experiences and engage new audiences.
Hillcrest Community School's project plans collaborative residencies for all students, grades pre-K to 5, to receive video instruction with artist Mike Hazard and jazz study with musicians Ruth MacKenzie and Joan Griffith, that will produce a completed video presentation showcasing their achievements in both artistic disciplines.
Illusion Theater requests a two-year grant to tour, My Antonia and Autistic License, to 10-12 Minnesota communities each year. Through this, Illusion will expand its touring in Minnesota, provide playwriting workshops, and bring quality arts experiences to youth and adults.
Illusion Theater will use a variety of innovative and enjoyable strategies to create free access for adults and families from Northside Minneapolis to attend Illusion productions.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre will tour, Are You Thirsty, a puppetry show about water stewardship, in partnership with nature centers and local government-sponsored community festivals.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre will conduct a year-long residency for Phillips neighborhood youth who have limited access to arts enrichment programs in partnership with Waite House, Little Earth, and Hope Community.
Sumunar will provide residencies (two years) in Indonesian gamelan music and dance, taught by artist/teachers, collaborating with Main Street Performing Art School, Hopkins, Prairie Seed Academy, Brooklyn Park, Oak Hill Elementary, St. Cloud, and Normandale French Immersion School, Edina.
Sumunar and Marion W. Savage Elementary School will collaborate in a two-week residency in Indonesian gamelan music making, with intensive daily instruction for special education classes, introductory sessions for general classrooms, and a concluding performance for parents and the public.
Dis/Cover the Arts expands our capacity to grow audiences of people with disabilities by removing barriers, better fulfilling our mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Emotional Expression and Connection Through Clowning Project will provide a two-year series of six performance art residencies for 124 students who have significant emotional-behavioral disabilities.
The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project will present a touring version of its recent Art of Conflict visual art exhibition and, The Unreturned, a film, to six communities in greater Minnesota.
To expand Juxtaposition Arts' Visual Arts Literacy Training and Free Wall Aerosol Art series, which are comprehensive introductory visual art and environmental design programs where 75 core youth will work with experienced artist teachers to create, interpret, and exhibit drawings, painting, and murals in North Minneapolis.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
The Dancing Heart Lifelong Learning Through the Arts program will bring Kairos' successful, evidence-based dance and storytelling learning program to older adults who are interested in participating in a high-quality arts program that will help maintain and improve their health.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will work with teaching artist Marcus Young to develop artwork with a community of young people experiencing homelessness, reflecting on the relationship between inner lives and public space.
