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Art Project Grants - awarded March 20, 2008

Great River String Ensemble - Aitkin ($2,700) The Great River String Ensemble will use this grant to produce two concerts on May 3rd and 4th featuring the music of the Skal Klubben Spelmanslag (a Scandinavian fiddle group) together with the Great River String Ensemble (a classical string group) featuring two original compositions written especially for these diverse groups.

UMD Department of Theatre - Duluth ($3,900) The UMD Department of Theatre will use this grant to present a public workshop from May 19 to 24, 2008, by Jennifer Tipton and Dana Reitz that will investigate different aspects of the relationship between light and movement in the art forms of theatre and dance.

WTIP North Shore Community Radio - Grand Marais ($3,400) WTIP North Shore Community Radio will use this grant to produce three, one-hour radio specials titled “A Thread of Jazz Up North,” by local jazz pianist Chris Gillis.

The County Seat Theater Company - Cloquet ($4,000) The County Seat Theater Company will use this grant to offer two Children’s Theater Camps to children, six years and older, with the purpose of enhancing their lives through the experience of musical theater, June 16 to 21 and June 23 to 28, 2008.

Two Harbors Folk Festival - Two Harbors ($4,000) The Two Harbors Folk Festival will use this grant to assist in presenting Monroe Crossing, Michael Monroe, Chance, McInnis’ Kitchen, and Nordic Angst in concert at their annual folk festival held July 18 to 20, 2008.

North Shore Music Association - Grand Marais ($2,600) The North Shore Music Association will use this grant to present a concert and workshops by contemporary and traditional world music group Six around One on July 12, 2008.

Duluth Festival Opera - Duluth ($4,000) The Duluth Festival Opera will use this grant to produce a fully-staged production of Verdi’s La Traviata at the DECC on June 26 and June 28, 2008.

Itasca Orchestral Society - Grand Rapids ($2,980) The Itasca Orchestral Society will use this grant to support a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C Major for Violin, Cello and Piano by the Itasca Symphony Orchestra with guest artists Betsy Husby, Alexander Chernyshev and Steve Highland on May 17, 2008.

Jaques Art Center - Aitkin ($1,140) The Jaques Art Center will use this grant to offer two cartooning classes and one claymation class taught by Angie and Duane Barnhart for children and adults from July 8 to12, 2008, followed by a public reception and exhibition honoring the participants and faculty.

Arrowhead Chorale - Duluth ($3,775) The Arrowhead Chorale will use this grant to produce their spring concert series, “Voices in Fresh Combinations: Dancers, Women’s Poets and a Premier” on May 8 and May 10, 2008, which will incorporate dance and music and premier a new a cappella work written especially for the Arrowhead Chorale.

The College of St. Scholastica - Duluth ($3,700) The College of St. Scholastica will use this grant to present a concert by the London quartet Cantabile, an a cappella group which blends high-quality vocal performances with improvisational humor, on November 8, 2008.

Northern Printmaker Alliance - Duluth ($4,000) The Northern Printmaker Alliance will use this grant to present an exhibition of the lithographs of internationally known artist, Gendron Jensen, at the Northern Prints Gallery in Duluth.

Northern Lights Music Festival - Aurora ($4,000) The Northern Lights Music Festival will use this grant to produce five professional concerts with the Northern Lights Chamber Players in three cities as part of the 18-day festival from June 29 to July 17, 2008.

MacRostie Art Center - Grand Rapids ($2,500) The MacRostie Art Center will use this grant to produce its 16th Annual Juried Exhibition in August, 2008, open to artists living in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota.

Bearded Child Film Festival - Grand Rapids ($4,000) The Bearded Child Film Festival will use this grant to produce a film and multimedia event in Minneapolis from July 28 to August 1 and in Grand Rapids from August 8 to 9, 2008.

Backus Community Center - International Falls ($2,590) The Backus Community Center will use this grant to conduct a six-day summer arts program for area youth in collaboration with the Northland Art Society from June 16 to 21, 2008.

Common Language - Duluth ($2,450) Common Language will use this grant to conduct the 7th North Shore Iron Pour Iron Casting Seminar from June 6 to 15, 2008, and to organize an exhibition at Lizzard’s Gallery in Duluth in the Fall of 2008.

Administrative Support Grants - awarded January 18, 2008

County Seat Theatre Company - Cloquet ($4,000) The County Seat Theater Company will use this grant to assist in the installation of a fully ADA Accessible unisex restroom in the new County Seat Theater Performing Arts Center in Cloquet.

Lake Superior Community Theatre - Silver Bay ($3,129) Lake Superior Community Theatre will use this grant to assist in the purchase of portable wireless microphones and public address system to be used in their productions at the William Kelley High School Auditorium.

Arrowhead Chorale - Duluth ($2,871) Arrowhead Chorale will use this grant to contract with a professional audio technician to retrieve, edit and create an organized library of quality archival concert recordings and to train a person for a newly created audio technician position for the Chorale to maintain recording equipment, record and edit concert recordings and maintain the archival concert recording library.

Northern Lights Music Festival - Aurora ($4,000) Northern Lights Music Festival will use this grant to hire a Managing Director who will assist tuition-paying students, assist in producing concerts in a professional manner, assist in continuing to improve marketing, and help support fund raising efforts..

Art Project Grants - awarded September 20, 2007

Matinee Musicale - Duluth ($2,000) Matinee Musicale will use this grant to assist in producing two concerts; one featuring Paul Galbraith, guitarist, on March 24, and one featuring Spencer Myer, pianist, on April 22, as part of their Spring 2008 series.

Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance - Virginia ($4,000) Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance will use this grant to assist in presenting a series of visual art exhibits featuring regional artists Teresa McCue, Gareth Andrews and Margaret Whiting along with four others, at their First Stage Gallery.

Renegade Comedy Theatre - Duluth ($4,000) Renegade Comedy Theatre will use this grant to assist in staging the thought provoking comedy The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick on October 18 - 27, 2007, at their new performance space in Downtown Duluth.

Northshore Chamber Society - Two Harbors ($3,200) Northshore Chamber Society will use this grant to assist in presenting a concert performance by Philip Mentor, a Caribbean artist, sharing songs and stories about skin color, nationality, diversity, discipline and stamina on October 28, 2007, at the Duluth Congregational Church.

UMD Department of Art & Design - Duluth ($3,000) The UMD Department of Art & Design will use this grant to assist in presenting the Artist Lecture Series which offers an important regional venue for national, state and regional arts professionals to give public presentations about their art form and career.

Lyric Opera of the North - Duluth ($4,000) Lyric Opera of the North will use this grant to assist in producing three performances of Handel's opera, Semele using period instruments at the Masonic Temple on June 6, 7 and 8, 2008.

McKnight/ARAC Rural and Community Arts Grants - awarded November 15, 2007

Barnum Community Education Community Theater- Barnum ($2,200) Barnum Community Theater will use this grant to assist in producing a one-act play at their Evening of One Acts and Dinner Theater on February 8 and 9, 2008.

Itasca County Agricultural Association - Grand Rapids ($2,200) Itasca County Agricultural Association will use this grant to assist in presenting a variety of ethnic music and dance arts featuring Les Harkonen (German/Scandinavian music), Scoil na Dtri (Irish dance music), and others at the August, 2008, Itasca County Fair in conjunction with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Event.

Northshore Chamber Society - Two Harbors ($2,500) Northshore Chamber Society will use this grant to assist in presenting three chamber concert performances: Pianist Ann Doberstein and Sam Black, February 3, 2008, in Knife River; the Gichigami Trio (Laurie Bastian, Josh Aerie, Sam Black), June 12, 2008, in Silver Bay; and Soprano Janet MacDonald and Sam Black, August 19, 2008, in Two Harbors.

Over The Top Dance Company - Duluth ($2,500) Over The Top Dance Company will use this grant to assist in presenting "Ceremony: Pomp with Circumstance," an evening of dance and mixed art at the Sacred Heart Music Center on February 9, 2008.

Ely Artwalk - Ely ($2,500) Ely Artwalk will use this grant to assist in presenting its annual 10-day art show featuring 600 pieces of art created by over 150 local artists, displayed in over 50 merchant windows in Downtown Ely during the Ely Winter Festival, February 1 through 10, 2008.