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William C. McLaughlin AKA Billy McLaughlin
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,800
McLaughlin will share original music, fingerstyle guitar technique, arrangements of traditional Christmas music and story with communities in greater Minnesota through performance and educational workshops.
Ramsey
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Lauren J. Pelon
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,990
Pelon will collaborate with writer Gary Holthaus to present, The Story of Music-Stories from Home, a program of music and spoken word, at seventeen arts centers, museums, and libraries in Minnesota.
Goodhue
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Loretta J. Simonet
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,491
Curtis and Loretta to present, Minnesota Heritage in Song, a concert of songs and commentary from early Minnesota history. With period costumes and instruments, they immerse the audience so they might truly experience the lives of our ancestors in those times.
Hennepin
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Butch Thompson
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$42,565

Butch Thompson will present a series of traditional jazz performances throughout the state of Minnesota. He will also conduct one K-12 educational outreach program in each community.

Ramsey
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Linda A. Bruning
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,540
To "create, perform and respond" an original theater piece including: acting, writing, music, visual arts, dance on the concept "true heroism;" the piece will incorporate core curriculum areas of arts, social studies, English, computer science, carpentry, and online education
Hennepin
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Prudence J. Johnson
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$72,000
Prudence Johnson and A Girl Named Vincent is a concert presentation of Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry set to music by four Minnesota composers and performed by singer Prudence Johnson and a five-piece acoustic ensemble, with a scripted narrative and projected images, providing historical context and a visual component that captures the tone of the music and poetry.
Hennepin
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Debra Elias Morse AKA Deborah Elias
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,065
Deborah Elias and twelve partners will present performances of Flamenco, Pure and Strong, flamenco guitar, song, and dance with community engagement and arts learning in twelve communities in 2011-12.
Ramsey
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MacPhail Center for Music
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
To expand MacPhail's pilot Creative Aging Program from one to five assisted living and retirement communities, and to increase hands-on music participation from 120 to 700 seniors.
Hennepin
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MacPhail Center for Music
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
MacPhail Center for Music requests $75,000 to develop and expand its Inclusive Partnership Initiative to four community partnerships (from 54 to 58) in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota reaching 850 additional students and recruiting five new teaching artists rooted in arts-based community-building.
Hennepin
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MacPhail Center for Music
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
MacPhail Center for Music will expand its Creative Aging Program to seven assisted living communities and enroll 700 seniors in participatory music activities based on an accessible, sequential learning model.
Hennepin
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Maxfield Magnet Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,170
Saint Paul Public Schools will increase access to arts learning for underserved African American and other students by establishing two artist residencies in Maxfield Magnet Elementary School that include culturally relevant arts learning experiences for 240 students, community/family events, and teacher/artist professional development.
Ramsey
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Milkweed Editions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,620
Read, Explore, Create provides students the opportunity to read a Milkweed Editions book, explore the themes of the book through an artist residency, visit with the author, and create a work of art integrating these experiences.
Hennepin
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Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$51,500
Working in partnership with nearby community organizations, Minneapolis College of Art and Design will engage children, youth, and teens from low-income families in its studio art and design programs.
Hennepin
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Minneapolis Guitar Quartet Association AKA Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,842
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will conduct Minnesota library tours to six different regions of greater Minnesota, performing six library concerts in each region for a total of 36 concerts.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,230
Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musicals promote positive images of children with mental health disorders. We will bring live musical theatre to three residential treatment programs.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Book and Literary Arts Building AKA Open Book
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,580
Open Book will plan literary and book arts experiences with and for underserved neighbors in Cedar-Riverside and other nearby communities. Community writing residencies will culminate in free participatory Family Days featuring community and established writers, book artists, food, and festivity.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,500
In partnership with three community-based organizations, MCBA will launch The Teen Voices Project, which offers customized workshops to introduce teens to creative expression through the book arts.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Film Arts AKA The Film Society of Minneapolis-Saint Paul
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,500
Minnesota Film Arts proposes, as part of a long-term strategy, to reach out to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities, by presenting ethnically-themed film festival(s) every year. We plan to launch this programming in 2010 with an Asian Film Festival.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Film Arts AKA The Film Society of Minneapolis-Saint Paul
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Pursuant to its new long-term strategy, MFA will reach out for a second year to regionally represented and underserved ethnic communities with a proposed Latin American Film Festival.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Fringe Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,150
The Fringe will increase arts participation first by bringing diverse and under-represented audiences, then by recruiting artists from those audiences to produce shows of their own, continuing the diversification cycle.
Hennepin
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Minnesota Guitar Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
The Minnesota Guitar Society seeks funding to support a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by 10 internationally renowned guitarists from abroad and the U. S., to be presented in Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and South St. Paul.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Guitar Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Minnesota Guitar Society will present a series of concerts, workshops, master classes, and in-school visits by guitarists from abroad and across the Unites States in Duluth, Fergus Falls, and the Twin Cities and their suburbs.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Museum of American Art
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,425
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.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Museum of American Art
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$43,863
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.
Ramsey
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Minnesota Orchestral Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
The Minnesota Orchestra is committed to making meaningful concert and education connections with audiences statewide; it is working with Watertown, Dawson, and Brainerd for 2011 concert engagements.
Hennepin
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Minnetonka Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
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
Hennepin
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Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,648
To revolutionize access, Mixed Blood proposes FREE THEATRE - no-cost access to productions, eliminating the economic barrier to more effectively engage underrepresented populations.
Hennepin
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Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,392
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.
Hennepin
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Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$191,608
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.
Hennepin
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Nautilus Music-Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,004
Nautilus will tour its production of, I AM ANNE FRANK, to rural Minnesota, sponsored in year one by the Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, the Duluth Festival Opera, and the Bemidji Symphony; with three new sites in year two.
Ramsey
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Nautilus Music-Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,140
Nautilus will tour its chamber music-theater productions to five cities throughout Minnesota: Duluth, Bemidji, Plainview, Saint Cloud, and Bigfork, sponsored in each city by an established presenter.
Ramsey
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Northern Clay Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
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.
Hennepin
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Northrop Concerts and Lectures
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,375
Northrop Concerts and Lectures is piloting a community access program designed to build sustainable relationships with four underserved populations; provide programming reflective of cultural identity and interest; remove barriers of participation; and create points of entry/context for performances.
Hennepin
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Off-Leash Area AKA Off-Leash Area: Contemporary Performance Works
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,000
Off-Leash Area's 2011 Neighborhood Garage Tour, touring contemporary performance to the metro suburbs: 24 performances in 12 neighborhoods over 3 months, reaching approx. 850 people.
Hennepin
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Open Eye Figure Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,800
Open Eye will launch a visibility campaign to engage those in the community that do not participate in the arts because of perceived barriers of affordability or lack of awareness of the theater.
Hennepin
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Red Eye Collaboration AKA Red Eye
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,675
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.
Hennepin
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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
The Ordway will increase access for senior citizens with limited income and/or transportation challenges to attend “Guys and Dolls” and contribute stories of the time period through workshops with artists.
Ramsey
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000
Hyphe-NATIONS: Immigrants Matter is a community-based project that will involve creating a sustained relationship with Latina/o immigrants and the Latin American community of Lake Street and its surrounding neighborhoods between July 2010 and June 2011 through workshops, events, and dialogues.
Hennepin
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,300
Pangea World Theater, along with the Lao Assistance Center and Intermedia Arts Minnesota, will bring TeAda Production's Refugee Nation theater performance to the Twin Cities, an acclaimed interdisciplinary/multimedia presentation that explores the impact of war, refugees, global politics and U. S. citizenship.
Hennepin
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Pangea World Theater
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,200
In the Diverse Stages program, Pangea teaching artists and the fine arts faculty of Southwest High School will introduce students to material that will enhance core curriculum as well as prepare students to create original theatrical work based on their lives and issues.
Hennepin