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.
This project will explore emotion perception and memory with the creation of short videos that combine elements of narrative experimental media and documentary forms.
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 write direc, and edit a feature length narrative. Funds will be used to shoot on a high-definition camera so that this film could be shown in theaters and at festivals.
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.
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging professional development and training that will advance their artistic and business skills and further their career as an artist.
