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.
Kulture Klub Collaborative will develop and empower a Youth Advisory Council to build several new initiatives, broadening and deepening artistic engagement for young people experiencing homelessness.
In summer/fall 2010, Kulture Klub Collaborative will bring Brooklyn-based multi-media artist Oliver Herring and Minnesota film/video artist Brennan Vance together with Twin Cities' youth experiencing homelessness through an intensive workshop of digital video, autobiographical and screenwriting, and public art intervention.
Bounxou Chanthraphpone, experienced Lao weaver, brings hands-on classes to seniors and youth, teaching the technical aspects of weaving, the artistry of design, and the cultural context of Lao weaves and designs. Exhibits/demonstrations will share this learning with hundreds of Minnesotans.
Leonardo' Basement will direct a planning process with community organizations in an economically disadvantaged community to develop an interactive sculpture park located in a Saint Paul park.
The Loft will extend its reach to writers–and those in the making— who lack access to its Twin Cities-based creative writing education services by creating online learning opportunities and a vital online literary learning community.
Lyra proposes to produce 5 baroque chamber concerts in a simultaneous but dual-concert format, one for adults and one for children, to remove the barriers that keep families from attending concerts.
To expand MacPhail's pilot Creative Aging Program from one to five assisted living and retirement communities, and to increase hands-on music participation from 120 to 700 seniors.
MacPhail Center for Music requests $75,000 to develop and expand its Inclusive Partnership Initiative to four community partnerships (from 54 to 58) in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota reaching 850 additional students and recruiting five new teaching artists rooted in arts-based community-building.
MacPhail Center for Music will expand its Creative Aging Program to seven assisted living communities and enroll 700 seniors in participatory music activities based on an accessible, sequential learning model.
Read, Explore, Create provides students the opportunity to read a Milkweed Editions book, explore the themes of the book through an artist residency, visit with the author, and create a work of art integrating these experiences.
Working in partnership with nearby community organizations, Minneapolis College of Art and Design will engage children, youth, and teens from low-income families in its studio art and design programs.
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will conduct Minnesota library tours to six different regions of greater Minnesota, performing six library concerts in each region for a total of 36 concerts.
Open Book will plan literary and book arts experiences with and for underserved neighbors in Cedar-Riverside and other nearby communities. Community writing residencies will culminate in free participatory Family Days featuring community and established writers, book artists, food, and festivity.
In partnership with three community-based organizations, MCBA will launch The Teen Voices Project, which offers customized workshops to introduce teens to creative expression through the book arts.
Minnesota Film Arts proposes, as part of a long-term strategy, to reach out to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities, by presenting ethnically-themed film festival(s) every year. We plan to launch this programming in 2010 with an Asian Film Festival.
