2013 Ashwini Ramaswamy Ranee A.

Ramaswamy

$10,000 $10,000

Scotland New Zealand, India

Pooja G. Pavan, Minneapolis Wing Y. Huie, Minneapolis

$10,000

India

China $10,000 Texas

Keith M. Taylor

$10,000

James J. Cihlar Timothy J. Nolan

$10,000 $7,200

England Massachusetts

Anne D. Guidry

$8,000

Mexico

Kristin F. Johnson

$10,000

New York

Lynne Maker Kuechle

$9,600

Colorado

Poland Heather A. Slomski $10,000 Texas Sonya M. Berlovitz $2,200 Thailand Jeanne E. Calvit $10,000 New York Erik G. Hoover $9,000 New York Amy M. Rummenie $10,000 Netherlands Heather R. Bren $10,000 Turkey Carol L. Chase Robert H. Dorlac Gary A. Erickson Gregory S. Ganeles Laura K. Hallen $10,000 $5,100 $4,500 $8,000 $10,000 Wisconsin and Sweden Germany England Iceland China

Paul R. Linden

$10,000

$ 1,611,633 Total Awarded/171 Grants/26 out of state travel Ramaswamy will perform an evening-length solo of Bharatanatyam dance in Edinburgh, Scotland and remount the performance in Minneapolis. Ramaswamy will travel to New Zealand and India to work with choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, of the MAU ensemble, to explore a new collaboration. Upon her return to Minnesota, she will present a lecture demonstration to introduce Minnesota audiences to Ponifasios work. Pavan will go to India to research and study Sufi poetry and then record a CD of Sufi inspired music. She will hold a public concert/lecture/demonstration on Sufi music and traditions at the Humphrey Center, in Minneapolis, in early 2014. Huie will travel to China and within the US to create photographs that address issues of personal, national and cultural identity, culminating in an exhibition in Minnesota and China. Taylor will complete his investigation into the search for dark matter at the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota, and travel to FotoFest in Houston, Texas, to show the work to curators and publishers. He will exhibit the work at the mines visitor center and give an artists talk in the Twin Cities. Cihlar will promote the publication of his second book, Rancho Nostalgia. He will conduct readings throughout Minnesota and elsewhere in the US and in England. Nolan will travel to Boston for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference to promote his two books of poetry. He will give ten readings in greater Minnesota and attend a two-week residency at the Anderson Center in Red Wing. Guidry will travel to Mexico to research and complete her novel which takes place there. Back in Minnesota, she will offer writing workshops in collaboration with an organization that benefits Latino women. Johnson will finish a middle-grade novel while working with mentor Jane Resh Thomas. She will also attend a conference for childrens book writers in New York and will read from her new work at a Saint Paul public library. Maker-Kuechle will gather historical information about figure skating at the World Figure Skating Museum in Colorado and will complete a draft of her figure skating memoir and three essays on the subject. She will read from her work at several Twin Cities venues. Slomski will go to Krakow, Poland to research the setting of her first novel and then use the rest of the grant period to complete a first draft of the manuscript. She will conduct two readings of her work in progress at several locations in Moorhead. As a presenter and exhibitor, Berlovitz will attend the United States Institute for Theatre Technology conference for design and technology professionals in the performing arts, to be held in Fort Worth, Texas. Calvit will travel to Thailand with Kevin Kling, noted storyteller, to collaborate with Hmong villagers by sharing stories and ceremonies. She will share her experiences in a community forum in collaboration with the Saint Paul Hmong Center. Hoover will accept a one-time opportunity to study intensively with award-winning theater artist Kari Margolis at her training center in New York, to focus on becoming a Margolis Method instructor. He will offer two free workshops on the Margolis Method upon his return to Minnesota. In July 2013, Rummenie will attend a directing workshop at Southampton Arts summer program. Using the new rehearsal techniques, she will stage a series of experimental scenes at Balls Cabaret in Minneapolis. Bren will create a body of work for an exhibition in the Netherlands. While there, she will research delftware imagery to inform a new body of work that will be exhibited in an open studio in Minneapolis. Chase will attend the Istanbul Biennial, a contemporary art exhibition, and study Islamic architecture in Turkey to integrate patterns and decoration into a new body of work. She will give two public lectures about her experience upon her return. Dorlac will travel to Iceland to produce a series of landscape images. An exhibition is planned for a venue in Marshall. Erickson will return to Jingdezhen, China (known as the Porcelain City), to pack and ship fifty pieces of his porcelain sculpture to Minnesota for exhibition at Minnesota State University, Mankato and at Concordia College in Saint Paul. Ganeles will give two public lectures at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design after traveling to Berlin, Germany to research Berlin's street art and public art movements. Hallen will travel to England to visit the Millennium Seed Bank and Royal Botanic Gardens. She will learn about seed conservation and create a new body of work which will be exhibited at the Reedy Gallery at the Arboretum in Chanhassen. Linden will work with recognized master artisans in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Sweden, focusing on safe and sustainable hand tool skills and tool-making, to be implemented into his own creative work. He will conduct lectures and demonstrations throughout Minnesota.

Melissa L. LoopAnderson Margaret R. PezallaGranlund Thomasin L. Ringler

$10,000 $10,000

French Polynesia California

$9,600

Latvia

Elaine B. Rutherford

$9,300

Australia

2012 Julieta Alvardo Marion Angelica

$10,000 $9, 722

Virginia New Mexico

Nona Kennedy Carlson

$10,000

North Dakota

Linda Chatterton Alicia Conroy

$10,000 $5,500

England Nova Scotia

Susana di Palma

$6,800

Spain

Bernice FicekSwenson

$9,300

Massachusetts

Craig Johnson

$10,000

Canada

Cynthia Levine

$8,000

Maine

Anthony Marchetti

$10,000

Mexico

Charles Matson Lume

$10,000

Arctic Circle

Liz Miller

$10,000

Italy

Jude Nutter

$7,000

Germany

Josephy Papke

$10,000

New York

Andrew Peterson

$9,900

Maine, Nova Scotia 5 major US cities U.K., Italy and Switzerland

Bao Phi Aparna Ramaswamy

$10,000 $10,000

Loop-Anderson will go to French Polynesia to research and gather materials for a body of work that will focus on colonialism and subjugation through the military and tourist industry. An exhibition at Gallery 122 in Minneapolis is planned. Pezalla-Granlund will create a portfolio of silkscreened posters during a residency at the Montalvo Arts Center in California and at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. She will exhibit the series at Prairie Woodworking in Minneapolis. Ringler will conduct research on sculptural iron casting in Latvia in preparation for her Iron/Space Exchange Project. She will create a sculpture installation at the Open-Air Museum at Pedvale in Latvia and Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. Rutherford will develop a body of work that will explore the experiences of loss and longing that accompany migration and displacement. She will exhibit this work at the Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis and University of Notre Dame in Freemantle, Australia. $ 1,244,368 Total Awarded/140 Grants/17 out of state travel Alvarado will research Thomas Jefferson's collection of harpsichord music from his personal music library in Monticello and present it in recital throughout Minnesota. Angelica will travel to New Mexico to research and create of a body of ceramic work based upon the land and vegetation of the high desert. Upon her return, she will offer a public workshop and exhibition. Carlson will complete the first draft of her novel, "Boom," which takes place in the Bakken Oil Field of North Dakota. She will hold public readings throughout Minnesota and be available to lecture at colleges and other institutions that deem the work important or relevant. Chatterton will commission composer Ailis Ni Riain to compose a new work for flute and will give concerts in England and Minnesota. Conroy will travel to Nova Scotia to do research about the indigenous Mi'kmaq people and their first encounter with European colonists, in order to complete a draft of her historical novel. As segments of the novel develop, she will read the new material at public readings in Minnesota Di Palma will attend the 17th Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla, attend twenty concerts, take classes in singing for dance, and do research and prep work on "Con Vivir," a theater/flamenco piece. Ficek-Swanson will create three large, copper plate photogravures on the subject of water, at the Jon Goodman Photogravure Studio in Massachusetts. Upon completion, she will make a presentation about this project and the photogravure process at Photography At The Center in Minneapolis. Johnson will increase his furniture-making ability by attending an advanced chairmaking workshop in Canada. The finished chairs will be displayed in Minneapolis and Grand Rapids. He will also create a blog and make a presentation to the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild about his experience. Levine will participate in a two-week residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine. Upon return to Minnesota, she will create new work for an exhibition at the Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis. Marchetti will print and frame fifteen images for a two-person exhibition of his project, Tijuana, at Casa del Tunel in Tijuana, Mexico. There will be a second exhibition of the work at Concordia University in Saint Paul. Lume will participate in an artist residency at the edge of the Arctic Circle to further develop his light-based installations. He will create a book to document his artistic process and capture his ephemeral work. Twenty of the books will be donated to libraries around the state. Miller will travel to Italy to study pattern, ornament, and decoration in Italian Baroque and Gothic architecture. She will translate her observations into a large-scale installation and will detail her progress through monthly blog posts where readers can watch as her work develops. Nutter will spend three months in Germany researching her connections and relationship to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, for a new poetry collection. She will do readings of the new work, to demonstrate how poetry can have far-reaching effects when bearing witness to actual events. Papke, a local voice and dialect coach, will complete a workshop with master speech teachers in New York, then offer three, free introductory workshops on voice and dialect skills to the Twin Cities public. Peterson will travel to Maine and Nova Scotia to complete research on a screenplay about artist Marsden Hartley, write the first draft, and present a staged reading of the work-in-progress. Phi will tour and promote his first poetry collection, "Song I Sing," in at least five major US cities. He will present at least one performance in the Twin Cities. Ramaswamy will present solo performances in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland, as part of the internationally known Soorya Festival. Upon her return to Minnesota, Ramaswamy will present an informal performance and talk that will be free and open to the public.

2011 Katsushi Fukasawa

$10,000

Dharamsala, India Chennai, India

Ashwini Ramaswamy

$10,000

James T Allen

$8,850

California and Brazil Bulgaria, Paraguay Argentina Various Film Festivals (New York or Los Angeles) India 3 or more out of state photography reviews California

Elizabeth Barnes

$10,000

Paula Gudmundson Sayer Frey

$3,900 $9,700

$1,272,386 Total Awarded/147 Grants/19 out of state travel Fukasawa will attend Subbody Butoh School in the fall 2011 to further advance his skill as a Butoh practitioner. He will also develop new work and present at the First Annual International Butoh Festival. Ramaswamy will travel to India for private lessons with Alarmel Valli, the greatest living master of bharatanatyam. She will conduct master classes that are free and open to the public upon her return. To study, perform and teach traditional and contemporary Brazilian guitar music by participating in specialized training and providing free public performances and workshops throughout Minnesota. Barnes will develop new programs featuring the folk and classical music of these two countries and work with Minnesota based folk music colleagues to develop educational tools to make these unique musical traditions available to all ages. Travel to Argentina to research and recover flue works for flute and piano. In Minnesota perform and record rediscovered works. Research and develop a 90 minute feature film called In Love with Ghosts, about a mechanical engineer compelled to rebuild her life after a car accident.

Norah Shapiro Warren Lex Thompson

$10,000 $5,200

Return to Dharamsala, India for a final shoot to complete feature length documentary work in progress, Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile. Print the images in his series, Mahalo, create a book mockup, and take them to photo review events to introduce the work to notable art world professionals and gain a wider audience for his work. To support Barnhills research for a new novel, to attend three conferences to deepen her connections into the publishing community and to connect with readers in outstate Minnesota. Bouwman will complete a middle-grade novel, consult with an editor and attend a conference to meet with editors and agents. For research and language instruction in China for memoir about her mothers traumatic youth in the Cultural Revolution and its repercussions on her immigrant life and relationship with her bi-ethnic daughter. Kingsley will use to promote and support racial, cultural, gender and age pluralism through the development and completion of her play, Roof on my House. Rothstein will research, write and develop a musical about the Swing Youth of Nazi Germany. (Swing Heil! Working title) Observe the creative process of a new Broadway musical through the SDC Observership Program. For Body of Memory, an in-progress manuscript of poetry. It will record a history of the Vietnam War that reflects an emotional truth through family stories, Vietnamese landscape, films and memories. Rasmussen will attend two artist residencies, complete a poetry manuscript and submit it for publication. To create a series of poems exploring the Finnish immigrant community near Duluth where artists grandparents farmed; attend workshops and conferences that will provide feedback and inspiration for this work. This project examines the role of public monuments as palimpsests of memory. Artist residencies in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will support on-site research and creation of new work. Corcoran will work with scientists to gather imagery and information needed to further develop the ecological content of artists work on bird migration. Using clay and found objects, Herzak-Bauman will inhabit and create an installation with the entire space of a house, re-contextualizing each room to reflect on death, loss and grief within a domestic space. $1,000,000 Total Awarded/183 Grants/31 out of state travel For time, travel and research to complete a novel set in and around Yellowstone National Park. To complete a draft of her novel, The Orchardist, for a research trip to Washington state and to pay three editors to review her manuscript before sending it to agents and publishers. To print and frame photographs for an exhibition at Normandale Community College and attend FotoFest to broaden national visibility. For research in Japan, to complete a book of poems on tattoo iconography and culture, and for time for writing and revisions. For research in a remote Chinese Red Yao village documenting the unique and pure music and culture of this Chinese minority group and compose a new work for choir. Funds will be used for travel to Edison, NJ and for creative time to complete a novel titled Edison, about the extensive Indian community in this uniquely American town.

Kelly Barnhill

$9,950

Heather Bouwman Gwynevere Fallbrooke

$5,900 $8,400

California China

Barbara Kingsley Peter Rothstein

$10,000 $10,000

Ohio Germany, Washington, DC, New York Vietnam

Anh-Hoa Nguyen

$10,000

Matthew Rasmussen

$5,000

Lynette Reini-Grandell

$10,000

2 out of state artist residencies Out of state workshops India, Pakistan, Bangladesh Costa Rica, Alabama Pennsylvania

Pritika Chowdhry

$10,000

Laura Corcoran Lauren HerzakBauman 2010 Joel Arnold Amanda Coplin

$7,500 $8,600

$6,000 $6,000

Montana Washington

Gina Dabrowski Meryl DePasquale Gao Hong Pallavi Dixit

$6,000 $5,800 $6,000 $6,000

Texas Japan China New Jersey

David Echelard

$3,500

France

Melody Gilbert Sarah Greer Daniel Handeen Pricilla Briggs

$6,000 $6,000 $5,000 $6,000

Germany, Norway Italy Ghana China

Claire Hellweg

$6,000

Norway

Ralph Hepola

$6,000

Indiana

Patricia Kirkpatrick

$6,000

Massachusetts

Amy Kortuem Brett Kallusky Sylvia Horwitz

$6,000 $6,000 $3,200

Ireland Italy Argentina

Baker Lawley Ed Bok Lee Douglas Little Margaret Todd Maitland Anthony Marchetti

$4,500 $6,000 $6,000 $6,000 $5,800

Vermont South Korea Southeast Asia Italy Mexico and California Israel NA

For travel to France to attend a series of traditional French music and dance workshops and festivals, to create and learn new French traditional music and dance repertoire and to create new music compositions using French traditional instruments. To film interviews in Germany and Norway for a sequel to a documentary she directed and shot in 2005 called A Life Without Pain, about three children who cant feel pain. To attend the 2010 All The Way In program, a year-long study and practice of vocal improvisation to advance her improvisation skills and build collaborator networks. To travel to Ghana to learn traditional Ewe rhythms. To photograph workers, exporters and buyers involved in the complex production and export of consumer goods into and from China, to put a human face on a global economic machine. For a concert series of Norwegian horn music in various venues in Minnesota and the surrounding area, upon her return from study of the repertoire with Froydis Ree Wekre in Oslo. To market his solo tuba performances of classics and contemporary jazz through his Web site and recordings, at the Midwest Arts Conference and with an appearance at a major educational conference. To complete a poetry manuscriptOdessa-for travel to the Minnesota prairie and to attend the 2010 Meningioma Awareness Day conference sponsored by the Brain Science Foundation. To travel with her Celtic harp to Ireland to attend the OCarolan Harp Festival and to study traditional Irish music performance and technique. To return to Italy and continue photographing for his ongoing project, Viaggio con Le Viste (Journey with Views). To continue an intensive photographic project involving the Disappeared during Argentinas Dirty War (1976-83) with emphasis on current civil trials for crimes committed during the military regime. To complete a short story collection through attending a research and writing retreat at the Vermont Studio Center; seek a literary agent and publication of the work. To attend an international poetry conference in South Korea and conduct interviews, gather research and write the final section of his second manuscript of poetry. The project includes developing new repertoire and to perform as a jazz soloist in Southeast Asia at various music venues and conservatories. For travel to Pompeii to research images of women for a memoir set in Italy. To document cultural/class differences in San Diego and Tijuana residential architecture resulting from the transmigration of building materials and small homes across the United States and Mexico border. To return to Israel to finish documenting walls which have amassed layers of physical history, metaphorically speaking, to Israels political history. For travel and production expenses for exhibitions and artist talks promoting the publication of her first book thus expanding her audience and building connections for the future. The project involves presenting two concerts in the Twin Cities and New York City that showcase solo piano music of Minnesota composers. TO travel to the Netherlands in the summer of 2010 to study gypsy jazz guitar technique and performance. To create a body of photographs comparing the lake district of England to the lakes of northern Minnesota. To research at the National Archive in Washington for Ice Show World, a documentary revealing the Golden Age of the 40s-60s Ice Follies, Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice revues. She will give performances of experimental electro-acoustic music in Berlin, Germany as part of a festival at the Academy of Music in Berlin. To film, edit and produce a documentary film series based on the life of present day Chinese minority people in Yunnan Province, China. To promote her forthcoming memoir at the International Korean Adoptee Gather 2010 in Seoul. She will also do research at Ae Ran Won, a maternity home in Seoul, then complete a new poetry manuscript based on that material. $505,500 Total Awarded/89 Grants/21 out of state travel To attend the Festival del Flamenco in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. To travel to Spain for 23 days for intensive one-on-one study with flamenco artist Domingo Ortega in Jerez de la Frontera. To build on her roles as Principal Dancer and Soloist with Ragamala Music and Dance Theater, and to present full-length solo performances during the 2009 Dance and Music Festival in Chennai, India. For travel to Bali to work with I Dewa Putu Berata to plan and map the production of,Dvee.

Joshua Mattes Paula McCartney

$5,500 $6,000

Matthew McCright Samuel Miltich Vivienne Morgan Keri Pickett

$5,500 $3,600 $6,000 $6,000

New York Netherlands United Kingdom Washington, DC

Shannon Wettstin Frank Sander Sun Yung Shin

$4,900 $6,000 $6,000

Germany China South Korea

2009 Susana M. di Palma Deborah Elias Aparna Ramaswamy

$4,200 $6,000 $6,000

Spain Spain India

Ranee A. Ramaswamy

6,000

Indonesia

Jeanne E. Calvit

$6,000

Congo

May Moua G. LeeYang Christopher P. Baker Beth Barnes Liz Bucheit Nicholas A. Conbere Andy DuCett

$6,000

Not Available

$6,000 $6,000 $6,000 $6,000 $6,000

Hungary New York China Finland California

Julia C. Kouneski

$5,000

Brazil

Lee Love

$6,000

Japan

Charles Matson Lume

$6,000

Iceland

Bernadette S. Mahfood George M. Mahoney Sonja D. Peterson

$6,000

New Mexico, New York New York Illinois, New York New York

$6,000 $6,000

Kenneth A. Steinbach

$6,000

David M. Stordahl

$6,000

Norway

Andrew P. Wykes Laura Heit-Youngbird

$6,000 $6,000

New York Illinois

2008

To travel to Pointe Noire, Congo to the Theatre Festival (TECEJ) to research and develop a cross-cultural project, We Are All Africans, with leading African playwright, Jean Leopold. To build name recognition as an artist by staging a full production of her play in Spring 2009 and for funds to attend strategic conferences to build networks that may lead to national bookings. To participate in a six-month artist residency in Budapest to collaboratively develop public installation art with a leading Hungarian architect and artist. To procure and produce a solo show for the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, and to investigate another venue in New York City. For research and travel to observe the silver working villages of the Guizhou District in China in preparation for a new body of work. For travel costs to Finland to examine local graphic arts approaches and to begin a new series of drawings and prints. For creative research and travel to Tokyo for a pre-arranged meetings with gallery directors, and to attend the opening reception of his work at the Tinlark Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, in the fall of 2009. For travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to research the work of Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, and to develop and create new participatory artworks/installations upon her return. To complete his ceramic studio, to research and develop clays and glazes used in Japan with Minnesota materials, to facilitate exchange between creative people in Japan and Minnesota, and to prepare educational materials and publications about the exchanges. To study the light in Iceland at the Baer Art Center, strategize with a curator at The Drawing Center, and to research and purchase new materials to create a new body of artwork. To expand on a newly developed series of glass and fiber pieces, to relate them to her female ancestors, and to create more exhibition opportunities in the Twin Cities, New York City, and Sante Fe. To exhibit his new design chair/lounge at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May 2009. For installation expenses for an upcoming MAEP exhibition, documentation of the exhibition, portfolio materials, and for travel to Chicago and New York City to meet with gallery curators to pursue additional exhibitions. To purchase materials and studio time to complete a series of cast resin works, and fund two trips to New York to make connections with galleries with the goal of getting representation. To photograph houses that still stand from the time when his ancestry lived in Klokkarik, Norway. The photos will be reproduced as large color photogravures at artist Jan Pettersson's studio in Bergen, Norway For framing and documentation costs for his upcoming show at Groveland Gallery, and for travel expenses to New York City to promote his work to galleries. To hire a professional photographer and web designer to create digital images and a website of her work, for travel around Minnesota and Chicago to promote her work and to set up an efficient work space with improved storage and organization. $380,000 Total Awarded/72 Grants