The language and cultural needs of the American Indian community in the Twin Cities urban area are high. Additionally, the urban area has Dakota and Ojibwe tribal members, as well as, other tribal members.
Minnesota, home to the largest Somali population in the United States, lacks resources for students to access knowledge and representations of Somalia. The Somali Museum of Minnesota will offer students immersive field trips illuminating the history and arts of traditional Somali society by subsidizing admission fees, integrating elders as immersive guides on tours, and developing take-home curriculum materials.
These funds are used for financial monitoring and oversight of the Minnesota Zoo’s legacy funds, including regular review of legacy fund expenditures, financial reporting, budget management, and assisting program staff in work planning for legacy projects. This amount also includes human resource and IT support for legacy funds, as appropriate.
To support her development as a writer by improving character development skills providing a writing residency and participating in a writing conference.
To adapt the music-theater piece--Joan of Arc--into a song cycle for soprano and piano in preparation for a solo recital to be presented in the fall of 2010.
For a photographic exploration of the relationship between the Mississippi River and the Twin Cities metropolitan area from the Coon Rapids Dam to the confluence of the Saint Croix River.
To finish a 30-minute film based on research completed over the course of seven years and to make her more competitive in applying for feature film funding.
To take advantage of the popularity he has gained with the Spark Festival and for the release of an album of new work for string quartet and electronics.
To complete the research and writing of a series of poems about the Irish monks and saints and the alphabet for the manuscript--To The Man Who Steals My Electricity.
To update her digital printing equipment to produce prints for a 2010 gallery show and to open up future exhibition opportunities and possibilities for artistic exploration and development.
To document gravel road bike races and the rural landscapes where they take place. The finished film will be submitted to the Bicycle Film Festival and other film festivals across the nation and within the state of Minnesota.
To complete his first long-form documentary American Heart--an intimate look at refugees from Africa and Southeast Asia as they navigate the American healthcare system.
To visually represent what it is like when everyday activities lead to internal moments of clarity and how these moments of clarity transform our perception.
To develop richer sensor-based works such as his proposed Rowing Through the Subconscious that enable participants to have greater control over experiencing his digital drawings and animations using physical computing methods.
To create a set of three to eight arrangements of Edvarg Grieg's Lyric Pieces for flute and piano. To prepare a manuscript of these pieces for publishing and record a CD of the new works.
This project will explore emotion perception and memory with the creation of short videos that combine elements of narrative experimental media and documentary forms.
