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.
To provide unprecedented access to in-depth, high-quality arts instruction (an average of 10 contact hours per student) on MCFTA campus, at its new classroom at Ridgedale Center, and in the community for an estimated 500 at-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth identified by seven grassroots community partners
With a 30-year track record of touring in Minnesota, Mixed Blood Theatre Company will tour seven productions to 16 statewide communities over the next two years to promote pluralism, to serve vulnerable Minnesotans, and to provoke discussion and education about cultural competence.
Mixed Blood Theatre will expand access for Somali immigrant populations in the 55454/Cedar Riverside neighborhood through activities including a partnership with Bedlam Theatre, fostering increased engagement through Somali community-led events and activities, Mixed Blood-produced programming, and a unique performance program.
In its project, Out the Door, Round the Block: The Art and Science of the Neighborhood, learners of all ages will work with five professional artists to create original works of art to be shared with the community.
Nordic Arts Alliance presents the Viking world/roots tribal contemporary music band Krauka from Denmark/Iceland in a rural and urban Northern Minnesota tour September 2010 with project components including master classes, school and library workshops, and public performances.
Northern Clay Center proposes a series of partnerships with community organizations that serve individuals 55 years of age and older, which would provide ongoing clay instruction, lifelong learning in the arts, and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration to place-bound and somewhat mobile populations.
To develop and implement the second phase of the Artist Teaching Artist professional development program in FY11 and then support for a new retinue of teaching artists to begin the Artist Teaching Artist training in FY12.
Park Square's Theatre Ambassadors Program is a nine-month program to strengthen the skills and leadership of twenty teens through artist-led workshops, performances, and service projects that serve an additional 500 community members.
The Plum Creek/Pioneerland Storytelling Tour will provide children, parents, and other adults the opportunity to learn about and experience the educational art of live spoken-word storytelling through performances and workshops in underserved rural communities in southwestern and western Minnesota.
Pillsbury House Theatre and the Pillsbury House Neighborhood Center will work together to integrate arts learning into five of the non-arts community programs, reaching people ages 20 months to 50 years.
Riverside Concerts, Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra, and Honors Choir of Southeast Minnesota will bus 5,000 fourth and fifth graders from across southeastern Minnesota to educational youth concerts at the Mayo Civic Center on 4/21/2011; teachers will receive an advance study guide to prepare students for the concerts.
Due to Essar Steel (a company from India that purchased Minnesota Steel) opening in 2011, the Reif Center will support Ragamala Dance in touring residencies for area schools/organizations. The focus is introducing Indian dance, art, and culture into our communities.
Woodland Hills arts learners will use a guided creative process to explore causes, impacts, and solutions surrounding teen violence, while acquiring skills necessary to create and perform a theatrical production and foster dialogue about this issue.
The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities housed in one building will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
Students of three distinct Saint Paul school communities, housed in one building, will come together to create and perform music, theater, visual art, and writing in Jazz at Rondo. Standards-based arts learning will foster development of individual and collective voice.
Semilla: The Phillips Mosaic Project will train youth and adult artistic leaders in mosaic arts, while beautifying the neighborhood and building community through workshops with community partners, the result of which will be mosaic planters throughout the community.
The Phillips art project, Semilla, will expand to teach mosaic and mural arts to bilingual, multigenerational communities by training youth and adult artists as arts facilitators and by creating mosaic planters and murals that help unify the community.
The Singers-Minnesota Choral Artists will present concerts in Staples and Duluth. The Singers also will offer classes and outreach activities to local high school and community choirs.
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's Family Matters Project will conduct ten-day dance residencies for core groups of fourth to sixth graders in three West Metro Education Program member districts, including planning, lecture/demonstrations, daily classroom workshops, community workshops, concluding performances, and evaluation.
Family Matters Project is a series of 2-week residencies for schools in the 11 member West Metro Education Program districts which will include the history of dance, movement skills, dance creation and performance by students, planning and evaluation time, and workshops for the community.
Textile Center will conduct 12-week fiber art residencies at Sobriety High Charter School sites in Coon Rapids and Edina. This standards-based residency will complement and extend academic programming for students who are recovering from alcohol and drug dependency.
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
The Textile Center will create a touring exhibition showcasing artistic excellence and innovation in fiber art by accomplished Minnesota fiber artists. The fiber art exhibition will initially travel to Bemidji, Lanesboro, Mankato, and New York Mills and will include hands-on education activities.
Stage Elements is an eleven-day summer intensive for high school students taught at a college level that introduces participants to the wide variety of theatrical styles and techniques, classical and contemporary, that we teach at the University of Minnesota.
Wadena-Deer Creek students will work with Arts Board teaching artists in theater, visual arts, and music to create works of art using the create, perform, and respond process and to learn creative problem solving strategies enhancing learning across the curriculum.
Zenon Dance Company proposes a 3-week tour to southwestern Minnesota during April and May 2011. This includes Marshall, Pipestone, and Luverne, Minnesota. Zenon will perform evening length performances, 5-day intensive residencies, and master classes.
Zenon will expand its work with the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community through a one-week residency at Humboldt Junior High; a free matinee during Zenon's Twin Cities' season; and a free performance of "The Nutcracker According to Mother Goose."
Zorongo Flamenco will join with collaborating partners to bring the art of flamenco dance and music to youth and adults in five Minnesota communities through performances and residency programming.
20% Theatre Company seeks MSAB support to conduct two, day-long writing and performance workshops for local transgender and differently-gendered artists in June 2011.
AchieveMpls, in partnership with MacPhail Center for Music, Children's Theatre Company, and Givens Foundation for African American Literature, will expand arts learning opportunities for 750 pre K-7 Minneapolis Public School students through programs that enhance the school curriculum and positively impact student learning.
Wilder Foundation will provide arts learning for elders and adults with disabilities living at Ravoux, a Saint Paul Public Housing hi-rise, and to elders with dementia in its memory loss program by collaborating with Kairos Dance Theatre and the Women's Drum Center.
