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 create two new video works exploring our endless quest for self-improvement--a double projection and an eight-screen installation for an upcoming solo show at the Rochester Art Center.
Boat Punks is a film that documents the epic journey of a group of young do-it-yourself travelers who have created a life of freedom and adventure living on homemade houseboats while navigating the rivers of mid-America.
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 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 create a CD/promo video of Monkey Mind Pirates--a children's rock music and puppet show--to advance the artist's career as a composer and performer of children's music.
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.
To prepare perform and record his original native flute and Celtic folk harp compositions into a CD to promote and generate interest in the music as well as live performances.
Having recently completed Ojibwe translations and interpretations of some of his writings the artist intends to self-publish a new book of poems with an accompanying audio CD.
To write direc, and edit a feature length narrative. Funds will be used to shoot on a high-definition camera so that this film could be shown in theaters and at festivals.
To revise a nonfiction memoir manuscript turning what is currently a collection of related personal essays into a more cohesive single work and then resubmit the revised manuscript to Graywolf Press.
