The Saint Paul Community Youth Arts Project will dramatically increase Saint Paul Parks and Recreations ability to use its many community spaces to engage Saint Paul at-risk youth in grades K-12 in high-quality arts learning opportunities during out-of-school time hours.
The Minnesota Teen Artist Exhibition Program (MTAEP) will allow Soo to reach out to teen artists, an under- represented group in our programming, and present their contributions to the public.
Aronson will collaborate with eleven presenters to bring puppetry performances and learning experiences to suburban, rural and urban family audiences across Minnesota, expanding on the work of her 2010 Arts Tour grant.
In 2011, she will tour (as Z Puppets Rosenschnoz) to Duluth Children's Museum, Mankato's Children's Museum, and Austin's Paramount Theatre. Throughout the year, she will present a total of 30 performances and 60 hours of arts education experiences in nearby communities.
Son del Sur performers Nicolas Carter and Mauricio Sanchez will collaborate with host organizations in Cold Spring, Moorhead, Red Wing, and Worthington to offer engaging performances that inspire an appreciation of Latin America’s rich musical heritage and promotes cultural understanding.
Linda Chatterton will work on a performing/educational project within three communities: Bemidji, Willmar, and Northfield. Each community will have her give a recital, master class, and presentation on overcoming performance anxiety. All three will be open to the public.
This project will bring the multi-media show, The Mushroom Picker, about an unlikely World War II hero from a small Midwestern town to the following Minnesota towns: Warroad, Roseau, Lake Bronson, Stephen, Perham, Detroit Lakes, and Grand Rapids.
Herrera will perform Latin and Cuban jazz concerts and classes with his trio at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids, the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts series in Pequot Lakes, and at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University in Collegeville.
In her film, Woven from the Land, diverse women talk about the prairie, loss of rural culture, and connection to land. Screened primarily in rural communities, post-screening discussions will encourage dialogue about the history of land, racism, and healing.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The project will deliver global music concerts, workshops, and activities to 2,000 persons in three underserved communities: seniors in care facilities, youth, and adults with disabilities.
Actors Theater of Minnesota will tour the Hockey Mom Hockey Dad production to the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater in St. Cloud, Minnesota, during January 2011.
Arts for Academic Achievement seeks Arts Board support for, Apprenticeship: What Do (Good) Authors Do? The project will bring highly qualified teaching artists into 34 Minneapolis Public Schools’ second grade classrooms to teach, inspire, and apprentice young writers.
Actors Theater of Minnesota offers free theater, a meal, transportation, and after-play educational questions and answers for members of our community partners grandparents/kin caregivers.
In a book arts and poetry project titled Roots, students will explore their cultural heritage and ancestry by writing prose and poetry, collecting photographs and other visuals components to be assembled into an artist's book and expanded on with a master poetry/bookmaking class the following year.
Using distance learning technology, Artspace and Springboard will help artists in Brainerd, Fergus Falls, and Duluth to engage with and provide arts experiences for their host communities.
The ScrapMobile, a portable art car (van) and art program of ArtStart's ArtScraps Materials Reuse Center, seeks funding to provide free summer arts programming instructed by ArtStart roster artists in parks, housing developments, and recreation centers for underserved youth/families in collaboration with Saint Paul Park and Recreation's Roving Rec program and the St Paul Public Library Bookmobile.
In a new School-Community Access Project, SteppingStone Theatre will address barriers to participation and offer additional community-specific events for families in underserved communities.
Through Peking Opera/Chinese Acrobat, the Project connects under-served Asian American community with theatrical experience, and connects the younger generation with the century old art form.
James Sewell Ballet requests funds to create and tour Dance N' America, an accessible, engaging, and thought provoking performance designed to cultivate new dance opportunities in communities that we visit in greater Minnesota.
The Ten Minute Play Festival will bring together community participants and professional artists to produce original short work providing access to the creative process, and developing new audiences.
Through the Cross-Connections Project Teatro del Pueblo will develop strategic relationships with artistic and community organizations to better reach recent Latino immigrants in the Twin Cities.
Huge Improv Theater will have T. J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi from Chicago, Illinois, tour their nationally recognized improv show to HUGE Theater in Minneapolis.
In partnership with over 50 businesses and organizations, The Cedar will engage East African immigrants with a comprehensive arts program titled Cedar Avenue to Art that uses music events as the focal point and also serves the general public
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Children's Theatre Company will launch Community Superheroes, a project to engage Latino audiences through partnerships with organizations serving Latinos; free tickets and transportation for children and families to two CTC productions; and pre-performance workshops and post-play reflections.
Children's Theatre Company will mitigate barriers to arts learning for children ages two through five and their classroom teachers through Early Bridges, a program of theater arts learning to take place at child care and preschool sites serving low income children.
Textile Center will increase access to its exhibition and education programs through a new outreach service for schools and community-based organization serving low-income youth. Partners receive a transportation stipend and youth participate in a gallery program and hands-on art activity.
COMPAS and Sibley Bike Depot will create jobs within ArtsWork, an arts-based, employment program, for youth to learn bike repair and work with artist Jan Elftmann to turn them into works of art.
Students and community engage in a sustained art-making project exploring the significance of place and culminating in the creation of a mosaic mural that transforms the entrance of our school into a more welcoming environment affirming our diverse community.
Zenon seeks to create and implement an audience development plan targeting the Twin Cities' deaf/hard of hearing community, a group that traditionally lacks access to dance as an art form.
Flying Foot Forum will tour “The Percussion Project” to ten Minnesota communities. It will expand its touring in Minnesota, conduct workshops, and bring quality arts to youth and adults.
Minneapolis based FOOLS PRODUCTIONS proposes a tour of its newest show, THE VAUDEVILLIAN / Spirit of the American Dream to historic theaters and modern performing arts centers across greater Minnesota.
Koom Siab United Hearts--a year-round Pan-Asian dance learning project--provides diverse Asian dance classes to disadvantaged Asian American youth to acquire knowledge/skills, and participate at Koom Siab Pan Asian dance performance.
