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2004 Grant Recipient List

Arts In Education

K-12 Arts Challenge Minnesota

La Crescent-Hokah Middle School, La Crescent
$2,500; Linda Moraal will conduct a residency in ceramics that links to an existing interdisciplinary project

Mille Lacs Academy, Onamia
$2,489; visual artist Craig David will introduce mosaic environmental design to students during a five-day residency

Nisswa Elementary, Nisswa
$2,208; John Minczeski will launch "Power Word Poetry Production with Live Poets”

Park Rapids Public Schools, Park Rapids
$2,013; writer Margot Fortunato Galt will conduct a week-long residency focusing on writing poetry

Pearson Elementary, Wheaton
$2,500; Kim Bovee will conduct a residency focused on three drawing techniques for processing visual information

Prairie Wind Middle School, Perham
$2,500; Larry Long will conduct an "Elder's Wisdom, Children's Song" a program with songs co-written by students, based on oral histories of women in war and peace

Royalton Elementary, Royalton
$1,661; Perrin Boyd will conduct a residency with third grade students using elements of theater, comedy, and physical expression through the ancient art of clowning.

Schoolcraft Learning Community, Bemidji
$2,500; visual artist Pat Black and musician Mike LaBriola will conduct a residency focused on the common vocabulary of music and visual art to create original books

Twin Bluff Middle School, Red Wing
$1,782; writer Margot Galt will conduct a poetry residency focusing on the Holocaust and women's history

Organizational Support

American National Ballet, Duluth
$2,765

ArtStart, Minneapolis
$2,555

COMPAS, Saint Paul
$27,250

Galumph Performance Troupe, Minneapolis
$1,700

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis
$4,260

Illusion Theater and School, Minneapolis
$7,665

In Progress, Saint Paul
$17,030

Intermedia Arts Minnesota, Minneapolis
$2,555

MacPhail Center for the Arts, Minneapolis
$3,575

The Minnesota Opera Company, Minneapolis
$4,260

Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis
$6,640

SASE: The Write Place, Minneapolis
$5,960

Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins
$3,705

The SteppingStone Theatre, Saint Paul
$6,810

Young Audiences of Minnesota, Saint Paul
$14,475

Zenon Dance Company and School, Minneapolis
$11,920

School Support

Avalon School, Saint Paul
$3,250; photographer Barry Kleider will conduct a residency focused on documentary and abstract photography

Bancroft Elementary, Minneapolis
$10,400; residency with Ross Sutter, Leo Lara, and Joan Griffith to explore the concept of "sequence" in folk songs, rhythms, dances, and musical instruments

Burroughs Community School, Minneapolis
$8,000; Linda Moraal and Marie Olofsdotter will conduct residencies in clay, puppetry, mask making, and performance arts

Byron Middle School, Byron
$3,500; musician Ross Sutter will conduct a residency focused on music as an expression of culture

Centerpoint Elementary, White Bear Lake
$2,869; musician Leo Lara will conduct a residency focusing on cultural expressions of different peoples, include Latin American folkloric instruments

Columbus Elementary, Forest Lake
$4,434; visual artist Mary Jo Pauly will conduct a residency focused on the interdisciplinary experience and processes of bookmaking as art

J. J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, Saint Paul
$2,600; actor Buffy Sedlachek will help students learn improvisation, visualization, and other drama techniques to enrich the Montessori curriculum

Peter Hobart Primary Center, Saint Louis Park
$3,893; Rhonda Lund will help students make masks, invent stories, and act them out

J. A. Hughes Elementary, Red Lake Falls
$2,100; Perrin Boyd presents creative clowning for elementary students during a theater residency that will focus on the artistic process of self-discovery

Kelliher Public Schools, Kelliher
$3,045; visual artist Susan Warner will help K-12 students complete a clay tile mural they began in 2002

Kenny Community School, Minneapolis
$9,883; self-expression/communication residency with Sheila O'Connor, Danielle Daniel, Ross Sutter, Leo Lara, Margo McCreary, and Denise Walker

Linwood A+ Elementary, Saint Paul
$6,800; composer Raymond Berg to work with students to create a plot, compose songs, design sets, audition for, rehearse, and perform original pieces of music theater

Marcy Open School, Minneapolis
$7,570; using the Mississippi as a theme, George Griffiths and Judy Gallas will lead students to explore light and color from artistic and scientific perspectives

William E. McGee Institute of Technology, Saint Paul
$2,700; Rogger Cumming will conduct a residency exploring pop culture through concepts of visual art and poetry enabling students to develop their own creative skills

Minnesota Association of Charter Schools, Saint Paul
$15,500; painter Ta-Coumba Aiken, musicians Leo Lara and Larry Long will conduct coordinated residencies in seven charter schools titled, “Defining Community thru Art”

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, Faribault
$2,718; Perrin Boyd will conduct a clowning residency for blind/visually impaired learners and content area grades 7-12 teachers

New City School, Minneapolis
$3,750; Usry Alleyne will conduct a residency focused on drawing, portrait painting, and video documentation to help welcome and connect students and the community in the school’s first year

Park Spanish Immersion School, Saint Louis Park
$7,350; Mask maker Marie Olofsdotter, tile maker Susan Warner, and musician Leo Lara will conduct a residency with an interdisciplinary focus on ethnic art and artifacts

Powder horn Community School, Minneapolis
$2,180; Marilyn Lindstrom will conduct a residency focused on building community through tile mosaic work

Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis
$3,554; dancer Francis Kofi will conduct a residency, focused on movement and sound, with ninth graders

Sanford Middle School, Minneapolis
$3,850; theater artist Rhonda Lund will dramatize math story problems and create short stories using improvisation

Sheridan Global Arts and Communications School, Minneapolis
$8,200; Francis Kofi, Felicia Adeti, Marie Olofsdotter, Sayer Frey, Mankwe Ndosi, Susan Boeckmann, and Edwin Beylerian will conduct a residency called, “Literacy through the Arts”

Southside Family School, Minneapolis
$3,500; Sara Dejoras will instruct children in the culture, history, and practice of Taiko drumming

Zachary Lane Elementary School, Plymouth
$1,477; Christopher Yeager will combine dance and theater as a way for students to experience history through movement while exploring cultural traditions

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