To photograph the process of farming throughout the growing season, creating a body of work that illustrates rural life in Minnesota while bringing to light local agricultural resources.
Swede Hollow - a new opera created in collaboration with Friends of Swede Hollow and original residents of this historic area of Saint Paul, to be premiered in Swede Hollow Park on May 12, 2012.
To compose music for a CD, hire and rehearse musicians, record, and premiere the music. To promote herself through the creation of a Website, and with multiple performances.
For a year long period of focused study and work in the discipline of water-based, non-toxic printmaking, culminating in a public exhibition and catalogue.
To produce a visual and narrative illustration or embodied photographic history of how fashion trends from 1800-1945 have accentuated the body to define certain erotic zones.
The proposed project is a new shadow puppet play that mixes Chinese and American shadow styles to bring an entirely new form of shadow puppetry to Minnesotan audiences.
To purchase materials and printing services to create a gallery exhibition for the Art and Motherhood project, and for dedicated time to follow through with the project.
To complete new work depicting real and imagined classical references in the contemporary Minneapolis landscape, utilizing large photographs and a two-volume set of handmade books.
To research and create a full-length professional audio CD, a 12-minute DVD, and two public concerts in Minnesota featuring Hawaiian music on the theme of fresh water.
To develop sonic ceramic filters to use in collaboration with another sonic artist to produce and perform compositions that will take advantage of the resonant properties of ceramics.
A Hip Hop digital album, CD and vinyl record by an all Hmong American team for mass distribution at Hmong festivals and gatherings as well as through Hip Hop and community events.
To complete a large-scale, site-specific, temporary public art installation in a rural Minnesota setting using an existing form or architectural space and fiber as the basis for his work.
The project will continue the work he has been doing for the past six years, photographing quirks and eccentricities of vernacular architecture in various neighborhoods of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
To challenge the status quo of the music industry and change the platform of R and B and hip-hop with the help of other Minnesota artists, and to finish and promote his album.
To complete an evening length dance/video piece, workshop it at a domestic violence shelter, perform it at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis, and tour it to Silver Bay and Duluth.
To define an ethnic voice in his songwriting (process) and record a music CD (product) that examines sociopolitical issues within the Hmong American community using both Hmong and English languages.
To explore the world of sculpture and motion through clay animation by creating a dancer. He envisions that this will become a small animated dance company.
To create and compose a new musical theater piece based on the Biblical story of David and Jonathan set in Northern Minnesota using a variety of theatrical techniques.
To produce an artist book of photographs of medicinal plants with writing that contextualizes her interest in botany, photography, and issues of medicine/health/biodiversity.
Artist will gain enhanced technical skills and knowledge of production through workshops to produce 4-8 ready-to-sell wearable art pieces to be showcased in the Spring 2012 Art Crawl.
Dream is an electric water performance filled with intense imagery of unexpected elements being introduced one after another in a manner as disconnected and randomly nonsensical as a dream.
To develop a new body of artwork that can be exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. To find venues for that artwork, and construct a Website that accurately promotes his artistic progress.
To gather and share traditional Minnesota fiddle tunes with audiences via modern venues and learn Minnesota old-time music and develop resources to preserve these traditions for future generations.
To compose and produce a Harbor Symphony for ships’ horns in Duluth-Superior and a Car-Horn Fanfare at several community events. To install wind-powered sound-sculptures in metro area parks.
Funding to curate and present a free four-week interactive exhibit of performance and visual art on frozen Medicine Lake in Plymouth. The exhibit will be on view in winter 2012.
Funding for interactive visual arts workshops for Cambodian-American women artists that will culminate in an exhibition. The exhibition will take place in Minneapolis in late 2011 to early 2012.
Funding to work with seven collaborating partners to conduct residencies in flamenco dance, music and culture with approximately 350 children and youth at seven Twin Cities schools from May through December 2011.
Funding for a new Outreach and Residency Program at Mulberry Junction in northeast Minneapolis, Envisions Academy of the Arts in Burnsville, and dance studios in south Minneapolis, Eden Prairie and White Bear Lake from March through August 2011.
Funding for Send in the Jazz, a collaborative dance piece featuring choreographers Karis Sloss and Zoe Sealy. Performances will take place at the Ritz Theater in July 2011.
Funding for Jazz at Studio Z, a yearlong series of monthly jazz workshops and concerts featuring local musicians. Workshops and performances will take place at Studio Z in downtown St. Paul between September 2011 and 2012.
Funding to produce and present Diabetes of Democracy, a multidisciplinary performance project that uses culturally-specific cuisine and storytelling to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes. Performances will take place at Intermedia Arts in October 2011.
