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FY2008 Grant Awards
July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008

Art Projects
24-Mar-08      
Luverne Council for Arts & Humanities in Rock County Rock Arts Presenters Series $3,500.00
Marshall Friends of the Orchestra "Peter and the Wolf" Childrens Concerts $3,700.00
Adrian Adrian Community Education "Footloose" $4,500.00
Prinsburg Prairie Arts Chorale "Come to the Fair!" concerts in $2,859.00
Worthington Cultural Awareness Organization 2008 Worthington International Festival $1,935.00
Windom Business, Arts & Recreation Center, Inc. Jungle Theater "Holocaust Witness: The Legacy of Anne Frank" $1,384.00
Worthington Plum Creek Library System Summer Reading Program, Dennis Warner Concerts $3,413.00
Appleton Western Minnesota Prairie Waters CVB Upper MN Valley Sesquicentennial Visual Arts Display $2,500.00
Granite Falls Meander Art Crawl Meander Art Crawl 2008 $4,500.00
Milan Milan Movers Milan: A Taste of Syttende Mai 2008 $2,892.00
Willmar Willmar Area Arts Council 2008 Celebrate Art! Celebrate Coffee! $4,500.00
Slayton Prairie Oasis Players  "State Fair" Community Musical $2,752.00
Pipestone Calumet Players "The Wizard of Oz" $3,600.00
Garretson Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers Keepers Traditional Pow Wow $4,500.00
Marshall Marshall Area Fine Arts Council Visual Arts Exhibits $4,500.00
Hendricks Hendricks Arts Co - Norwegian Heritage Committee "The Sound of Hendricks" $1,400.00
24-Sep-07      
Tracy Fine Arts Council of Tracy Rogers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" $4,250.00
Willmar Willmar Area Symphonic Orchestra 50th Anniversary Concert Series $4,500.00
Odessa Milan Village Arts School MVAS 20th Anniversary Celebration $2,600.00
Pipestone Calumet Players Fractured Fairy Tales Children's Theater $1,735.00
Currie Friends of the Orchestra "Music and the Academy" Fall Concert $3,550.00
Hutchinson Crow River Arts/Crow River Singers 2007-2008 Concert Series $1,500.00
Luverne Blue Mound Area Theatre The South Dakota Symphony Chamber Orchestra Performance $1,500.00
Windom Business, Arts & Recreation Center, Inc. MN Ballet Performance $4,234.00
Jackson Jackson County Central Community Education Minnesota Orchestra Performance $2,455.00
Windom Prairie Wind Folk Music & Bluegrass Association 2007-08 Concert Series of 5 concerts $2,865.00
Prinsburg Prairie Arts Chorale Five Concerts, selections from Handel's "Messiah" $3,000.00
Tyler Tyler Arts Council 2007-2008 Concert and Exhibit Series $1,253.00
Marshall Marshall Area Fine Arts Council Minnesota Orchestra Performance $3,858.00
Renville Friends of the Arts "I'll Be Home for Christmas" $1,946.00
   

TOTAL Art Projects

$91,681.00
Arts & Learning
27-May-08      
Madison Lac qui Parle Valley Community Education Madison Marietta Nassau Elementary Summer Musical $1,000.00
Worthington Nobles County Art Center Kevin Reese Sculpture Res. and Outdoor Sculpture Installation $2,500.00
Dawson Stevens Elementary School Florence Dacey Poetry Residency $2,500.00
Pipestone Calumet Players Missoula Children's Theatre Residency $750.00
Cottonwood Lakeview School District #2167 Prairie Fire Theater Residency $750.00
Walnut Grove City of Walnut Grove Walnut Grove Family Festival Art Residencies $2,500.00
Fairfax Friends of Fort Ridgley Prairie Fire Theater Residency "A Midsummer's Night Dream" $750.00
Fulda Fulda Community Education Prairie Fire Children's Theatre Residency $750.00
Marshall Parkside Elementary School Cyril Paul Caribbean Dance & Music Residency $2,500.00
Kerkhoven KMS Community Education "Rapunzel, The Musical" $737.00
26-Nov-07      
Lester Prairie Prairie Arts Council Timothy Hassenstein Sculpture Residency for 7th graders $1,630.00
Montevideo Montevideo Independent School District #129 Grant L. Manhart Music Residency $2,136.00
Granite Falls Yellow Medicine East Public Schools Florence Dacey Poetry Residency for 3rd Graders $2,016.00
Luverne Rock County Fine Arts Association Raku and alternative firing method workshop $1,344.00
Marshall Prairie Dance Alliance Summer Dance Camp 2008 $2,278.00
Cottonwood Lakeview School District #2167 Fern Cloud Native American Art Residency $1,640.00
Cottonwood Lakeview School District #2167 Field Trip-MN Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art $547.00
Marshall Southwest Minnesota State University Michael Flack Jazz Residency $1,171.00
Redwood Falls Reede Gray Elementary School "Decades of American Music" Ramona Larson Residency $2,278.00
Marshall Parkside Elementary School Sean Brown Storytelling Residency $2,278.00
Graceville Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley Community Education Prairie Fire Children's Theater "Beauty & The Beast" $683.00
Lamberton Red Rock Central Schools 34th Lamberton Jazz Festival $2,040.00
   

TOTAL Arts & Learning

$34,778.00
Arts Organization Networking Grants
27-May-08      
Dawson Dawson Boyd Arts Association MN Presenters Network Conference $336.00
Marshall Marshall Area Fine Arts Council PAMI Institute $500.00
Litchfield Greater Litchfield Opera House Association, Inc. Tour of Opera Houses $450.00
Redwood Falls Tatanka Arts Great Boards for Nonprofit Organizations workshop $214.00
Worthington Friends of the Auditorium To attend the Midwest Arts Conference $500.00
   

TOTAL Arts Organization Networking Grants

$2,000.00
Arts Study Opportunity for Educators
27-May-08      
Echo Barbara Schueler Pottery Making Workshop $500.00
Brownton Jodi Sanken Artful Teaching Workshops $134.00
Dawson Lucy Tokheim Digital Photography Workshop $500.00
Marshall Pat Finnestad Literacy Center Workshop $459.00
Winsted Sue Neumann Artful Teaching Workshops $130.00
   

TOTAL Arts Study Opportunity for Educators

$1,723.00
Challenge Grants
28-Jan-08      
Walnut Grove Tatanka Arts Membership Drive $500.00
24-Sep-07      
Hutchinson Crow River Arts Membership Drive $500.00
Marshall Marshall Area Fine Arts Council Membership Drive $500.00
Tyler Tyler Arts Council Membership Drive $500.00
   

TOTAL Challenge Grants

$2,000.00
Cultural Bank
Milan Milan Village Arts School "The Spoon Gathering" $126.00
Worthington Friends of the Auditorium The Magic of Ireland $0.00
   

TOTAL Cultural Bank

$126.00
Individual Artist, Prairie Star & Prairie Disciple
27-May-08      
Worthington Eric Parrish Italian imersion study to improve opera singing $500.00
Marshall John Sterner To prepare for an upcoming exhibit of sculpture $2,000.00
Cottonwood Florence Dacey Collaborative poetry work w/ Heart of the Beast/May Day Parade $1,000.00
Milan Karen Jenson Purchase computer for image storage & research $2,000.00
Willmar Joanne Meierhofer Pastel Workshop $495.00
Hendricks Scott Wallace Development of a new body of sculptural works $1,000.00
Dawson Lucy Tokheim New Series of paintings $1,000.00
Mountain Lake Steven Klassen To purchase materials for new acrylic paintings $1,000.00
Willmar Leah Mahlow Bill Gossman Mentorship $500.00
New London Shayann Hoffer Plein Aire Pastel Painting $500.00
28-Apr-08      
Marshall Sheila Tabaka To conduct research for a book $2,000.00
Marshall Peter A. Lothringer To make recordings of original solo guitar music $2,000.00
Willmar Leah D. Mahlow To continue a series of 2D and 3D work $1,000.00
New London Kari C. Lindquist-Weber To prepare paintings for exhibitions $1,000.00
Cottonwood Daniel Blayne Rieppel To record a professional CD of piano music $2,000.00
Cottonwood Julieta Alvarado To commission a Harpsichord Concerto by Robert Whitcomb $2,000.00
Hutchinson Robert Glieden Supplies for black & white photography $1,000.00
Marshall Susan McLean Poetry book entries $300.00
Minneota Bonita Kay VanMoorlehem Materials for a series of paintings $1,000.00
Cottonwood Robert Whitcomb 2008 Prairie Star $1,000.00
Cottonwood Violet Risch 2008 Prairie Disciple $500.00
   

TOTAL Individual Artist, Prairie Star & Prairie Disciple

$23,795.00
Local Arts Development
24-Mar-08      
Walnut Grove Tatanka Arts to obtain official non-profit status $2,100.00
Dawson Dawson Boyd Arts Association Endowment fund publication and equipment purchases $3,250.00
Worthington Friends of the Auditorium "Get Connected & Participate In the Arts" campaign $3,318.00
24-Sep-07      
Milan Milan Village Arts School board retreat, do building updates, and create a logo $4,000.00
Hutchinson Hutchinson Theatre Company Website updating and online ticket sales capability $1,845.00
Marshall Marshall Area Fine Arts Council purchase Aficio laser printer for professional flyers & postcards $549.00
   

TOTAL Local Arts Development

$15,062.00
       
 

  TOTAL Grants Awarded in FY 2008:  95;  TOTAL Funds Awarded in FY 2008:

 $171,165

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