In a book arts and poetry project titled Roots, students will explore their cultural heritage and ancestry by writing prose and poetry, collecting photographs and other visuals components to be assembled into an artist's book and expanded on with a master poetry/bookmaking class the following year.
The ScrapMobile, a portable art car (van) and art program of ArtStart's ArtScraps Materials Reuse Center, seeks funding to provide free summer arts programming instructed by ArtStart roster artists in parks, housing developments, and recreation centers for underserved youth/families in collaboration with Saint Paul Park and Recreation's Roving Rec program and the St Paul Public Library Bookmobile.
James Sewell Ballet requests funds to create and tour Dance N' America, an accessible, engaging, and thought provoking performance designed to cultivate new dance opportunities in communities that we visit in greater Minnesota.
In partnership with over 50 businesses and organizations, The Cedar will engage East African immigrants with a comprehensive arts program titled Cedar Avenue to Art that uses music events as the focal point and also serves the general public
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Children's Theatre Company will launch Community Superheroes, a project to engage Latino audiences through partnerships with organizations serving Latinos; free tickets and transportation for children and families to two CTC productions; and pre-performance workshops and post-play reflections.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Textile Center will increase access to its exhibition and education programs through a new outreach service for schools and community-based organization serving low-income youth. Partners receive a transportation stipend and youth participate in a gallery program and hands-on art activity.
Elementary students of the Dawson-Boyd School District will experience multi-curricular learning by creating with five roster artists in the areas of music, storytelling, theater, poetry, mosaics, and interdisciplinary art through school residencies and community activities.
The Duluth Art Institute will host internationally recognized artist Wing Young Huie to present two community workshops in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth to engage audiences with issues of identity and diversity through the use of portrait photography.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside of Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation at Otter Creek Event Center, Carlton and Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids.
A Center for the Arts continues their tour across Minnesota with one program from last year―Ann Reed's Heroes, and two new tour programs―Songs from the Tall Grass, which we produced in 2007 and Chamber Music.
The Circle of Life is a two-year project involving all facets of the community in lifelong learning through music, theater, movement, and puppetry, working with Ghaian dancer/drummer Francis Kofi, and artists Esther Ouray and Julie Kastigar.
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.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
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.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater artists, assisted by teaching artist/writer Florence Dacey, will lead Granite Falls Manor residents in creating memory masks based on their life stories.
Moving Matters is a dance and moving arts project that will bring quality dance experience to adults with mental illness and mental health workers. The project will be used as a healing art that will enhance recovery and stimulate healthy partnerships between workers and clients, as well as be a new medium to raise community awareness about mental illness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We will present four concerts by world-class chamber musicians: Osmo Vanska's celebrated quintet, exciting mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke, the vital Copper Street Brass Quintet, and dazzling young pianist Grace Fong. Cooke, the Brass Quintet, and Fong will present master classes.
Great Tap for an Even Greater Minnesota will travel to greater Minnesota providing free tap dance education and low cost performance to communities underserved regarding arts performance/educational opportunities, fitting into its mission to "expand the boundaries of American tap dance."
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.
Linwood Monroe Arts Plus proposes to engage nine artists to present high quality residencies for all students and professional development for arts specialists. Detailed planning, arts integration, and response protocols are key elements of the plan.
This project increases access to high quality arts residencies for all Linwood/Monroe K-8 students, supports staff, and artists in developing new skills in planning arts integration residencies, and embeds collaborative response protocols into more areas of our work with students.
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.
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.
Matinee Musicale will bring the Parker Quartet to Duluth to perform in October 2011; the quartet also will give lecture/demonstrations for two high schools and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Symphony. The violinist Arnaud Sussmann will perform in concert in November.
Saint Paul Public Schools will increase access to arts learning for underserved African American and other students by establishing two artist residencies in Maxfield Magnet Elementary School that include culturally relevant arts learning experiences for 240 students, community/family events, and teacher/artist professional development.
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.
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.
Pursuant to its new long-term strategy, MFA will reach out for a second year to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities with a proposed Latin American Film Festival.
Minnesota Museum of American Art requests funding for a touring exhibition of highlights from its outstanding collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the art of Minnesota and the region.
