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.
This project expands arts opportunities for participation and enjoyment of Bella Voce Young Women's Choir by underserved populations based on financial, gender, and geographical barriers.
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.
The community of special needs learners at the South Education Center (Richfield) will participate in extended, quality arts learning, increasing their skills in arts participation and producing lasting artwork for the school gardens and entry.
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.
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
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.
The Moving Stories project will introduce the power of dance to caregivers at the Hennepin County Medical Center through a series of workshops, performances, and free tickets to SPDT's Home Season.
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will present public performances and community-inclusive residency activities in collaboration with seven Minnesota presenter communities throughout the state during the next two seasons.
We are seeking an Arts Access grant to tour the three shows of our 2010-2011 to audiences in Alexandria, St. Cloud, and Leech Lake, in hopes of building new relationships with groups that serve low-income people in these communities.
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.
TU Dance will tour to two greater Minnesota communities (Bigfork and Fergus Falls), presenting public performances and collaborating with each partner to conduct master classes, reach underserved populations, and engage the largest and broadest possible audiences.
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.
Servant Hearts and The Phoenix, the gay straight alliance of Bemidji State University will present a community outreach concert by the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus at Bemidji State University.
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.
The University of Minnesota-Morris Performing Arts Series includes five events presenting high quality and diverse music, theater, and dance performances and associated public educational activities by regional, national, and international artists.
Upstream Arts is requesting support of its arts residency program in twenty Minneapolis Public Schools’ Special Education classrooms in the 2011-2012 school year. Students of all abilities will participate in music, dance, visual arts, poetry, and theater.
To increase arts access, Urban Arts will create bilingual core arts instruction classes, held weekly in three-month sessions, to provide more in-depth knowledge and foster passions for specific art forms.
Veterans in the Arts' Advanced Level Classes are part of a progressive program to bring veterans into the arts through some of the Twin Cities leading centers: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Book Arts Center, and Northern Clay Center.
The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will tour Minnesota along Highway 23 at Luverne, Marshall, Montevideo, Saint Cloud, and Duluth, in November of 2011. Multiple-day residencies in each community will engage students and adults through performance and educational offerings.
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.
Zeitgeist is requesting support for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc, text by Kevin Kling, and direction by Ben Krywosz, to take place at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center.
Zeitgeist will present for, For the Birds, a staged chamber work with music by Victor Zupanc and text by Kevin Kling, which will tour to four communities in northwest Minnesota.
Zenon Dance Company proposes touring activities to Duluth, Grand Marais, Mankato, and Cloquet to conduct evening length performances and residency work in each community.
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.
Offering "Unsung Among Us" project - Music learning experience for North Minneapolis neighborhood at-risk youth: music training/twice-a-week, offering piano/guitar/drum classes at open music lab/youth creating songs, and re-mix of the Asian music classic to be broadcasted at RadioASIA.
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.
The Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center to award arts and cultural heritage grants to children’s museums, including through a competitive grant process. A small portion of each appropriation was reserved by the Humanities Center for direct expenses related to administering the grant. Should any portion of this reserve be unused, the difference will be awarded to the respective museums.
The Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center to award arts and cultural heritage grants to civics organizations. A small portion of each appropriation was reserved by the Humanities Center for direct expenses related to administering the grant. Should any portion of this reserve be unused, the difference will be awarded to the respective organizations.
The Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities Center to award arts and cultural heritage grants to the American Indian, immigrant, Hmong, and Somali communities through the competitive grant process. A small portion of the appropriation was reserved by the Humanities Center for direct expenses related to administering the grant.