Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.
100 Rural Women will increase the number of Indigenous women, women of color, and underrepresented women in civic engagement through a mentorship program in collaboration with a tribal college by offering a 6-month community internship during the summer and fall of 2024, recruiting 4 to 5 Indigenous women interested in pursuing civic leadership positions.
Brownbody will 1) expand fundraising through grant seeking and increasing revenue streams; 2) streamline operational practices; 3) build a strong foundation for deeper, more frequent, and consistent communication and engagement with MN communities.
Our Legacy project will consist of three local bands performing during our fair, all with ties to central Minnesota . Patrick Murphy along with Blonde and the Bohunk will perform a Friday evening concert and Runestone Rebellion will be the band providing musical entertainment on Saturday evening.
This project involves the collaboration between Pan Asian Arts Alliance, Elluminance Era, Chinese American Chamber of Commerce-MN, Asian Media Access, Unity Dance Group, and other Pan Asian Arts groups. It is a first-ever collaboration between Asian American performing and visual arts organizations. The project, "Asia Extravaganza," is a one-night festivity event to showcase Asian American youthful culture through dance, music and storytelling.
To hire a qualified consultant to develop architectural drawings for Lake Harriet Methodist Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
This project will create enhanced and expanded capacity for Cultural Heritage expertise within the Cansayapi Cultural Department. This project will help to enhance the collection and protection of cultural artifacts and help to hire an archaeology firm to identify key areas for survey and investigation within the ancestral territories of the Mdewakanton Dakota (MN). The project includes hosting a series of tribal community events targeted for retired elders (knowledge keepers), college students (qualified skilled personnel) and other interested candidates.
To hire qualified professionals to repair and restore windows in the Universal Laboratories Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
This project, entitled Sing Again, aims to preserve Somali lullabies, originally passed generation to generation through oral tradition, by transcribing them in children's lullaby book and creating website for resource-sharing and archival so that future generations of children can use them.
This project will expand the Truth Telling Series that collected, preserved, and shared suppressed Dakota and Anishinaabe histories through community oral narratives. The project will document untold and silenced narratives from Black Minnesotans in urban and rural communities to develop new and easily accessible curriculum for grades Pre-K-6, in partnership with numerous BIPOC scholars, elders, and community partners. The project includes a collaborative story collection. The stories will be collected, documented, and written.
1: Homeward Bound Theater Company based out of Chanhassen, MN will be presenting Alfy's "World of Robotic Puppets" for our fairgoers to enjoy all four days of our fair. Their interaction with young and old is very entertaining., 2: The Lac qui Parle County Museum is located next to the fair grounds with access to it from our fairgrounds. They will be open all 4 days of our fair. Our museum has many ag related patents from our county residents along with antique machinery displays from around the county.
We will use this grant to focus on the rich history of agriculture in Minnesota through presentations and displays by photographers Doug Ohman and AJ Kern. We're promoting art in our area and state through the chainsaw art of Curt Ingvoldstad and the hands-on demonstrations of Lisa Douglas. The antique tractor display at our fairgrounds will be a bit more educational with a sign displaying the various types of tractors, along with facts about some that are on display.
We are excited to have the same pottery lady come back this coming year. She will be teaching a class where people can make their pottery, then she will kiln dry the pieces and bring it to the fair so people can learn how this process is done. We will have a local lazer engraver come to show how jewelry and leatherwork is done with a machine. The balloon artist is coming back along with a face painter and henna tattoo artists. We also intend to have a local sled dog musher visit with his dogs to teach fairgoers how important sled dogs were in the early days.
This year we'd like to use our Legacy funds to promote the history of Minnesota agriculture through the presentations of Doug Ohman. We're also excited to welcome back chainsaw artist Kurt Ingvaldson to showcase his unique talents. We'll have a spinning demonstration from a local artisan along with music from local jazz and blue grass bands. There are plans to have a local artist repaint our livestock barn signs and we're also looking at creating signs for our antique tractor display to better inform the public about the historical types of tractors.
By creating an active and joyful Dakota-speaking community learning environment, we anticipate that the proposed Dakota Iapi Teunhindapi project will result in: A unique language learning model for Dakota youth in rural southwestern Minnesota, Increased trust, confidence, and ability to speak the Dakota language with adults, elders and other youth in our rural region, Sustainable community expectations and skills to continue speaking together into the future, and Language lessons in the form of flash cards the students can work with at home, exposing others in their families to the vocabula
By creating an active and joyful Dakota-speaking community learning environment, we anticipate that the proposed Dakota Iapi Teunhindapi project will result in: A unique language learning model for Dakota youth in rural southwestern Minnesota, Increased trust, confidence, and ability to speak the Dakota language with adults, elders and other youth in our rural region, Sustainable community expectations and skills to continue speaking together into the future, and Language lessons in the form of flash cards the students can work with at home, exposing others in their families to the vocabula
1.) Train approximately 42 teachers in directions, numbers, greetings, thank yous, object and place names in either Ojibwe or Dakota 2.) Host three Language Celebrations for all teacher participants, their families and students, with Indigenous foods and cultural activities 3.) Provide teachers with a stipend and gift upon completion of the year-long curriculum
Voices of Black Leadership is a vodcast, video podcast series which highlights Black leaders across these strategic focus areas of the African American Leadership Forum: public safety, education, economic infrastructure, health, and housing. This comprises our work known as United By Black Powered By All. This series is intended to inform the broader community of the racial equity work in Minnesota and who is leading these efforts along with how the community can get involved.
1. Kern Photography: R. J. Kern is an American artist whose work investigates ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place. His portraits focus on intimate, interdependent relationships of people, animals, and landscape as a means of exploring how ancestry shapes identity and how myth intertwines with personal history. His camera has led him from an inquiry into his lineage in the farming communities of Scandinavia and Ireland to the examination of similar communities near his home in Minnesota.
The county appears to have a general interest in learning about different types of art as well as music. A local artist will provide glass-blowing demonstrations. Demonstrations will be provided during the fair on glass blowing, a form of art that interests a lot of people. The demonstrations will be provided by the House of Mulciber Mobile Engagement Unit which focuses on education of the art of glass blowing. The Clay County area has a rich heritage in country music along with other music types.
