Kayla Farrish, Spectacle, BAAD!/Pepatián Dance Your Future, 2018.
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inCombined Artistic Fields
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inDance
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inFilm and Video
195
inFilm/Video & New Media
301
inLiterature
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inMulti-disciplinary
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inMusic
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inTechnology Centered Arts
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inTheater
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inVisual Arts, Multi-disciplinary
Stanley J. Shetka
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,000
Artist STAN SHETKA, of Webster, was awarded a grant to travel to the Seychelles Islands, the Czech Republic and Africa. He will promote two of his ongoing projects: Paper Futures and the World Art Project. The idea behind the World Art Project is to collect a material substance from every individual in the world for inclusion in a 160 acre project site located in Rice County. Paper Futures is a project which began as a kinetic work of art that ate waste paper and turned it into solid bricks. Shetka has patented the process, and is setting up Paper Futures projects throughout the country.
Visual Arts
Aaron Spangler
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,000
Artist AARON SPANGLER, of Park Rapids, will travel throughout Central Canada investigating rural experiences. His work focuses on the friction between rural living erroneously portrayed as homogenous and narrow-minded and his reality of the unique and creative nature of rural communities.
Visual Arts
Sandra Spieler and Beth Peterson
1997
Theater
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
SANDY SPIELER, Artistic Director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater, and BETH PETERSON, the companys Associate Artistic Director, will travel to Germany and Ireland to research early European spiritual leaders, Pagan and Christian mythics and witch burning sites. They will center their investigation on St. Bridget and Hildegard of Bingen. This research will culminate in the creation of an experimental theater piece titled Illuminating Fire.
Theater
Laura Stack
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,085
LAURA STACK, an artist from St. Peter, was awarded funding to travel to New York City. She has appointments with gallery owners and alternative space directors, and will pursue exhibitions of her work. She will also spend time seeing art in museums, galleries and alternative spaces.
Visual Arts
Barton Sutter
1997
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,000
BARTON SUTTER, a writer and teacher from Duluth, received funding to spend three weeks in Sweden to develop relationships with Swedish writers and publishers. He will present public readings of his work and explore his familys history, gathering material for poems and essays.
Literature
Thom Tammaro
1997
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,045
Writer THOM TAMMARO, of Moorhead, was awarded a grant to travel to his ancestral village of Sepino, Italy where he will explore the life and landscape of four grandparents in order to continue documenting in poetry and nonfiction their immigrant journey.
Literature
James Tanner
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,600
JAMES TANNER, a ceramic artist and professor from Janesville, was awarded a grant to travel to Rome and Greece. He will study various ceramic artifacts and architectural ruins, paying attention to the disintegration, age, natural finish and forms that the sites provide.
Visual Arts
Roger Thundershield
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,719
Artist ROGER THUNDERSHIELD, of Watkins, will travel throughout Wyoming, Colorado and Montana studying museum collections and photographic archives of Plains Indian art of the 19th Century. The investigation will contribute to his own artwork, which is informed by the traditional to the Lakota Nation of American Indians.
Visual Arts
Hedwidge M. Tripp
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
HEDWIDGE TRIPP, Artistic Director of Full House Dance Company in St. Cloud, received funding to travel to Huta Ginjang, North Sumatra, Indonesia. She will experience and study the traditional dances of the Toba Batak in the village of Huta Ginjang
Dance
JoAnn Verburg
1997
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$949
Artist JOANN VERBURG was awarded a grant to travel to Italy to collaborate with New York City-based performance artist Ping Chong. The two first collaborated more than ten years ago when Chong invited Verburg to photograph his dancers and actors. At the Bellagio Center in Italy, Verburg will be able to spend a sustained period of time with Chong in order to develop ideas that they have discussed for many years.
Visual Arts
Maryann N. Weidt
1997
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,475
Writer MARYANN WEIDT, from Duluth, will spend a week in Taos, New Mexico, participating in a writing workshop titled "Walking and Memory" with Natalie Goldberg. Weidt creates picture book stories for young children.
Literature
Cathy Young
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,300
Choreographer CATHY YOUNG received funding to travel to New York City to spend ten days in intensive yoga study with Susan Braham. In addition to being a yoga master, Braham is a dancer and choreographer who understands the particular needs of dancers.
Dance
Judith Yourman
1997
Film/Video & New Media
Minnesota
Travel and Study
Videographer and installation artist JUDITH YOURMAN was awarded funding to travel to Lithuania for four weeks to complete a video installation concerning family history, memory and the Holocaust.
Film/Video & New Media
Chris Aiken
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,800
Dancer, choreographer and teacher CHRIS AIKEN received subsidy to travel to a Danceabilitly Conference and to the Breitenbush Contact Jam in Oregon, in order to connect with other artists doing integrated dance work and practicing improvisation. The Danceability Conference is being presented by Joint Forces Dance Company in Eugene, Oregon. The Conference gathers disabled and non-disabled dancers from across North America and Europe.
Dance
Julieta Alvarado
1996
Music
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,000
Harpsichordist and organist JULIETA ALVARADO will travel to Bolivia and Mexico to research analyze and study for performance two extant Colonial keyboard music collections in Latin American from the 17th and 18th Centuries. The work will be done at the Musical Archives in Chiquitos, Bolivia, and the Mexico City Cathedral Archives in Mexico.
Music
Julie Bartholdi
1996
Theater
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,000
Theater educator and artist JULIE BARTHOLDI will spend ten days in Manhattan investigating theater in education in workshops and sessions within the Summerfest International Theater and Education Festival, the National Conference of the American Alliance for Theater and Education and the Association for Theater and Higher Education
Theater
Sonya Berlovitz
1996
Theater
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$869
Costume Designer SONJA BERLOVITZ will attend a workshop at the Split Rock Arts Program in Duluth studying fabric printing techniques, specifically the Japanese technique of Nassen with instructor Akemi Nakano Cohn, in preparation for future costume designing projects
Theater
Djola Branner
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,145
Artist DJOLA BERNARD BRANNER received a grant to study secular and sacred Haitian dance in Haiti. Branner will begin his studies at the Haitian-American School of Contemporary Ballet in Del Mas and will also attend the Rara Festival.
Dance
Suzanne Bunkers
1996
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,935
SUZANNE BUNKERS, a teacher and writer, will travel to Luxembourg to study religious and cultural artifacts and traditions for use in a new work of creative nonfiction titled Susanna and Me. Bunkers will explore the ways in which religious images, symbols, traditions and aspects of material culture have been and continue to be an important part of the metaculture of Luxembourg. She will examine ways in which this metaculture has imprinted itself on her, a fifth generation descendant.
Literature
Mary Ellen Childs
1996
Music
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,800
Composer MARY ELLEN CHILDS will travel to the San Francisco Bay Area to meet rock drummer Bill Bruford and his group King Crimson, attend their concert and explore the possibilities of writing a new composition for them. She will also meet with composers, musicians, musical groups and curators of performance venues in the Bay Area regarding future projects.