Caponi Art Park AKA Caponi Art Park and Learning Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$13,610
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Caponi Art Park will increase access to the arts for underserved youth in Dakota County through a new outreach program of tours, activities and performances.
To establish a scholarship fund that can be used by low-income residents in our community to ensure that anyone with an interest can access our programming regardless of financial ability.
Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester AKA Choral Arts Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$5,500
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Choral Arts Ensemble partnering with two community groups, will provide 3 free public concerts, with an educational talk, to engage underserved members of the public in meaningful arts performances.
Only 6.7 percent of schools with 55-100 percent of students getting free/reduced fee lunches access CLIMB although 716 of 716 Title 1 teachers surveyed want us. This proposal provides free performances of three plays we'll revise to meet Title 1 school needs.
CLIMB writes/performs six short one-acts outdoors at 28 rural community events; townspeople attending Intergenerational Dialogues choose the plays' topics, discuss theater, and learn our process.
COMPAS will collaborate with the Kulture Klub Collaborative to provide a worksite for homeless youth to create art under the guidance of visual artist Rogger Cummings, while participating in ArtsWork, an arts-based summer employment program.
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.
The Historic Holmes Theatre is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes to provide free access to concerts/arts events and a free summer theatre camp for low income children/adults.
Duluth Art Institute Association AKA Duluth Art Institute
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$5,190
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
The Duluth Art Institute will host internationally recognized artist Wing Young Huie to present two community workshops in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth to engage audiences with issues of identity and diversity through the use of portrait photography.
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will substantially expand its service to hospice patients by creating a new partnership with St. Mary's Medical Center, building our current relationship with St. Luke's Hospice Duluth and increasing the number of trained hospice musicians.
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$24,700
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
"Stories from Yesterday and Today: Continuing the Circle of Life" - A Center for the Arts, Kaddatz Galleries, and Otter Tail County Historical Society bring storytelling into senior centers while gathering stories from seniors to share with community and family.
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$48,000
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Arts 101 is 12 months of quality and meaningful arts samplers traveling TO existing groups of any age.For participants,tickets and transportation will be provided for a more in depth experience.
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$10,200
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia AKA The Minnesota Sinfonia
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$26,900
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Working with local professional teaching artists, Overtures will feature north Minneapolis children as the starring attraction for 2 Minnesota Sinfonia performances to occur in North Minneapolis.
Great River Educational Arts Theatre AKA GREAT Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$49,000
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
The Theatre 4 All Initiative will eliminate barriers to ensure access to quality live theater for 1,000 disadvantaged youth in St. Cloud's inner-city schools.
The Guthrie Theater will create $5 Previews, promoted through nonprofits, college job placement offices, and (re)employment agencies, to provide access for underemployed and emerging professionals aged 21-35.
The Second Tuesdays Project is a free, monthly event featuring artmaking and artist talks that will broaden public access to art experiences and engage new audiences.
Hmong Arts Connection request funds to produce two issues of Paj Ntaub Voice, the premier literary Hmong magazine, and to launch our Hmong writers speaking and teaching series.
