Past
Grantees

Communications Director for the Minnesota Composers Forum, independent media specialist, music producer, musician and educator Karen R. Nelson received $4,000 toward travel and study in Recife, Pernambuco; Salvador, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her trip will focus on the examination of Brazilian music and culture. She'll study music and teaching techniques and make contacts for productions, tours and workshops. She hopes to gain a greater personal and professional understanding of how Brazilians learn and perpetuate an unequaled diversity of music

Writer Cheryl Nyland-Littig received $2,000 to spend a month in Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado. Nyland-Littig will visit three nuclear test sites to research and reflect on the affects of nuclear radiation on a cultural and personal level. She is working on a collection of stories exploring the life and death of a women against the political, social and ecological realities of the nuclear age.