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2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MINNESOTA

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$1,115,600
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Cedar Cultural Center (Minnesota STAR, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Fourth Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional roots based music and dance groups from Finland, Sweden and Norway, and indigenous Sámi musicians.

Center for Arts Criticism
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of In Progress. This community-based, mobile media arts unit engages youth in the artistic disciplines of video production, digital photography, writing and critical appreciation.

Children's Theatre Company and School (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final phase of the Land Bridge Project, an ongoing artistic and civic dialogue about the farm crisis with residents of Minnesota. Working in a consortium with the Perpich Center for Arts Education, the final phase of the project will include performance festivals of participants' original work.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of World Drums in performance and residency. The September 2002 event will feature percussion ensembles and soloists gathered from around the world.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the establishment of The Art of Partnership: Language through the Arts. The nine month program will partner teachers and artists to develop their teaching skills around arts infused, bilingual curriculum for Spanish-speaking students.

Katha Dance Theatre
Crystal, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new production, Ramayana. The piece will use the dance, music, storytelling and mask theater traditions of India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Laos.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a visual arts professional development program for Minneapolis teachers. Visual Thinking Strategies is a multiyear sequential arts curriculum that uses viewing and discussion of visual arts to teach critical thinking and communication skills.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The fall 2002 program will link urban and rural youth, teachers and parents in four performances of Adventures of the Black Dot, a narrated choral work introducing musical concepts within a whimsical story.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a statewide tour of concerts and educational activities. In addition to concerts, the seven-day tour in April 2003 to five cities in Minnesota will include community and school-based workshops.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Kinder Konzerts, the Adopt-a-School program & Young People's Concerts. The program includes commission of a new work to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kinder Konzerts, strengthened musician training, development of new curriculum and ticket subsidies, and commission of a new work in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of St. Paul Sunday, a weekly, one-hour radio series presenting the vitality, diversity and excellence of chamber music. The program will be heard on more than 215 radio stations throughout the United States in 2002-2003.

Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$625,500
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

pARTs Photographic Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Youth Arts Experience. This component of the Focus on Education program, features in-school photography workshops, high school mentoring programs, family workshops and symposia, and exhibition tours to schools.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Chicago Avenue Project. Inspired by New York's nationally renowned 52nd Street Project, inner-city youth work alongside professional artists to create theater pieces.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, distribution and marketing of Studio 360 in 2002-03. A weekly arts and culture radio program designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation and tour of Shakespeare's King Lear. The company will tour 16 performances of a highly physical production of King Lear to audiences in prisons, homeless shelters, and adult education centers serving low-income people in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Total Dollars Awarded: $2,209,600
Total Grants Awarded: 17


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