To prepare condition report and treatment proposal for murals in the Grant County Courthouse, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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.
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.
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.
Funds will assist the city of Park Rapids to purchase a portable stage to create a safe performance space for arts activities and to help make these activities more accessible to all.
To make theater accessible to the non-English speaking Hmong community, we will mount the play "Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman"in Hmong and nurture the talents of nontraditional Hmong actors.
The Loft will deepen its relationships with and investigate and remove barriers to participation in Loft programs for writers and literary readers and those in the makings who are recent immigrants, people living with disabilities, and teens.
Heartland Democracy will partner with Commonbond’s Skyline Tower’s Teen Program to engage a cohort of teenagers who are primarily Somali- and Ethiopian-American in the Empowering U program—discovering their own motivation to engage in civic affairs, along with the tools to do so.
Midwest Viking Festival (MVF) presents Viking-era arts, cultural traditions, and folkways with demonstrations, hands-on activities, and performances, including weaving, wood-turning, metalwork, carving, fiber dyeing, pottery making, felting, rune writing, songs, and more.
To hire a qualified historian to complete an evaluation to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for the Worthington National Guard Armory.
In FY17, MNHS will launch a new records search to make it easier for library patrons to access birth, death, veterans grave and state census records. The new search tool launched in beta in December 2016, and user feedback is being collected. Site enhancements will be made in the second half of the fiscal year.
Regional Dance Development Initiative to provide professional development for Minnesota dance makers, to build connections and relationships that will continue to nourish dance artists, and develop the overall capacity and infrastructure of the MN dance community.
