FY 2005 Grantees
Arts In Education
School Support
Bancroft
Elementary, Minneapolis
$12,500; Ruth
MacKenzie, Joan Griffith, and Mary
Jo Pauly will conduct a residency to support reading achievement
through stories that are played, sung, and written
Cedar Park
Elementary School, Apple Valley
$6,500; visual artist Marcia
McEachron and poet John Caddy will conduct a residency
for elementary students focusing on the art of seeing with
the senses
Centerpoint
Elementary, White Bear Lake
$3,800; artist Rhonda
Lund will conduct a residency focusing on creative storytelling
and mask making, connecting with students' backgrounds and
history
Columbus
Elementary,
Forest Lake
$4,543; Maria
Olofsdotter will conduct an interdisciplinary residency
revolving around poetry as a creative art form in combination
with visual arts disciplines
Ely
Public Schools, Ely
$1,567; musician Michael
Monroe will work with students to create a song representative
of the Ely area
Excell Academy
for Higher Learning, Brooklyn Park
$3,840; Margot Galt
and T. Mychael Rambo
will conduct residencies in literary and theater arts; Galt
will examine the multicultural exchanges between Native Americans
and African Americans; Rambo will focus on the elements of
theater
Harriet
Bishop Elementary, Savage
$4,143; dancer Ranee
Ramaswamy will conduct a residency focused on the culture,
dance, rhythm, and movement of India
J.
J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, Saint Paul
$2,750; Susan Armington will conduct a visual art residency
using painting, sculpture, and collage to help students create
objects to tell stories
Kenny Community
School, Minneapolis
$6,250; artist Margo
McCreary will work on self-expression and communication
of ideas in nature through creative puppetry
Lake
Country School, Minneapolis
$2,500; Media Mike
Hazard will work with students to create a video exploring
life lessons of the late Paul Wellstone called The Magic Green
School Bus
Lake Harriet
Community School, Minneapolis
$3,157; artist and educator Bart
Buch will conduct a theater and puppetry arts residency
that will allow students to experience creating and performing,
as well as reacting to a performance
Linwood
A+ Elementary, Saint Paul
$5,450; artists Meredith
Holt, Ross Sutter,
Mick LaBriola,
and T. Mychael Rambo
will conduct residencies focusing on the many cultures present
in our schools
Minnesota
Association of Charter Schools, Saint Paul
$22,000; artists Ta-Coumba Aiken and Larry
Long will work with four charter schools to identify,
honor, and artistically represent their communities through
music and a mural
Montevideo
Public Schools, Montevideo
$3,350; poet Florence
Dacey will lead a poetry residency for five core groups
on the theme "Beginnings and Endings" at Sanford
and Ramsey elementary schools
Northrop
Urban Environmental Learning Center, Minneapolis
$3,314; artist John
Acosta will guide students in the creation of murals based
on themes from their science units
Park
Spanish Immersion School, Saint Louis Park
$7,000; visual artist Maria
Olofsdotter, musician Leo
Lara, and ceramic tile muralist Susan
Warner will conduct residencies that focus on Afro-Latino
music/visual art
Powderhorn
Community School, Minneapolis
$4,700; Maria
Olofsdotter and T.
Mychael Rambo will conduct a residency focused on literacy
through the arts with ways for students to positively express
themselves
Rochester
Montessori School, Rochester
$3,174; artist Duane
Barnhart will conduct a residency using multiple mediums
to develop basic learning skills and knowledge of the arts
through cartooning
Roosevelt
High School, Minneapolis
$3,375; African dancer and drummer Francis
Kofi will conduct a residency focusing on rhythms of Africa
Sanford
Middle School, Minneapolis
$4,262; Rhonda Lund’s
residency will combine math and language arts curriculums;
artist and teachers will use drama to teach problem solving
for math word problems
Southside
Family School, Minneapolis
$3,400; taiko drummer Sara
Dejoras will instruct children in the culture, history,
and practice of taiko drumming
Stevens
Elementary, Dawson
$11,188; artists Ross
Sutter, Margot Galt,
Perrin Boyd, Meredith
Holt, and Linda Moraal will conduct residencies focused
on the theme of immigration
Webster
Magnet Elementary, Saint Paul
$8,000; artist Sowah Mensah will collaborate with staff members
Diane Sollenbeyer and Diane Match to create a comprehensive
African program
Zachary
Lane Elementary School, Plymouth
$3,150; artist Barry
Kleider will guide students and teachers through an exploration
of images and photography
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