Individual Grant Recipients
McKnight/ARAC Artist Support Grants - awarded January 21, 2010
Cecilia Lieder - Duluth ($3,000) Ms. Lieder will use this grant to assist in an upgrade of her studio to allow her to give master workshops developed and produced by the Firelight Inn Bed and Breakfast in Duluth.
Jeffrey Kalstrom - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. Kalstrom will use this grant to work at The Foundry at The National Casting Center in Alfred, New York, with Casting Center Director and international artist Coral Lambert.
Bailey Woodruff - Duluth ($3,000) Ms. Woodruff will use this grant to assist with expenses involved in attending the Shakti School of Dance located in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, and to dance in the Pushkar Temple Dance Festival on March 4, 2010.
Scott Murphy - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. Murphy will use this grant to assist in the production of a mural of Duluth's arts and cultural history commissioned by the Depot Foundation to be installed in the Rotunda of the Saint Louis County Heritage and Arts Center in Duluth.
Kenneth Marunowski - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. Marunowski will use this grant to assist with expenses involved in attending the summer session at the Painting School of Montmiral, France, from June 12 to 26, 2010.
Ken Hanson - Cloquet ($3,000) Mr. Hanson will use this grant to produce a book of 13 drawings and to frame a full scale portfolio of giclee prints for an upcoming exhibition.
Donna LaBeau - Grand Rapids ($1,135) Ms. LaBeau will use this grant to prepare her work for an exhibition at the MacRostie Art Center from April 1 through 30, 2010.
Peter Pestalozzi - Ely ($3,000) Mr. Pestalozzi will use this grant to assist with the expenses involved in his participation by invitation in the 2010 American Craft Council Show in Baltimore from February 23 to 28.
Patrick McKinnon - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. McKinnon will use this grant to participate in a week-long individual mentorship with master poet/editor Tony Moffeit in Pueblo, Colorado, and to be the Featured Poet at the March Pueblo Poetry Project's performance on March 29, 2010.
Ann Bergeron - Duluth ($3,000) Ms. Bergeron will use this grant to participate in the KASA/MIX workshop at the KODO Apprentice Center on Sado Island, Japan, from August 31 to September 11, 2010.
Rachel Nelson - Two Harbors ($3,000) Ms. Nelson will use this grant to record a CD of her original songs and music with stories and spoken word in connection with a series of three concerts to be held in Silver Bay, Duluth, and St. Paul in early March.
Cathy Holm - Cook ($3,000) Ms. Holm will use this grant to assist with the costs related to the publication and the promotion of a collection of her short stories titled Crossroad -- Stories about Place being published by Holy Cow! Press.
John Cook - Hibbing ($3,000) Mr. Cook will use this grant to acquire digital files of his original Duluth art by having it professionally scanned to allow him to self-publish a coffee table book of the images, prose, and supportive text.
Daniel Neff - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. Neff will use this grant to purchase equipment necessary to further develop his art work for submission to the Uptown Art Fair in Minneapolis and the Art Glass Invitiational.
Delina White - Deer River ($1,865) Ms. White will use this grant to purchase materials and equipment necessary to further the making of and the quality of her beaded artwork to better establish herself as a master beadwork artist in the Anishinaabe culture.
McKnight/ARAC Artist Support Grants - awarded October 15, 2009
Cecilia Ramon - Duluth ($1,930) Ms. Ramon will prepare for three exhibitions of her sculpture and installation pieces: at Augsburg College, January 2010; Condordia College, March 2010; and Hopkins Center for the Arts, June 2010.
Paul Lundgren - Duluth ($3,000) Mr. Lundgren will prepare literary work for a series of live performances in collaboration with area artists in different disciplines, to be performed in February 2010 at Teatro Zuccone in Duluth.
Kathleen McTavish - Duluth ($$2,527) Ms. McTavish will purchase computer equipment, software and recording equipment to allow her to document and record original compositions.
Gary Burt - Marble ($750) Mr. Burt will attend the Springfield Arts Retreat for Songwriters in Harbor Springs, MI in November 2009.
Tim Kaiser - Duluth ($760) Mr. Kaiser will perform at the nationally known experimental music venue Art Damage Lodge in Cinncinati, OH, November 2009.
McKnight/ARAC Fellowships - awarded June 20, 2009
The McKnight / ARAC artist fellowship review panel was held Saturday, June 13, 2009. The panel reviewed 29 completed applications requesting a total of $112,000. The panel comprised Glenn Gordon, Twin Cities photographer, designer and arts critic; Cynthia Belmont, working poet and professor of literature at Northland College in Ashland, WI; Greg Moore, working msuician and head of the Jazz Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Superior; and Alison Hiltner, Twin Cities sculptor, installation artist and SOOVAC Gallery staff member. Of those that applied, seven artists received fellowships of $4,000 each. The 2009 Fellows were:
Frank (Tim) Byrns, Duluth, is a sculptor who works with large pieces of local figured hardwood. His work is rooted in the compositional elements of the raw form, such as the colors, shapes, textures and grains found in his materials. He has exhibited and won awards at the Duluth Art Institute, Duluth; in Lakeville, MN; Eagle River, WI; Grand Marais, MN; and in Minneapolis, MN. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Superior. Mr. Byrns will use his fellowship award to purchase materials, document his completed works and allot time to focus on his work.
Eun-Kyung Suh, Duluth, designs sculptural vessels that are created out of diaphanous textiles, using a design originally inspired by a traditional Korean wrapping cloth called Bojagi. Her interest in Bojagi is not in recreating traditional Bojagi but extending the basic patchwork structures into sculptural vessel forms. Folding, wrapping and sewing are employed to transform two dimensional fabrics into three dimensional enclosed forms. Ms. Suh holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa and has exhibited throughout Minnesota, in St. Petersburg, Russia; in Switzerland; and throughout the United States. During the fellowship year, she will work to create five major installation pieces and attend a two week workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME.
David Bowen, Duluth, produces kinetic and robotic systems that are set in motion to create drawings, movements, compositions, sounds and objects based on their perception of and interaction with the space or time they occupy. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and has exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Russia, Spain, Norway, Belgium, Hungary and Thailand. Mr. Bowen will use the fellowship funds to update the equipment necessary to do his art and will produce a robotic installation that will be exhibited both nationally and locally in one-person exhibitions.
Cole Perry, Bovey, has finished writing his first novel, Estuary, and is currently preparing the book for self-publication. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He has a prose poem entitled "Dear Abby" published in Oxfamily and a micro-fiction published in Only One Shot Only entitled "Horsetaste." Mr. Perry will use the time allowed by the fellowship to edit and rewrite portions of the novel in preparation for publication.
Justin Rubin, Duluth, composes primarily chamber music that has a very chormatic, yet accessible approach to tonality and is not restricted by style or systems. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition degree from the University of Arizona and was awarded the Broadcast Music Incorporated Student Composer Award and the Plymouth Music Series Essentially Choral Composer Award. His composition, Durkh u Durkh, for violin, mandolin and guitar was performed by Duo46 with Avi Avital at the Soundscape Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, in 2008. He has had work performed in Serbia; at the Boston Conservatory; at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia; and at Le Conservatoire Centre Georges-Gorse in Paris. Mr. Rubin plans to document some of his recent compositions with a professionally recorded CD to present to potential performers around the country.
Betsy Husby, Duluth, is a cello recitalist who is interested in the emotional impact and cultural influences of the music she performs. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York and has received numerous awards. Ms. Husby has performed in the International Tchaiskovsky Competition; in Petrozavodsk as part of the Sister City program; in Greensboro, North Carolina, as a tribute to one of her instructors, Bernard Greenhouse, as well as in several cities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. During her fellowship year, Ms. Husby will tour, both regionally and nationally, a recital call "Mostly Living Composers," with the first concert premiering the works of three regional composers.
Lorie Scott, Duluth, holds a doctorate in flute performance from the University of North Texas and is establishing her career as a flute performer, scholar and educator. She has produced an edition of Sigfrid Karg-Elert's Thirty Caprices for Solo Flute and has received an acceptance from Sir James Galway to perform these works from this edition at his summer 2009 Flute School in Weggis, Switzerland. Ms. Scott will perform in Switzerland, has performed in Minnesota and Texas and produced several recordings.