2006 Grant Recipient List
Cultural Community Partnership
Number of grants: 20
Dollars awarded: $94,200
Mauricio
Arango, Saint Paul
$5,000; to produce a photographic exhibit in collaboration
with the Resource
Center of the Americas on the experience of immigrants
crossing the Mexican border into the Sonoran Desert of Arizona
Centro
Campesino, Inc., Owatonna
$5,000; Ray Roybal will collaborate with
Centro Campesino and its community members to present a Chicano
art exhibit at the Owatonna Art Center
Elk River Area
Arts Alliance, Elk River
$5,000; Robert Robinson will lead a choral
workshop and an evening performance of African-American gospel
music, in collaboration with the Elk River Area Arts Alliance
Aaron E. Fairbanks, Cass Lake
$4,800; to create a new series of panoramic photographs depicting
the culture, history, and landscape of life on a reservation,
in collaboration with the Leech
Lake Tribal College
Christopher E. Harrison, Minneapolis
$5,000; to paint the Webber Park footbridge and create a community
event involving the local Camden neighborhood and the Northside
Art Collective in North Minneapolis
International Friendship Through the Performing Arts,
Burnsville
$5,000; to collaborate with artist Bun Loeung
to arrange and perform endangered traditional Cambodian pieces
in an authentic style
The
Juno Collective, Saint Paul
$5,000; Teens Rock the MIC will collaborate with local spoken
word artist Ashley Gilbert to produce a one-hour
performance that will tour around Minnesota
Muhammad M. Kahar, Minneapolis
$5,000; to create an installation and performance with In
the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
and its artistic community relating to his experience as an
asylum seeker
Kaori Kenmotsu, Saint Paul
$3,500; to work with Jennifer Weir to create
and perform a new work that will explore the connecting spirit
between modern dance and taiko drumming, and challenge the
personal connection between art and cultural identity
La Escuelita,
Minneapolis
$4,900; Lorena Duarte and La
Escuelita will work with Latin teens to introduce
them to the world of poetry, spoken word, storytelling, and
dramatic performances
Karl W. Lorenz, Minneapolis
$5,000; to collaborate with the White
Earth Tribal Council to create a public art billboard
project on the White Earth Reservation that will honor traditional
wild rice practices and raise awareness of genomic research
on wild rice
Koffi Mbairamadji, Minneapolis
$5,000; to collaborate with Blandine Wolesse
to create visual art focused around African daily life
Arteria, Minneapolis
$5,000; to collaborate with Eliezer Santos
to present a Latin carnival in the Lake Street area of south
Minneapolis in the spring of 2006
Juliana
A. Pegues, Minneapolis
$5,000; Pegues and Tatiana
Ormaza will work with mentor David Mura on refining
their own writing skills, then facilitate a workshop for young
Asian-American and Latina women
Deborah
Ramos, Saint Paul
$1,400; to collaborate with Ayme Almendarez
to share their interest in ancestral Mexican traditions, and
research and create a traditional accordion book as the basis
for a series of children’s books
Mona
Smith, Minneapolis
$5,000; to create a multimedia installation called “City
Indian” in the Ancient Trader’s Gallery space
at the American Indian
Neighborhood Development Corporation
Soo Visual Art Center,
Minneapolis
$4,600; Andrea
Carlson will create a series of paintings that
portray her Native American heritage through history and myth,
and participate in a public discussion of her work at Soo
Visual Arts Center
SteppingStone
Theatre for Youth Development, Saint Paul
$5,000; Aditi Brennan Kapil will write, and
SteppingStone Theatre will produce, The Adventures
of Hanuman, King of the Monkeys! a Bollywood style musical
Sai
Ntxhais Vang, Minneapolis
$5,000; to photograph high school students of color in Minnesota’s
public schools in collaboration with the Minnesota
Immigrant Freedom Network
Judith M. Wyatt, Golden Valley
$5,000; to collaborate with Sentir Venezolano
to teach and present Venezuelan culture and dance at Chicanos
Latinos Unidos En Servico (CLUES) and at the Festival of Nations
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