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 work on a nonfiction memoir and literary reportage about the intersection of man and nature, with particular attention paid to spirituality metaphysics and children.
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 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.
The project will explore and create mono prints with a focus on the Tomalist movement for inspiration and direction. Techniques learned here will inform new paintings toward the goal of future exhibitions.
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 finish and present a new manuscript of Lao Minnesotan poetry in Minnesota and develop new skill sets in performance and instruction, business, and arts technology.
For a collection of stories from a group of Liberian women that will commemorate their courage as elderly women--some non-English speaking--thriving in 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 create perform and record an original composition integrating acoustic and electronic music for choreographer Uri Sand's first full evening work premiering in May 2010.
Boat Punks is a film that documents the epic journey of a group of young do-it-yourself travelers who have created a life of freedom and adventure living on homemade houseboats while navigating the rivers of mid-America.
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 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.
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 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 complete the writing of Formulaica-a graphic short story collection- and to hire a graphic designer to create a mock-up to submit to agents and publishers.
