Debut twelve paintings depicting Hmong folktale heroines at the Runway Art Show. Host “Ask a Hmong Artist," an open community discussion about the pursuit of artistic careers.
To complete a large-scale, site-specific, temporary public art installation in a rural Minnesota setting using an existing form or architectural space and fiber as the basis for his work.
The project will continue the work he has been doing for the past six years, photographing quirks and eccentricities of vernacular architecture in various neighborhoods of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
To challenge the status quo of the music industry and change the platform of R and B and hip-hop with the help of other Minnesota artists, and to finish and promote his album.
To complete an evening length dance/video piece, workshop it at a domestic violence shelter, perform it at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis, and tour it to Silver Bay and Duluth.
To define an ethnic voice in his songwriting (process) and record a music CD (product) that examines sociopolitical issues within the Hmong American community using both Hmong and English languages.
To explore the world of sculpture and motion through clay animation by creating a dancer. He envisions that this will become a small animated dance company.
To create and compose a new musical theater piece based on the Biblical story of David and Jonathan set in Northern Minnesota using a variety of theatrical techniques.
To produce an artist book of photographs of medicinal plants with writing that contextualizes her interest in botany, photography, and issues of medicine/health/biodiversity.
Artist will gain enhanced technical skills and knowledge of production through workshops to produce 4-8 ready-to-sell wearable art pieces to be showcased in the Spring 2012 Art Crawl.
Dream is an electric water performance filled with intense imagery of unexpected elements being introduced one after another in a manner as disconnected and randomly nonsensical as a dream.
To develop a new body of artwork that can be exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. To find venues for that artwork, and construct a Website that accurately promotes his artistic progress.
To gather and share traditional Minnesota fiddle tunes with audiences via modern venues and learn Minnesota old-time music and develop resources to preserve these traditions for future generations.
To compose and produce a Harbor Symphony for ships’ horns in Duluth-Superior and a Car-Horn Fanfare at several community events. To install wind-powered sound-sculptures in metro area parks.
To develop a feature-length dramatic screenplay and to work with a director of photography production manager and a sound designer to help realize a feature narrative film called Easy.
To complete and promote a recording of jazz interpretations of contemporary musical theater classical art songs original compositions and standard American song literature.
To continue shooting and complete a feature-length documentary about Al Milgrom--a photographer filmmaker and founder/director of the University Film Society and the Twin Cities International Film Festival.
To work on a nonfiction memoir and literary reportage about the intersection of man and nature, with particular attention paid to spirituality metaphysics and children.
To edit and revise a completed draft of Seven Acts of Mercy--a historical novel about the baroque painter Caravaggio--before sending it to a literary agent who has requested first look at the manuscript.
To revise her poetry manuscript, work with a mentor or editor, identify twenty small presses and/or first book contests, and to submit the manuscript for publication.
To complete a poetry manuscript--Odessa--for travel to the Minnesota prairie and to attend the 2010 Meningioma Awareneness Day conference sponsored by the Brain Science Foundation.
To increase her production value and create jobs by hiring crew for pre-production production and post production and distribution of a collection of short videos profiling the lives of five people who are living with the land in various ways.
To finish writing and rewriting Wary Dog Circling--a memoir that uses vivid imagery a solid writing voice and an intricate structure that mirrors memory--and then send it to agents and publishers.
To create perform and record an original composition integrating acoustic and electronic music for choreographer Uri Sand's first full evening work premiering in May 2010.
For the rehearsal and performance of a new experimental music/drama-- Desert Dreams: Naomi and Ruth--at the Sabes Jewish Community Center in Minneapolis.
For a collection of stories from a group of Liberian women that will commemorate their courage as elderly women--some non-English speaking--thriving in Minnesota.
To study and prepare two new song cycles by Timothy C. Takach and Matthew Culloton and perform them around the state enhancing her study of music outside the liturgical realm and to promote the new works to other performers and educators.
