To take advantage of the popularity he has gained with the Spark Festival and for the release of an album of new work for string quartet and electronics.
To create a CD/promo video of Monkey Mind Pirates--a children's rock music and puppet show--to advance the artist's career as a composer and performer of children's music.
To complete the research and writing of a series of poems about the Irish monks and saints and the alphabet for the manuscript--To The Man Who Steals My Electricity.
To update her digital printing equipment to produce prints for a 2010 gallery show and to open up future exhibition opportunities and possibilities for artistic exploration and development.
To document gravel road bike races and the rural landscapes where they take place. The finished film will be submitted to the Bicycle Film Festival and other film festivals across the nation and within the state of Minnesota.
To complete his first long-form documentary American Heart--an intimate look at refugees from Africa and Southeast Asia as they navigate the American healthcare system.
To visually represent what it is like when everyday activities lead to internal moments of clarity and how these moments of clarity transform our perception.
To develop richer sensor-based works such as his proposed Rowing Through the Subconscious that enable participants to have greater control over experiencing his digital drawings and animations using physical computing methods.
To create a set of three to eight arrangements of Edvarg Grieg's Lyric Pieces for flute and piano. To prepare a manuscript of these pieces for publishing and record a CD of the new works.
To prepare perform and record his original native flute and Celtic folk harp compositions into a CD to promote and generate interest in the music as well as live performances.
Having recently completed Ojibwe translations and interpretations of some of his writings the artist intends to self-publish a new book of poems with an accompanying audio CD.
To revise a nonfiction memoir manuscript turning what is currently a collection of related personal essays into a more cohesive single work and then resubmit the revised manuscript to Graywolf Press.
Construction of a device that will transfer hand-processed, experimental 16mm film footage into a high-quality digital format with a DSLR camera and vice-versa.
Through the pairing of portraits and audio recordings of at-risk youth she will create an exhibition that develops her skills as an artist and challenges cultural stereotypes.
To join fishing and group-hunting expeditions in northern Minnesota to experience first hand the subject of her current work and produce a group of paintings from these trips to be shown in 2012.
To advance his career as an independent artist by releasing new recordings, implementing a complete promotional strategy, and leading his ensembles in performance.
To complete nine paintings using alphabets from different languages for one scheduled exhibit and one exhibit in planning stage, then create a website to give the work a Web presence.
This project will incorporate local Minnesota materials, and will educate Minnesota citizens about the rich visual and oral traditions of Native people.
To broaden her knowledge of 3D materials and film-based work by building and burying a sculpture in the ground, leaving it for six months and documenting it's excavation.
To expand his creative process and develop a new type of performance involving students, audiences, professional dancers, and musicians all coming together in a community event.
