Grants Awarded Fiscal Year 2014
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
Art Projects |
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| 9/24/2013 | |||
| Blue Mound Area Theatre | Luverne | James Sewell Ballet performance of “Lover” | $3,200 |
| Calumet Players | Pipestone | Children’s Theater 2014 Performances | $1,715 |
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | CRAYO Symphony Spring 2014 Season with Guest Soloist/Masterclass | $5,000 |
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | Varsity Strings/Intro to Strings Spring 2014 Season & Field Trip | $3,785 |
| Dakota Wicohan | Morton | Star Stories: Digital storytelling residency with Dallas Goldtooth | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Orchestra | Marshall | Chamber Music Series: “Prairiemusic: Big Music in a Small Space” | $2,610 |
| Friends of the Orchestra | Marshall | Children’s Concert/ Youth String Concerto Competition | $5,000 |
| Green Earth Players | Luverne | Production of “Willy Wonka” | $5,000 |
| Hutchinson Photography Club | Hutchinson | 2013 Photography Club Showcase Exhibit | $1,650 |
| Meander Art Crawl | Granite Falls | Meander 2014: Upper Minnesota River Arts Crawl | $5,000 |
| Prairie Wind Folk Music & Bluegrass Association | Lakefield | 2013-2014 Concert Series | $3,300 |
| RiverSong Music Festival | Hutchinson | RiverSong Music Festival 2014 | $5,000 |
| Southwest Minnesota Orchestra | Marshall | Spring 2014 Concert: “Brahms and Beyond” | $5,000 |
| Walnut Grove Community Club | Walnut Grove | Walnut Grove Arts & Music Festival 2014 | $4,938 |
| Willmar Area Arts Council | Willmar | Studio Hop 2014 | $3,875 |
| Willmar Area Theatre | Willmar | Winter Theatre Season, 2013-2014 | $5,000 |
| 1/28/2014 | |||
| ’52 Wing Restoration Committee | Appleton | 2014 Summer Concert Series | $3,200 |
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | Introduction to Strings Summer Session | $3,486 |
| Granite Falls Area Community Theater | Granite Falls | Production of “The Boys Next Door” | $3,500 |
| Historic Hutchinson | Hutchinson | Production of “Smoke on the Mountain: Sanders Family Homecoming” | $5,000 |
| Hutchinson Public Arts Commission | Hutchinson | Hutchinson Sculpture Stroll | $4,900 |
| Hutchinson Theatre Company | Hutchinson | 2014 Young Stars Theatre Education Program | $2,200 |
| Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | Marshall | Performance Series 2014-2015 | $2,200 |
| Minnesota Pottery Festival | Hutchinson | 2014 Festival (3rd Annual) | $4,150 |
| New London Music Group | New London | 2014 New London Music Festival | $5,000 |
| Oyate Nipi Kte | Granite Falls | Winyanpi Wokiksuye (Remembering Women) Song Project | $5,000 |
| Prairie Arts Continuum | Windom | Production of “Rest Assured” | $910 |
| Prairie Dance Alliance | Marshall | Dance Camp 2014 | $3,264 |
| Spicer Beautification Committee | Spicer | Adirondack Chairs | $2,600 |
| Willmar Community Theatre (The Barn) | Willmar | Summer Theatre Season 2014 | $5,000 |
| Willmar Area Arts Council | Willmar | Celebrate Art! Celebrate Coffee! 2014 | $4,200 |
| Yellow Medicine East Community Education | Granite Falls | Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre Residency: “The Wizard of Oz” | $750 |
| 4/22/2014 | |||
| Big Stone Arts Council | Ortonville | Lakeside Writers Weekend 2014 | $3,215 |
| Buffalo Ridge Chorale | Hendricks | Concert Series with Commissioned Work & Jazz Group | $5,000 |
| City of Cottonwood | Cottonwood | Musical Talent at Central Park Market | $2,400 |
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | CRAYO/Crow River Singers Messiah Concert | $4,963 |
| Friends of the Orchestra | Lynd | Remembrance of the Great War: WWI Commemoration Series | $5,000 |
| Granite Falls Riverfront Revitalization | Granite Falls | Granite Falls Community Walking Theater | $3,500 |
| Jackson County Library | Lakefield | Minneapolis Guitar Quartet with Gao Hong | $1,360 |
| Lac qui Parle Valley Community Education | Madison | Summer Theater: Shakespeare for Everyone | $1,725 |
| Prairie Arts Chorale | Prinsburg | 2014-2015 Concert Season | $2,362 |
| Prairie Dance Alliance | Marshall | Production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” in January 2015 | $5,000 |
| Rhythm of the River | Jackson | 8th Annual Rhythm of the River | $5,000 |
| Total Art Projects: | $159,958 | ||
Arts Legacy Projects |
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| 1/28/2014 | |||
| Cultural Awareness Organization | Worthington | 2014 International Festival | $10,000 |
| Lac qui Parle County Historical Society | Madison | River Stories Map: The Lac qui Parle River | $8,452 |
| 4/22/2014 | |||
| Crow River Players | New London | Place Base Historical Theater | $16,160 |
| Worthington Okabena Windsurfers | Worthington | Worthington Public Art Projects | $18,200 |
| Total Arts Legacy Projects: | $52,812 | ||
Arts Legacy Planning |
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| 9/24/2013 | |||
| City of Canby | Canby | Community Survey: Arts Council Engagement | $667 |
| Total Arts Legacy Planning: | $667 | ||
Arts in the Schools |
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| 11/26/2013 | |||
| Red Rock Central Schools | Lamberton | 40th Annual Lamberton Jazz Festival | $1,332 |
| Southwest Minnesota State University | Marshall | Bill Prince Jazz Residency | $2,500 |
| 3/25/2014 | |||
| Adrian High School | Adrian | Field Trip: Walker Art Center & Sculpture Garden | $1,000 |
| Appleton/Milan Elementary | Appleton | Millefiore Animal Sculpture Residency with Layl McDill | $5,000 |
| Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School | Grove City | Christopher Yaeger Dance Residency | $2,500 |
| Eden Valley Watkins High School | Eden Valley | Book Arts Residency with Heidi Jeub | $2,500 |
| Lac qui Parle Valley Schools | Madison | Ross Sutter Dulcimer Residency | $2,500 |
| New London-Spicer Middle School | New London | Craig Edwards Pottery Residency | $1,723 |
| Total Arts in the Schools: | $19,055 | ||
Arts Organization Development & Equipment/Facilities Improvement |
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| 9/24/2013 | |||
| Appleton 52 Wing Restoration Committee | Appleton | Speakers for Band Stand | $2,000 |
| City of Canby | Canby | Arts Council Strategic Planning | $1,980 |
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | Planning Follow-Up Meeting | $135 |
| New London Arts & Culture Alliance | New London | Office Equipment/Art Campus Consultant | $3,989 |
| Prairie Arts Council | Lester Prairie | Prairie Arts Center Start-Up/Office Renovation | $4,800 |
| Swift County Concert Band | Appleton | Purchase Concert Bells | $1,808 |
| 11/26/2013 | |||
| Buffalo Ridge Chorale | Hendricks | Filing for Non-Profit Status | $1,584 |
| Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | Marshall | Hire Financial Consultant | $1,800 |
| Rock County Fine Arts Association | Luverne | Web Site & Brochure | $1,718 |
| 1/28/2014 | |||
| Crow River Area Youth Orchestra | Hutchinson | Computer Accessories & Cell Phone | $558 |
| Granite Area Arts Council | Granite Falls | Chairs and Tables | $2,000 |
| RiverSong Music Festival | Hutchinson | Storage Shelves for Music Festival | $1,131 |
| 4/22/2014 | |||
| Dawson-Boyd Arts Association | Dawson | ADA Assessment & Consultation | $1,456 |
| Friends of the Auditorium, Inc. | Worthington | Board Development Grant | $2,000 |
| Hutchinson Center for the Arts | Hutchinson | Fund Raising Skills Development & Board Engagement | $2,000 |
| Hutchinson Center for the Arts | Hutchinson | Computer, conference phone, cooler | $1,832 |
| RiverSong Music Festival | Hutchinson | RiverSong Music Festival 501(c)3 Filing | $2,000 |
| Total Arts Organization Development: | $32,791 | ||
Individual Artists: Development, Career, & Legacy |
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| 10/22/2013 | |||
| Agnes Alsgaard Lien | Rushmore | County Park Painting/Exhibitions | $5,000 |
| Dana Johnson | Appleton | Short Film | $7,000 |
| David Kelsey Bassett | Tracy | Serigraphy – Commerce & Consumption: Fond Memories | $1,498 |
| Joseph Amato | Marshall | Sicilian Poems | $5,000 |
| Kari Weber | New London | Paintings: Personal Landmarks | $1,500 |
| Marjorie Nilssen | New London | New Encaustic Paintings | $5,000 |
| Nikki Bettcher Erickson | Willmar | Direct “Goodnight Desdemona” | $5,000 |
| Peter Lothringer | Marshall | Professional Recording of New Music | $5,000 |
| Robert Wilde | Dassel | B&W Piezography Photo Printing | $5,000 |
| Scott Wallace | Hendricks | Completion of Bronze and Pre-Cast Concrete Sculpture | $5,000 |
| V. Ellen Starr | Hutchinson | 3D Sculpture Research & Exhibit | $1,500 |
| 4/22/2014 | |||
| David Peterson | Marshall | Branderson Duo Commission | $3,500 |
| Jesse White | Westbrook | Spider Web Painting Framing | $1,500 |
| John Larson | Milan | Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture | $5,000 |
| Mary Mulenburg | Glencoe | It’s All One World | $1,500 |
| Philip Scheevel | Spicer | Ventilation and dust collection system | $1,500 |
| Ron Adams | Willmar | Mural for Health & Human Services Building in Willmar | $7,000 |
| Rosa Pearson | Marshall | Gods, Stars, Frost, Fire: Poems | $1,426 |
| Saara Raappana | Marshall | The Bird-Hungry Sky: A Southwest MN Poetry Tour | $1,500 |
| Total Individual Artists: | $69,424 | ||
Prairie Disciple Award |
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| 3/25/2014 | |||
| John Voit | Marshall | 2014 Prairie Disciple Award | $500 |
| Total Prairie Disciple Award: | $500 | ||
Local Arts Initiative |
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| 7/23/2013 | |||
| SW/WC Service Cooperative | Marshall | Conference for Young Artists | $2,500 |
| 3/25/2014 | |||
| SW/WC Service Cooperative | Marshall | Art Educators Development and Enrichment | $500 |
| Total Local Arts Initiative: | $3,000 | ||
Operating Support |
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| 11/26/2013 | |||
| Crow River Players | New London | Operating Support | $6,011 |
| Dawson-Boyd Arts Association | Dawson | Operating Support | $8,000 |
| Granite Area Arts Council | Granite Falls | Operating Support | $3,155 |
| Hutchinson Center for the Arts | Hutchinson | Operating Support | $11,020 |
| Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | Marshall | Operating Support | $16,584 |
| Milan Village Arts School | Milan | Operating Support | $8,506 |
| Willmar Area Arts Council | Willmar | Operating Support | $7,489 |
| Total Operating Support: | $60,765 | ||
| TOTAL FISCAL YEAR 2014 GRANTS AWARDED: | $398,972 | ||
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