Creative Individuals is designed to help individual artists and culture bearers develop or sustain their creative practices and meaningfully engage with Minnesotans. Grantees may use funds to support their creative practice and meaningfully connect to and engage with audiences, participants, students, and/or communities during the grant period.
| Grantee, City |
Grant Amount |
H. Lynn Adelsman, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Adelsman will work to improve writing skills through editorial and research assistance, workshops, and writing retreat time and will offer two works in progress presentations engaging Minnesotans on past use of chemical weed control in infrastructure. |
Cris Anderson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Anderson will explore healing possibilities of participatory theater engagement with folktales, from which a video documentary short is produced and shared with older adults, people with disabilities, and their intergenerational communities. |
Ark, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Ark will develop skills in fiber, sewing, and woodworking to create and exhibit a body of work and curate an artist talk that will open dialogue about the effects of mental health for POC artists. |
Carrie H. Arnold, Rochester | $ 9,500 | | Arnold will finish and display a collection of paintings based on southeast Minnesota grown produce and cultural textiles related to the growers. |
Shari Aronson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Aronson will research and write a solo show inspired by Jewish folktales of a town of fools. The development will include consulting Jewish theater and folklore experts and leading story circles about foolishness for older adults in Minneapolis. |
Heidi L. Bacon, Red Wing | $ 10,000 | | Bacon will develop her portraiture skills and engage Minnesotans in her "Retrospective of a Deeper Soul" project, offering participants an opportunity to view portraits and ponder what lies within. |
Alyssa E. Baguss, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Baguss will create "Face to Face", an interactive public art experiment addressing climate change resiliency that leads participants through face to face conversation while relaxing aboard double facing garden swings. |
Elizabeth S. Barrett, Red Lake | $ 6,025 | | Barrett will sew ribbon clothing and regalia to develop her artistic skills and deepen connections with Indigenous communities in Minnesota. |
Chandreyee Basu Thakur, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Basu Thakur will dance to the seven Carnatic musical notes, by associating each note with an animal. Each animal presents a distinct sound, movement, and emotion. Captivating movements are the basis of Basu Thakur's Indian classical dance performances. |
Robin M. Becker, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Becker will draft a new autobiographical novel, Town Lake. |
Julie Berg-Linville, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Berg-Linville will offer a community clay workshop, with affordable and accessible pottery classes that focus on thoughtfully engaging the public in an inclusive and creative space. |
Martha Bird, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Bird will apprentice with a master basketmaker to learn the Nordic knutkorgar (knot basket). Its history parallels her own. She will exhibit her work and talk at the Duluth Nordic Center and teach a class at the Duluth Public Library. |
Craig Blacklock, Moose Lake | $ 8,757 | | Blacklock will work with underserved public school students in rural, northeast Minnesota, inspiring them to develop the skills necessary to produce expressive, experimental art. |
Allison Blevins, Dayton | $ 10,000 | | Allison Blevins will give readings and workshops on how to use creative writing to better understand STEM topics, and she will also complete her collection of essays that use cosmology, astronomy, and physics to investigate the body. |
Seth Bockley, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Bockley will develop a multidisciplinary art project responding to Glenn Gould's 1967 radio piece "The Idea Of North". |
Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Bodnarchuk will deepen her cultural and artistic practice by researching Saris dances from eastern Slovakia to learn how to use their rhythmic structure, self percussion, and spatial patterning in her work. |
Archie Bongiovanni, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Bongiovanni will expand their artistic skills by taking painting and screen printing classes and develop a solo exhibition called New Relationship Energy, where they will translate comics into large form art pieces. |
Melissa Borman, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Borman will complete and exhibit a new project, "Deep Breath" and redesign her website. |
Darcy Brambrink, Laporte | $ 9,580 | | Brambrink will conduct painting workshops including the mediums of watercolor and oil. |
Rachel B. Breen, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Breen will complete a series of textile collages and sashes made from used clothing and plan how to activate them in public spaces. She will also organize sash making workshops to educate about climate change and labor rights. |
Eric Broker, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Broker will perform a recital spotlighting queer composers and create and distribute an accompanying zine, all with the overarching goal of celebrating the joy, wisdom, and rich traditions embodied by queer elders. |
Gregory Brosofske, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Brosofske will produce STRANGE HEART, his musical theater piece about the life, times. and struggles of Minnesotan poet John Berryman, for a four-week run at the Open Eye Theatre in Minneapolis. |
Cassandra R. Buck, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Buck will collaboratively create neighborhood murals with underserved communities in Rochester. |
Bullet Bob, Askov | $ 10,000 | | Bullet Bob will acquire more knowledge to record and mix music to industry standards in the studio setting to best serve fellow musicians. |
Jeanne E. Calvit, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Calvit will advance her development as a writer, deepening a creative practice that paralleled her long career as a theater artist, to fulfill her vision to share stories of the extraordinary artists with disabilities with whom she has worked. |
Livingstone Carver, Lanesboro | $ 10,000 | | Carver will explore the use of epoxy resin to push past the traditional and physical limits of what art can be created in stone; this work will culminate in a public reception, exhibition, and artist talk in December 2025. |
Julie E. Censullo, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Censullo will collaborate with and direct Minnesota writers and actors to devise an upcoming season of an original anthology audio drama podcast. |
Sophia Chai, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Chai will present a new body of work at Griot Arts in Rochester and facilitate a gathering around the language of abstraction through the lens of American artists of color. |
Maitzeng Chang, Saint Paul | $ 9,974 | | Chang will interview Hmong elders and develop a script based on lived experiences from survivors of the Vietnam War. |
Linda N. Chatterton, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Chatterton will record a flute and guitar album of music by Latinx composers and distribute this music to communities throughout Minnesota. |
Wen-Li Chen, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Chen will distribute and produce bilingual, sequential art combining text and images to share information of anti-racism/bias, based on collective experience, research, and studies toward the BIPOC community before/during/after years of becoming a newcomer. |
Lum N. Chi, Andover | $ 9,300 | | Lum will revise a new young adult book in preparation for publication. She'll read excerpts from her book to BIPOC youth, discuss her writing process in public artist talks, plan workshops and open mics, and share writing opportunities. |
Mary Ellen Childs, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Childs will install her multimedia work "North", celebrating wintry climates, in MSP Airport's B Tunnel digital gallery, reaching thousands of outstate Minnesota travelers. |
Zach Christensen, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Christensen will direct Henry V using modern theater techniques to engage and educate audiences on the history of Shakespeare and Henry V. |
Angie Clark, Bemidji | $ 10,000 | | Clark will engage Minnesotans in her creative writing practice at the 2025 Be Active Expo during the Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon. |
Elliot Clausen, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Clausen will combine his practices of painting, drawing, and writing into a multimedia performance piece about his experiences as a trans man and the mental health effects of living in a transphobic culture. |
John A. Colburn, Saint Paul | $ 8,350 | | Colburn will research the history of Dodge County and write nonfiction based on this research. The author will work closely with the Dodge County Historical Society and make the writing available to the public in an open house setting. |
Kristin N. Collier, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Collier, a nonfiction writer, will complete a draft of her book What Debt Demands. She will also host a multigenre reading in the Twin Cities and facilitate a virtual writing workshop, both of which will center on experiences with indebtedness. |
Amelia L. Colwell, Roseville | $ 10,000 | | Colwell will revise her memoir manuscript and test passages through a series of public readings. She will explore speculative memoir and genre blending through poetry, micro nonfiction, and fairy tale forms mixed with memoir. |
Kelly A. Connole, Northfield | $ 9,718 | | Connole will foster connections among ceramic artists in southeast Minnesota and beyond by offering workshops in their home communities and by hosting events in an improved studio space. |
Basil K. Considine, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Considine will create a song cycle exploring the shifting Chinese-American experience in Minnesota, for performance at three local Asian Pacific Islander service organizations and recording for submission to a planned U. S.-China Forum on the arts and culture. |
John Michael Cook, Hibbing | $ 10,000 | | Cook will write and illustrate the companion pieces to the "Hill of Three Waters" mural, currently located at the Minnesota North College - Hibbing campus. |
Nancy L. Cook, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Cook will write a collection of hybrid stories on the theme of intertwined roots, combining history, fiction, and memoir, and will host four to six intertwined roots events at different north Minneapolis locations. |
Clare Cooley, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Cooley will complete her second art book and create an online multimedia curriculum on how to promote art and writing with livestream videos to give voice to older adults in Minnesota. She'll also do live virtual readings of her books. |
Stephanie M. Cox, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Cox will complete a graphic novel about a Black, New Orleans madam, presenting the book and an exhibition of artifacts at the Northfield Arts Guild. She will also create a meetup for cartoonists of all ages in Northfield. |
Starrla G. Cray, Winsted | $ 10,000 | | Cray will work with a mentor to seek publication for her Minnesota based mystery novel, draft her second book in the series, and teach a writing workshop for senior citizens. |
Serenity Crego, Hibbing | $ 10,000 | | Crego will create seven oil paintings of self portraiture and host a public exhibition to reveal the new paintings. |
Mo Darwish, Lakeville | $ 10,000 | | Darwish will create an immersive art installation experience that will conceptually discuss struggles of being a dislocated immigrant in this day and age's sociopolitical structures. |
Craig A. David, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | David's Arboreous Tree Keepers project will be a collaborative, interactive art experience, that includes an exhibition with mixed-media artworks-photos and stories, a catalog, and a public forum. |
Susan Davies, Buffalo | $ 10,000 | | Davies will develop her intuitive forest paintings, engaging underserved residents of rural communities in interactive, nature immersed workshops at three venues in greater Minnesota, where the work will be publicly exhibited. |
Taylan De Johnette, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | De Johnette will grow as an artist by producing new work and generating visibility and recognition for her work by offering free branding, marketing, and design educational services to aid three small BIPOC businesses in strategically maximizing their visibility, competitiveness, and audience reach. |
Jacob T. Docksey, Saint Paul | $ 7,650 | | Docksey will create an art exhibition and animation about Minnesota cave systems through direct research and documentation of local subterranean spaces, culminating in a public exhibition. |
Aria Dominguez, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Dominguez will work on completing the manuscript of their lyric essay collection. They will also offer two free workshops to participants living with chronic physical or mental health issues and their caregivers. |
Darius Dotch, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Dotch will create an original hip-hop play connecting his personal experiences with law enforcement, with others' in Minnesota's Black community. |
Eric J. Dregni, Minneapolis | $ 9,250 | | Dregni will prepare and present from his books (For the Love of Cod, You're Sending Me Where?, and the forthcoming Raising Bilingual Bambini) across Minnesota at libraries, bookstores, clubs, and lodges. |
Tom F. Driscoll, Winona | $ 10,000 | | Driscoll will transcribe handwritten journals, kept for eight years as a left ventricular assist device and heart transplant patient at Mayo Clinic, into a poetry manuscript. He will edit, prepare galleys and cover, and publish under the title of Dying Man Suite. |
Sean D. Egan, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Egan will record an album of West African and Irish fusion music with members of the group Cumar, and present it to Minnesota audiences through online distribution services; public, community, and college radio stations; and public libraries. |
Katharine Eksuzian, Victoria | $ 10,000 | | Eksuzian will create new ceramics and engage Minnesotans through a mutually beneficial nature and art exhibition. She will conduct in-depth subject research, purchase essential materials, and maintain her ceramic practice. |
Michelle Elliott, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Elliott will continue the development of the full-length musical, Country Radio, offering public readings of the work in progress. |
Kurt R. Engh, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Engh will engage queer artists, audiences, and organizations with the second production of his original full-length play, Only Ugly Guys, over twenty public performances and one filmed performance during June 2025 (Pride Month). |
Kyle Ensrude, Becker | $ 10,000 | | Ensrude will produce a short narrative film to be showcased at film festivals and public screenings throughout Minnesota. |
Anne-Marie Erickson, Grand Rapids | $ 9,985 | | Erickson will publish her memoir in essays, Love in the Time of Dementia, and offer public presentations to give Minnesota readers/audiences a deeper understanding of and empathy for persons with dementia. |
Victoria Erickson, Eden Prairie | $ 10,000 |
| Erickson will present her chamber opera, The Miller's Daughter, which expands upon Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, with music by Jodi Goble. Offering a feminist lens, it revitalizes Schubert's work for modern audiences. |
Gregory L. Euclide, Le Sueur | $ 10,000 | | Through the development of a new website and workshops, Euclide will increase accessibility of his visual arts content to Minnesotans. |
Timothy M. Evans, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Evans will expand his photography project "Fairgrounds", which celebrates the joy, juxtapositions, kitsch spectacle, and unique diversity that make Minnesota state and county fairs distinct cultural spaces. |
Marjorie A. Fedyszyn, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Fedyszyn will present a large-scale fiber installation and artist talk on art as healing that will be exhibited at St. Catherine University. She will also lead a workshop on mindful meditative art for students there and older adults at Art of the Lakes in Battle Lake, Minnesota. |
Selma Fernandez Richter, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Fernández Richter will develop her artistic practice with the guidance of a mentor, produce and participate in a group exhibition, and engage audiences through an artist talk. |
Kristi L. Fernholz, Appleton | $ 10,000 | | Fernholz will create a new series of photo encaustic artwork about rural life on the prairie and display it in galleries in western Minnesota. |
Zachary Fittipaldi, Sandstone | $ 10,000 | | Fittipaldi will produce a series of woven willow sculptures in cocreation with students in Pine, Rice, Saint Louis, and Ramsey counties. |
Elizabeth M. Flinsch, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Flinsch will host workshops and choreograph a new work in collaboration with dancers in greater Minnesota titled "Listening to the Land." |
Megan Flød Johnson, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 |
| Flød Johnson will develop a new collage installation work about the transformational process of parenthood, told through a reflective lens of diverse stories collected in interviews with birthing persons in Saint Paul. |
Kelly Foster Lundquist, Monticello | $ 10,000 | | Lundquist will edit, promote, and launch her debut book, Beard: A Memoir (Oct 2025, Eerdmans), in central Minnesota with public readings and writing workshops. |
Alex S. French, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | French will offer a series of creative writing workshops, focusing on actionable techniques and processes, while completing his linked short story collection. |
Catherine R. Friend, Red Wing | $ 10,000 | | Friend will create a book of short nonfiction pieces for readers with early Alzheimer's, so they may continue reading. |
M E Fuller, Montevideo | $ 10,000 | | Fuller will demonstrate how abstraction opens a creative path blocked by social expectations, allowing greater freedom to grow in practice and understanding of the arts, through a public participatory event and journaling her process online. |
Aaron A. Gabriel, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Gabriel will finish recording new songs from their musical Heart Is Broke; hire filmmakers to help film, edit, and create media content; and will distribute the songs and videos on Tunecore so any Minnesotan can have access to it. |
Susan Gangsei, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Gangsei will complete her textile series "Sacred Journey of Aging", completing a book of the images accompanied by a series of artist talks and a public exhibit. |
Frank A. Garcia, Apple Valley | $ 10,000 | | Garcia will prepare, rehearse, and perform original Latin music in live performances at various venues in 2025. Funds will also help establish his artist website and purchase needed sound equipment. |
Marybeth Garmoe, Grand Marais | $ 8,500 | | Garmoe, an artisan broom maker, will focus on incorporating broomcorn into artistic media outside of brooms. Through this process, she will deepen her relationships with the material and create new class content. |
Susanna C. Gaunt, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Gaunt will research, experiment, and share knowledge about using sustainable materials and making art to display outdoors. She will engage Minnesotans through classes, story gathering, and display of works in progress. |
Willow Gentile, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Gentile will embark on a journey to create ten plein air pop-up style paintings at ten small town or rural communities in Minnesota. She will provide a community easel available for anyone to plein air paint and take their creation home. |
Gregory A. Gilbert, Saint Paul | $ 9,949 | | Gilbert will create a series of photographic portraits of patients in hospice care living to their fullest, engaging Minnesotans in a public exhibition of the work. |
Nedahness R. Greene, Remer | $ 9,995 | | Greene will photograph ten Indigenous elders engaged in traditional art forms in northern Minnesota and present a solo exhibition with an artist talk at the Beltrami County History Center in summer 2025. |
Kara F. Gregory, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Gregory will explore large-scale printmaking processes, light, and sound to create a multimedia, site-specific installation for public exhibition and will provide an accompanying artist talk. |
Yvette R. Griffea-Gray, Minneapolis | $ 9,934 | | Griffea-Gray will deepen her understanding of visual storytelling through artist mentorship, develop technical skills to refine her artistic practice, produce a new body of work for exhibition, and host an artist talk. |
Laura A. Grisamore, Menahga | $ 9,975 | | Grisamore will expand the scope of "Project Unincorporated Minnesota", a virtual engagement documentary focusing on rural unincorporated towns in northern Minnesota, and create a new body of photo documentary for exhibititions in rural areas. |
Karen Gustafson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Gustafson will engage with the East Lake Minneapolis community tapestry workshops, create artwork motivated by the Mississippi River gorge area, and exhibit these works at open studio events including Art Attack in northeast Minneapolis. |
Carla D. Hamilton, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Hamilton will create a new body of mixed media work titled "The Cost of Poverty: It's Expensive to be Poor", exploring the societal costs of social inequity; the work will be presented at two or more venues in Minnesota. |
Cindy Hamilton, Williams | $ 10,000 | | Hamilton will create ten new works of art that celebrate how the Ojibwe brought the beauty of nature into their everyday lives through adornment of clothing and accessories; the work will be displayed at the Miikanan Gallery in the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. |
Amanda Hanlon, Stillwater | $ 10,000 | | Hanlon will create paintings and prints inspired by the landscapes of three cities in Minnesota, each representing different stages of industrial development, culminating in a solo exhibition and artist talk. |
Ursula Hargens, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Hargens will develop an illustration portfolio, creating a physical and digital archive that includes finished illustrations, preparatory drawings, didactics, and process notes that can be shared with teaching artists in greater Minnesota. |
Nelia Harper, Grand Rapids | $ 10,000 | | Harper will complete new paintings and exhibit the work in October 2025 at the Johnson Heritage Post art gallery in Grand Marais, engaging Minnesotans with an artist talk and demonstration. |
Steve Harris, Lanesboro | $ 10,000 | | Harris will grow as an artist from published writer to accomplished storyteller, sharing his two books-Lanesboro, Minnesota and Dads Like Us-with underserved populations and disability communities in greater Minnesota. |
Naomi Hart, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Hart will create new bodies of visual art work for exhibition. She will spend focused time through residencies to create intaglio prints to be used as substrates for her work. |
Marian Hassan, Woodbury | $ 10,000 | | Hassan will collect traditional Somali children's songs and lullabies from elderly community members, transferring them from oral to written form, preserving these cultural literacies for future generations of Somali-Minnesotan children. |
Nicole A. Havekost, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Havekost will create new work for her October 2025 exhibition at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University's Alice R. Rogers Gallery and Target Gallery in Collegeville. |
Nick Healy, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Healy will write new short stories to complete a collection in progress, and publish new installments in a monthly series of essays on Minnesota literature. He will also present readings and workshops in greater Minnesota. |
Scott J. Hebert, Duluth | $ 9,999 | | Hebert will continue development and production of the podcast web series, "Twin Portals", producing four live video podcast recordings in greater Minnesota. These free events will be a gathering point for audiences in northern Minnesota. |
Tou Her, Big Lake | $ 9,970 | | Her will deepen her understanding of Hmong history and produce new artwork for an exhibition that shares the story with a wider audience. |
Paul D. Herwig, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Herwig will create Prairie Fire, a project combining projection art and live performance that will explore the origins of political extremism. |
Jill R. Hildebrandt, Saint Peter | $ 10,000 | | Hildebrandt will self-publish, Jillted, a memoir in 56 lessons, and will hold a public reading. |
Steve Hirsh, Willow River | $ 9,985 | | Hirsh will perform in a musical trio with New York City based saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist Matt Hollenberg in Sandstone and the Twin Cities, and will record an album for future release. |
Serena Hodges, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Hodges will host feedback screenings for their personal feature-length documentary, Muncie Didu, about their great aunt's life. Beyond discussing the film, insights and progress reports on production and postproduction will be shared. |
Josephine L. Hoffman, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Hoffman will create a series of workshops for Native American youth and adults in the Twin Cities and rural Minnesota in which they will explore aerial movement in an environment that is culturally sensitive towards their needs. |
Esther M. Hoffmann, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Hoffmann will create an anthology of the art, writings, and interviews of natural and societal orphans interwoven with her own story in poetry. Public readings will be held at Poor Farm Studios in Mankato and Curiosi-tea House in Winona. |
Robert P. Hofmann, Duluth | $ 8,000 | | Hofmann will coordinate and lead a community of Duluth theater artists to create an original musical resulting in a public workshop reading performance of the original work presented in Duluth and the Twin Cities. |
Jessica L. Holleque, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Holleque, a film photographer, will create a new body of work through four photo sessions in rural Minnesota's Iron Range area, and two workshops exploring the visual family archive as a creative landscape for conceptual photography. |
Marcel D. Hones, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Hones will deepen his knowledge of early Christian painting traditions by creating an adaptation of the Stations of the Cross that fosters dignity and sense of belonging in poor and working class Minnesotans; work will be exhibited in three locations. |
Matthew Hope, Minneapolis | $ 6,200 | | Hope is a working musician that will continue to serve the senior community through historical and cultural entertainment. |
Keith T. Hopkins, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Hopkins will complete a novel and release an audiobook, making it accessible to greater Minnesota residents with visual impairment and limited English proficiency. |
Alice Hu, Minneapolis | $ 9,990 | | Hu will produce documentary film about Joseph Lin's calligraphy class and its impact on the local Asian-American community. |
Su Hwang, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Hwang will research and draft a new experimental poetry memoir titled INVASIVE ME, completing the chapter on how the Emerald Ash Borer impacts Minnesota ecosystems, culminating in an in person panel talk about ecopoetics with local BIPOC writers. |
Alejandra E. Iannone, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Iannone will develop a revised script of "The Room with Closets" to amplify the Latinx and immigrant experience, in collaboration with Latinx artists and other community members. |
Jibra'il Ibraheem, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Ibraheem will host music making workshops for BIPOC youth, emphasizing music's therapeutic benefits, and will hold a listening party in the Twin Cities community for the release of his album LIMINALITY. |
Lauren G. Ihrke, La Crescent | $ 4,848 | | Ihrke will work with local community education groups to host a creative writing editing workshop. |
Monica Ihrke, Duluth | $ 3,000 | | Ihrke will carve into linoleum and hand print images of ten to fifteen local, backyard invasive plants. Using these images, Ihrke will create and distribute an educational guide, informing the community about local invasive plants in their backyard. |
Ket Insisiengmay, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Insisiengmay will perform live his original Lao, Thai, American English songs at a Lao New Year event. |
Jai, Saint Paul | $ 9,995 | | Jai will direct and produce "Honey Buns and Black and Milds", a short film written by Kira Bunkholt and Makena Froebel, two screenwriters based in the Twin Cities. Jai will provide free filmmaking workshops and a community table read of the script. |
Samuel James, Winona | $ 10,000 | | James will produce "Weighted Hugs", a fashion embodiment that addresses anxiety and calms the mind and body. In an era of mental health crisis, James's work offers mechanisms of care and support. |
Jacklyn N. Janeksela, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Janeksela will write nonfiction, environmental justice, nature focused essays that evoke the reader to feel, take positive action, and share what they learn; Saami language will be incorporated. |
Cassidy Jay, Laporte | $ 10,000 | | Jay will broaden the musical awareness of Minnesotans through showcasing the art of music composition with an emphasis on improvisation and artistic expression. He will release recordings, present live shows, and publish content online. |
Deborah K. Jiang-Stein, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Jiang-Stein will explore perceptions about money and human value through her writing project involving men and women in prison-"Marked Money: Stories Behind Bars". |
John S. Jodzio, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Jodzio will finish a new novel, host three public readings, and lead three community writing workshops. |
Brian J. Johnson, Cannon Falls | $ 10,000 | | Johnson will engage in a journey of education through music lessons. He will showcase his growth through performances, including collaborations with greater Minnesota organizations serving youth and individuals with disabilities. |
Megan R. Jorgenson, Kimball | $ 10,000 | | Jorgenson will test and develop ash glazes using locally sourced plant and wood ash as the primary ingredient, and showcase these glazes on her ceramic artwork. |
Kristen L. Kaas, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Kaas will create, exhibit, and teach a workshop relating to her new woven work exploring themes of grief, trauma, and loss. |
Penny M. Kagigebi, Detroit Lakes | $ 10,000 | | Kagigebi will expand use of digital art tools for design, utilize studio time to develop "evolved quillbox", and continue an art and community collaboration for Native two spirit cultural reclamation. |
Kymani Kahlil, Crystal | $ 10,000 | | Kahlil will present Thou Art Beautifully and Wonderfully Made, documenting their generative creative process as a tool for healing personal and community trauma experienced by trans and nonbinary identities, through storytelling, music, and dance. |
Asuka Kakitani, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Kakitani will compose, produce a CD and digital recording, and present a concert of a 25-minute solo acoustic bass work and a workshop featuring renowed bassist Mark Urness, to reach and impact Minnesota audiences and beyond. |
Chris Kalogerson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kalogerson will create new original patriotic music, will make a professional recording of new works, and will perform three free patriotic shows showcasing new works at new low-income veterans housing across Minnesota. |
Magdalena C. Kaluza, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Kaluza will host their first gallery show, centering their experience with long COVID and their Maya K'iche' roots. The target audience is people of Latinx/Indigenous descent, and those living with disabilities or chronic illness. |
Patti Kameya, Saint Paul | $ 7,050 | | Kameya will develop skills writing creative nonfiction about Minnesota by taking a writing class and revising her manuscript The Kimono Shop off Nicollet. |
Rebecca Kanner, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Kanner will research and write an essay delving into the ways in which Minnesotans suffering from addiction and mental illness are navigating difficult times, presenting the work in a public reading and writer's talk. |
Russ Kaplan, Minneapolis | $ 9,930 | | Kaplan will create an arrangement of international music with a message of tolerance and unity-based on pieces from the Voyager Golden Record-for choral/percussion ensemble, and will present the concert to greater Minnesota audiences. |
Katie Kaufmann, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kaufmann will create and present a mask performance about the power of imagination and connection to transcend aging and isolation. |
Lucina B. Kayee, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Kayee will conduct research for a documentary on the lives of Black youth and Black DJs in Minnesota, exploring policing and displacement's impact on nightlife and communal spaces for Black folks in the Twin Cities. |
Johanna Keller Flores, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Flores will workshop and expand her draft of Angelita into a full-length play and will present a public staged reading of the new draft with local theater artists. |
Frederick Keller, Sandstone | $ 9,890 | | Keller will complete a recording of original songs and stories about little known Minnesota history. The digital recording will include an accompanying booklet of the complete stories and tablature for each song. |
R. J. Kern, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kern will present a series of community engagement programs at five county fairs in greater Minnesota. Focused on rural youth and fifty-five plus aged audiences, programming includes storytelling presentations, workshops, and an exhibition of photography. |
Rafa Kern, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kern will complete a draft of a screenplay for a feature film (an absurd comedy) about anti-Semitism and Christian Zionism and will direct a table reading of the same. |
Tumelo Khupe, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Khupe will develop and share a creative process framework to engage Twin Cities street dance artists through workshops. |
Isaac Kidder, Saint Paul | $ 9,999 | | Kidder will create and display a new interactive public sculpture in a greater Minnesota community. Members of the public will be invited to view and interact with the artwork. |
Athena O. Kildegaard, Farwell | $ 10,000 | | Kildegaard and three poets at different career stages, and with roots in different communities, will visit six communities of varying sizes in southwestern Minnesota, give readings, lead workshops, and engage people at farmer's markets, brew pubs, and libraries. |
Sophia E. Kim, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kim will explore publishing opportunities for her first novel and three children's picture book manuscripts, provide nine children's book writing critique workshops for emerging writers of color, and hold one public reading. |
Ann Klefstad, Duluth | $ 9,860 | | Klefstad will create murals of wild birds on polytab fabric to be shown at Zeitgeist Arts and then publicly sited. |
Riley Kleve, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kleve will create a manuscript on collaborative craft histories, offering projects for readers to explore collaboration. They will lead four in person workshops for LGBTQ+ crafters to test book prompts. |
Henry E. Kneiszel, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Kneiszel will generate, refine, and perform new poetry with the end goal of publishing a speculative chapbook as well as a full-length collection. |
Janna Knittel, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Knittel will create community engagement activities in Saint Cloud in collaboration with Great River Regional Library and Saint Cloud State University. Knittel will invite two Twin Cities based writers to give writing workshops and a public reading. |
Julie A. Koehnen, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Koehnen will turn her television pilot, Summit Avenue, into a full-length feature film script. Summit Avenue was inspired by true events of the Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution as it happened here in the Midwest. |
Zoë Koenig, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Koenig will debut a new dance work "Physical Prizes" in October 2025 at the Southern Theater, in collaboration with composer Nora Nygard and local dancers. |
Teresa L. Konechne, Henderson | $ 10,000 | | Konechne will complete Fallow, an online interactive fiction and artist book about trauma and burnout. Fallow shines a light on these topics so people may better understand them for themselves and others, so healing and compassion can emerge. |
Laura Korynta, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Korynta will develop and deepen skills in traditional and sculptural basketry with an emphasis in willow, and will hold basketmaking workshops for elders struggling with memory loss. |
Emily H. Kretschmer, Saint Peter | $ 7,500 | | Emily Kretschmer will create new abstract artwork based on her experiences in and around her southern Minnesota home, Saint Peter. Through consultations with Springboard for the Arts staff she will also plan for artistic development. |
Sherri Kruger-Kukowski, Badger | $ 9,500 | | Kruger-Kukowski will engage Minnesotans in the process of creating a public art sculpture using styrofoam, wedi board, and stained glass for future submission to sculpture gardens and walks that have annual artist calls. |
Kathleen Kvern, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Kvern will create encaustic paintings and present a gallery show and artist talk. She will also lead a series of encaustic workshops that explore the intersection of a creative practice and the process of recovering mental health and well-being. |
Mary C. La Patka, Willmar | $ 10,000 | | La Patka will establish a Sibley State Park florilegium in collaboration with park naturalists by creating two paintings of park flora. The florilegium will be an ongoing collection of artworks depicting a visual historical record of park plants. |
Paul LaJeunesse, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | LaJeunesse will develop a new body of multimedia imagery culminating in a public mural of one of the designs. |
Jeannie Lander, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Lander will direct and produce a movie trailer for a larger film project about a middle-aged Asian mother navigating the world of construction trades, along with a diverse team of other creatives from the media/film arts. |
Connor J. Lane, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Lane will devise a new work that combines the interactive experience of line dancing with traditional theater; the project will include devising workshops and a performance. |
Kim A. Larson, Moorhead | $ 9,428 | | Larson will read her second published picture book, Doll Trouble, and give a workshop, on the essential elements in writing a story, to elementary students in fifteen public schools in greater Minnesota. |
Woodlin Latocki, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Latocki will create a series of prints exploring Minnesota, urban landscapes self-produced through Risograph printing, culminating in an exhibition of the completed work. |
Lauda La Arista, Saint Paul | $ 9,995 | | La Arista's "Lauda Out Loud" podcast showcases Minnesota artists and helps them reach a new audiences while sharing their truths in a trusted environment. |
Kimberly A. Laudert, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Laudert will write autobiographical work that explores the impact that aging has upon her artistic work and also hold a public workshop to explore this theme. |
Erin Lavelle, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Lavelle will do advanced study of a Swedish hair weaving folk art (hårarbete) with a Duluth based mentor. She will then collect hair grown during the pandemic and develop installations that reflect on COVID-19 with a distinct cultural lens. |
Gregory E. Lecker, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | In The Arctic: Circling Back, painter Greg Lecker will develop a new body of work inspired by studies made while sailing and hiking the Svalbard islands of Norway in 2022. He will share his creative process during a year-long series of virtual and in person workshops. |
Steven Lemke, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Lemke will use new tools and technologies to produce 14 mixed-media sculptures referencing visuals symbolic of suburban housing. He will explore new ways to install and exhibit these works publicly, both in person and online. |
Madeline Lenaburg, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Lenaburg and collaborator Rosa Raarup will produce a theater performance about the climate crisis within their creative practice MADROSA. Using interviews as source material, they will connect rural farmers, local businesses, and metropolitan consumers. |
Nic Lincoln, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Lincoln will present a twenty-year retrospective of his choreographic works, and also create a brand new piece. For this show, he will be teaming with Queer Space Collective, a group that provides the LGBTQIA2+ community a network of support through mentorships. |
Annie Lindenberg, Mankato | $ 9,481 | | Lindenberg will produce a completed draft of her fiction manuscript. She will engage the community via readings from her work and with writing workshops tailored toward education on craft elements drawn from her own writing process. |
Doug Little, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Little will create repertoire for jazz quartet with string quartet, investing in equipment to improve the sound experience for both performers and audiences alike. The new music will engage audiences in Minnesota in summer 2025. |
Isavela I. Lopez, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Lopez, a Minnesota based spoken word artist, will finish writing her manuscript. Through community workshops and performances, Lopez aims to engage communities in dialogue on migration, climate justice, and domestic abuse. |
TJ Lor, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Lor will create Kev sib Yuav (Hmong Marriage), a photography and exhibit series that explores traditional Hmong ceremonies from the perspective of same sex couples that struggle to find a way to marry while honoring their cultural traditions. |
Indira Lorick, Cambridge | $ 10,000 | | Lorick will host a breakdancing workshop featuring local and national artists, highlighting the art form's history and contemporary cultural relevance, contributing to development of a children's show on breakdancing through motion capture and mixed media. |
Amy M. Lucas-Peroceski, Chisholm | $ 9,672 | | Lucas-Peroceski will provide adult art education in watercolor painting in six northern Minnesota libraries. |
Amos Lucidi, Saint Paul | $ 9,400 | | Lucidi will present a series of concerts with music by Manuel Ponce to highlight Mexican folklore traditions. |
José A. Luis, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Luis will return to solo work by integrating two choreographers in a new layered evening dance performance. |
Lala Luzious, Minneapolis | $ 9,986 | | Minneapolis based drag queen Lala Luzious will empower Minnesota listeners to pursue their dreams fearlessly through bite-sized media arts podcast episodes and live podcast recording events. |
Andrew J. MacGuffie, Lindstrom | $ 10,000 | | MacGuffie will build community through a public art event at Silverwood Park. |
Hannah Z. MacKenzie-Margulies, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | MacKenzie-Margulies will present "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins", a young audience friendly contemporary and traditional dance work, in two greater Minnesota communities during the 2025 Hanukkah holiday. |
Shakun Maheshwari, Orono | $ 10,000 | | Maheshwari will research, develop lesson plans, and create art based on tribal Indian traditions. Community gatherings celebrating folk art traditions from Rajasthan, Gujarat, and southern India will bring joy to all participants. |
Prakshi Malik, Fridley | $ 10,000 | | Malik will develop a nonfiction film about individuals' changing relationship with faith and spirituality throughout their lives by hosting a storytelling workshop, filming interviews with participants, collecting archival material, and sharing a work in progress for feedback. |
Avigail Manneberg, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Manneberg explores Middle East conflicts through art, fostering empathy and reflecting on identity. With this grant, she is preparing for a solo show, aiming to elevate her artistry and amplify marginalized voices. |
Mary Jane Mansfield, Minneapolis | $ 9,850 | | Mansfield will create and exhibit a series of multimedia drawings around the idea of resilience. She will host a community conversation during the exhibit, posing the questions: What makes us resilient and how does it shape our work?" |
Sharon Mansur, Winona | $ 9,965 | | Mansur will create and perform a dance solo, complete a dance film, curate a Southwest Asian and North African film series and share a digital dance installation/archive to deepen artistry, collaboration, and community exchange within her Wayfinding project. |
Josina Manu Maltzman, Minneapolis | $ 9,996 | | Manu Maltzman will host readings and writing workshops, and make a chapbook available free online in audio and PDF format. Events will be accessible, a mix of in person and Zoom, and will engage multiple communities. |
Marianne M. Manzler, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Manzler will write and edit a memoir in essays that explore identity, media, and illness; start a podcast to interview BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ creators and entrepreneurs; and host an accessible and inclusive reading to elevate voices on the margin. |
Anthony P. Marchetti, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Marchetti will complete his photographic project about Morrison County and produce an exhibition at the Weyerhaeuser Museum, home of the Morrison County Historical Society. |
Eva Margaret, Willmar | $ 10,000 | | Margaret will create new works and exhibit in the rural community of Willmar. |
Cody Masback, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Masback will produce a series of paintings that reclaim the historically fraught practice of portraiture by depicting trans and LGBTQIA+ Minnesotans through a collaborative process that uplifts their stories and celebrates their lives. |
Aurora Masum-Javed, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Masum-Javed will complete her first book and host three artists' and writers' salons. |
Nazara Matos, Minneapolis | $ 9,262 | | Matos will engage young people from Face to Face Academy in learning about the photography process and will celebrate their academic achievements by making professional graduation portraits. |
Charles V. Matson Lume, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Matson Lume will make an artist book with three of his former students resulting in books, book launches, and an art exhibition. These celebrate their artistic care for one another and honors the meaningful and lasting bonds between teachers and students. |
Ezra D. Mattes, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Mattes will create new collaborative fiction comics and host a digital workshop for students in Minnesota, especially from the disabled and LGBTQ+ community, culminating in a live reading and showcase in Minneapolis. |
Claudia R. May, Fridley | $ 10,000 | | May's Poetry Tree Initiative embraces multicultural and multigenerational poetic and spoken word articulations on the significance of trees to various cultures. |
Lester E. Mayers, Saint Paul | $ 4,625 | | Mayers will conduct meticulous interviews that will help theatrically unveil the extraordinary and crucial narrative of Black Minnesotans, illuminating their struggles and joys and amplifying their voices. |
Shea J. Maze, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Maze will create an art exhibit intended to be experienced through physical touch by blind and low vision individuals. Audio and braille didactics and other accommodations will be made to create art space for individials who can't otherwise experience visual art. |
Paula M. McCartney, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | McCartney will create and publish a new photo book and teach bookmaking workshops in greater Minnesota, sharing her passion and experience in the medium. |
Layl M. McDill, Minneapolis | $ 8,650 | | McDill will interview Minnesota farmers and create a series of large-scale, mixed-media sculptures inspired by these conversations. These interactive sculptures will be exhibited at the Evansville Art Center and the artist will offer classes developed specifically for the exhibit. |
Alison R. McGhee, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | McGhee will develop three, new, one-day creative writing workshops and offer them online for Minnesotans struggling with various forms of past or present trauma. |
Steph McKenzie, Northfield | $ 7,600 | | McKenzie will offer the public the opportunity to participate in the making of a large-scale project relating to culture, the arts, and the challenge of making a really big print. |
Kathy McTavish, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | McTavish will create a cross-media installation called "hypertext" that visualizes relational patterns and pathways through information space. This work will be exhibited at the University of Minnesota Duluth library and in Duluth's craft district. |
Kelley Meister, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Meister will write a guidebook for sick and disabled artists' creative well-being that helps make adapting one's practice more accessible. |
Laura Migliorino, Minneapolis | $ 6,000 | | Migliorino will engage Minnesotans through "The Hidden Life of Books: Banned and Burned", a photography series highlighting the history of banning books and censorship. |
Alyssa J. Miller, Arden Hills | $ 9,980 | | Miller will curate virtual and in person "sacred writing spaces" that allow people to block out the noise of preconceived expectations of how they should speak to and feel about their racial experience. Multiracial Minnesotans will be able to explore their experiences through creative narrative, generating new work and an anthology of the writing that emerges. |
Scott Miller, Otsego | $ 10,000 | | Miller will transform his approach to COVID era telematic music making in response to demands for in person experiences and waning interest in network art. |
Ann Millikan, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Ann Millikan will create an opera about snow, and engage the Granite Falls community in the development process through participation in a libretto reading workshop. |
Samuel P. Miltich, Grand Rapids | $ 10,000 | | Miltich will present a monthly jazz performance series for the First Friday Art Walk in Grand Rapids. |
Abdirahman Mohamed, Richfield | $ 9,500 | | Mohamed will create a narrative short film depicting Somali elders reminiscing on their upbringing and dreams. The film will be screened for older and younger members of the diaspora to spark a desire to preserve our stories and relationships. |
Jess Morgan, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Morgan will interweave education about ADHD into engaging multidisciplinary art experiences for neurodivergent or "hat juggling" community members. |
Sona A. Nair, Hamel | $ 10,000 | | Nair aims to rejuvenate and connect an ancient Indian music composition Dhanasree Thillana to a dance form by blending unique art forms Mohiniyatam and Bharatanatyam. This classical fusion aims to broaden its appeal to varied audiences and present in a diverse style. |
Wil Natzel, Owatonna | $ 10,000 | | Natzel will create and present Superfluity, which seamlessly merges art and architecture, inviting playful interaction through an art installation of inflatable tubes adorned with dynamic lights and sounds that celebrates queer culture. |
Nathaniel L. Nelson, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Nelson will produce a series of short ethnographic documentaries about young musicians and artists in Minnesota. |
Ryan Gerald E. Nelson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Nelson will develop a deeper understanding of and connection with his Bdewákaŋtuŋwaŋ and Wahpétuŋwaŋ Dakota ancestry through the making of a reflective body of paintings, prints, and textile based works, all documented within a companion artist book. |
Nicholas K. Nerburn, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Nerburn will create a photo publication exploring the legacy of the Kensington Runestone, using a mix of landscapes, portraits, and interviews. |
Heidi L. Newbauer, Mankato | $ 8,275 | | Newbauer will host two historical fiction writing workshops and public readings at the Minnesota Discovery Center, featuring immigrant stories of the first miner families of the area. |
Cole Nfonoyim-Hara, Rochester | $ 10,000 |
| Nfonoyim-Hara will seek manuscript support from a book coach to complete her novel. She will also host a community, imaginative writing workshop based on ancestral myths of the Black/African diaspora. |
Angelina Nguyen, Maple Grove | $ 10,000 | | Nguyen will edit, publish, and distribute a full-length memoir about Vietnam war refugee experience and healing intergenerational trauma. |
John B. Nicol, Lanesboro | $ 10,000 | | Nicol will photograph buildings in rural Minnesota. He will present them formally at a reception and presentation, to allow the public access to the photographs and a bit of insight into the process that made it all possible. |
Sho Nikaido, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Nikaido, a local Japanese photographer, will offer four six-week long BlueSky Photo Workshops, designed to teach the community how to document their heritage through photography. Classes are held at Japanese restaurants during each session. |
John D. Noltner, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Noltner will create portraits and stories called "Sober", to document people on that path. |
Carolyn S. Olson, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Olson will share a collection of pastels depicting chosen family groups, while exploring and pushing the ability of pastel on paper. The process will be posted on the Web. Finished work will be exhibited in urban and rural galleries. |
Atim A. Opoka, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Opoka will develop and workshop "Lamaro and the Five Brothers," a creation story of the Luo culture, into a full-length puppet show and share the work in progress. |
Sara Osman, Bloomington | $ 10,000 | | Osman will produce a documentary film and digital archive exploring Somali womanhood in Minnesota. |
Akiko Ostlund, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Ostlund will create and present a multimedia performance, illustrating her experience as an immigrant woman of color in today's America, at Red Eye Theater in summer 2025. |
Sheila J. Packa, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Packa will compile new and past work, add a contextual essay, and publish in print and online with audio recordings. She will also give a public reading, workshop, and panel discussion in northern Minnesota. |
Maggie Panetta, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Panetta will present a gallery exhibition of new mixed-media work. |
Tina J. Park, Blaine | $ 10,000 | | Park will prepare and perform piano repertoire to be accompanied by projected graphics and visuals. The resulting multimedia experience will be performed in various public concerts in 2025. |
Juliet Patterson, Minneapolis | $ 8,520 | | Patterson will draft material for a book project that explores the political and social parallels between 1979 and the present day, interweaving American fixations on and lived experiences of sexuality, race, and consumerism. |
A Pavan, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Pavan will invite maestro Anindo Chatterjee and hold workshops for his tabla ensemble, Aavartan, to develop new work and perform a public concert. |
Darrell J. Pedersen, Baxter | $ 10,000 | | Pedersen will publish and print 500 large-print copies of his second memoir, Who Will Carry the Fire? More Reflections from a North Woods Lake, to enable sight challenged people to read and be reminded of their own childhood adventures. |
Erin Peña, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Peña will host a series of virtual workshops teaching the fundamentals of geometric beadwork. Participants will learn basic beadwork and geometry and those within Minnesota will receive a packet of resources and materials. |
Antoine Perkins, Brooklyn Park | $ 8,375 | | Perkins will create multiple recorded music releases and produce an in person live music event. |
Gary E. Peter, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Peter will write a series of personal essays to be included in a book length collection, and will offer a writing workshop for older LGBTQIA+ Minnesotans. |
Andrew T. Peterson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Peterson will complete a first draft of an original screenplay titled Somehow a Past, about visual artist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), which explores how his queer identity informed his art. |
Sarah Peterson, Lanesboro | $ 10,000 | | Peterson will continue to develop her craft of songwriting. She will partner with regional artists to coordinate workshops and performance opportunities for songwriters in southeast Minnesota, helping to foster the creative community in her region. |
Kirsti Petraborg, Woodbury | $ 10,000 | | Petraborg will organize and memorize repertoire for viola with a small Latin ensemble, which will be performed in various public settings in the second half of 2025. |
Ocean C. Poet, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Poet will offer poetry workshops aimed at engaging people with disabilities. |
Lane M. Powell, Harmony | $ 10,000 | | Powell will compose and distribute free copies of concert band music to public schools in Minnesota that celebrates the history of African American music in the United States. |
Jessica L. Prill, Faribault | $ 10,000 | | Prill will explore the techniques of lost wax and sand casting to create a new body of work to be on public display through her gallery in Faribault. |
Cassandra Quinn, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Quinn will explore the roles and the work of mother artists, creating collages using materials she creates with her daughters. |
Karen E. Quiroz, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Quiroz will partner with Brazilian immigrants to support them as they reclaim their culture through dance and to bring traditional Brazilian music to Minnesota audiences through music and dance events. |
Shayla Reaves, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Reaves will create a children's book aiding BIPOC kids in processing emotions around loss, focusing on community building via events, and pairing the book with crafting to highlight creativity as tool for coping with grief. |
Yunior Rebollar, Osage | $ 10,000 | | Rebollar will create and exhibit a new collection of textile work. |
Glenda Reed, Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Reed will teach herself to finish her manuscript and use these insights to teach writing workshops for older adults. |
Lynette Reini-Grandell, Minneapolis | $ 9,780 | | Reini-Grandell will write historical fiction about Finnish immigrants in northern Minnesota, 1905-1918, in consultation with Ojibwe culture bearer Staci Drouillard. She will present her work and research to Minnesota communities. |
Xee Reiter, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Reiter will create dioramic depictions of Hmong homes across the globe by working with youth and elders from her community and turning their stories into dioramic pieces for an exhibition. |
Deb Reutter, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Reutter will develop her skills as a bead artist with local beading professionals. She will share her work, and the story of her ruptured brain aneurysm, in Minnesota art fairs to inspire others to use art as a therapeutic intervention for recovery. |
Jes Reyes, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Reyes will continue her fiber art practice and hold a workshop to engage Minnesotans in learning circular weaving skills. |
Scotty Reynolds, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Reynolds will lead the creation of 1460 Mount Curve, a narrative cabaret, disco romp, and historical account of housing and care for people with HIV; and a revelry of imagination for future LGBTQ elder care. Performances will be given in community and nightlife venues. |
Connor K. Rice, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Rice will create an exhibition of their work with local audio artists to produce a healing installation. The sound and visual collaboration will be unique and provide space for Black and Brown creatives to engage in the local art community. |
Deneane Richburg, Vadnais Heights | $ 10,000 | | Richburg will deepen her connection with Minnesota Black communities by strengthening her creative practice and artistic work, facilitating artistic collaboration with local Black and Brown skating artists. |
Andy Richter, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Richter will develop new skills and create an artist book of photographs with local master printer and bookmaker Keith Taylor. He will teach photography and share his creative process through engagement with youth experiencing homelessness. |
Rachel Ries, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Ries will write, arrange, rehearse, and direct new contemporary choral works for Kith + Kin Chorus, a 75-person rock and roll community choir, to be shared in public performances. |
Tracy L. Rittmueller, Sauk Rapids | $ 10,000 | | Rittmueller will draw from her own writings and experiences to research, write, and test an embodied creative writing and improv theater praxis workshop for adults ages 55+ who are care partners to persons living with memory loss (dementia). |
Lia Rivamonte, Minneapolis | $ 9,630 | | Rivamonte will develop a manuscript of essays, poetry, and images that explore her experience as a second-generation Filipinx immigrant. |
Hettie Roberts, Rochester | $ 8,050 | | Roberts will create a collection of 8+ Minnesota landscape paintings, sharing the process online via photo and video. In lieu of an exhibit, she will donate a selection of framed prints from the collection to a Rochester area care facility. |
Jamie Robertson, Wadena | $ 10,000 | | Robertson will bring Minnesotans into conversation with the natural environment of Wadena County through photography and by completing a photographic/video project working with students enrolled at the Wadena-Deer Creek Schools. |
Damian Rodriguez, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Rodriguez will prepare and rehearse new musical repertoire, and produce professional quality videos performance clips for debut in mid 2025. |
Troy Rogers, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Rogers (aka Robot Rickshaw) is a composer who will create and document a pop-up experimental art event off the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth. |
Dawn M. Rossbach, Menahga | $ 10,000 | | Rossbach will create a new body of work related to aphantasia and memory. The artist will engage with an online audience about aphantasia during the process. |
Steve Rowell, Minneapolis | $ 9,720 | | Rowell will document the impact of forever chemicals through photography and collaboration, amplifying voices via visual storytelling, and fostering empathy for a sustainable future in Minnesota. |
RRA, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | RRA will develop skills and experience in combining music and visuals for live shows, marketing, and recordings. |
Paul J. Rudoi, West Saint Paul | $ 10,000 |
| Rudoi will develop his skills as a composer of theatrical music by writing a one-act chamber opera, From Dust to Love, focused on relevant topics for older populations, for the mature artist led, Minnesota based opera company, Raison d'Être Opéra. |
Laura E. Ruprecht, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Ruprecht will create new mosaics of Minnesota wildlife for display in two solo exhibitions. |
Megan Rye, Edina | $ 10,000 | | Rye will create her visual art project, Quilt, using her Korean passport, a pair of quilted overalls from childhood, and Minnesota icons to tell the story of her journey from Seoul, Korea, in 1975 to a Minnesota childhood in the 1980s. The work will be exhibited in public spaces. |
Sarah L. Sampedro, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Sampedro will design and print an artist book. |
JC Sanford, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Sanford will engage residents of Northfield in the creation of a new jazz project with professional jazz musicians. |
Kathryn Savage, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Savage will complete her second book of ecological poems and engage residents of communities across the state through four writing workshops about ecopoetry. |
Judith A. Saye-Willis, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Saye-Willis will expand her pallet to include colors from nature's materials throughout greater Minnesota, publish a booklet of her findings, and give demonstrations at organizations that serve older adults, engaging them in creative activities. |
Colin S. Scharf, Mankato | $ 9,000 | | Scharf will record new original music and give a public performance in Mankato. |
Jacob Schlichter, Albert Lea | $ 10,000 | | Schlichter will display the natural beauty of the Milky Way and aurora as seen from various spots throughout Minnesota, ending with a public capstone event about astrophotography. |
Naomi R. Schliesman, Fergus Falls | $ 10,000 | | Schliesman will create a new body of art that will be exhibited at the Kaddatz Galleries in July/August 2025, and she will give an artist talk. |
Steven J. Schmidt, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Schmidt will engage Minnesotans in his creative practice through a series of YouTube videos titled "The Songwriter's Craft". He will present a concert featuring original songs and lyrics inspired by the southeast Minnesota coulee region, and produce a new recording. |
Anika H. Schneider, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Schneider will create a new multimedia craft based body of work titled "Whitewashed Melting Pot". The work will explore the dualities, challenges, and joys of being a mixed race Chinese American. Schneider will adapt the work to be shared in an online format. |
Christa R. Schneider, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 |
| Schneider will compose and present an original score with an ensemble and narrator for the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, and will perform Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals with an ensemble during performances for urban and rural youth. |
Jamie Schumacher, Bloomington | $ 10,000 | | Schumacher will host mask making activities in the community to spark conversations around themes of autism, immigration, and culture, from which she will draw inspiration to create a new body of written and visual artwork. |
Patrick E. Scully, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Scully will research and write part two of his trilogy Somewhere Along the Rainbow, which will include three public readings of "Part 2" as a work in progress and interviewing many Minnesotans. |
Luverne G. Seifert, Saint Anthony | $ 10,000 | | Seifert will collaborate with three interdisciplinary artists and two female managed family farms to create a site specific performance based on the rituals of small family farming, titled FARM. |
Christopher M. Selleck, Robbinsdale | $ 10,000 | | Selleck will create a full color catalog of his artwork with the help of a local book designer. It will include critical essays from regional writers. The catalog will be distributed to libraries and nonprofits throughout the state. |
April L. Sellers, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Sellers will deepen her individual choreography practice and begin developing "Queer Nature," a new dance work, at a one-week group residency at Tofte Lake Center in Ely. The residency will be documented in a video blog and culminate in a live performance. |
Andrea R. Shaker, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Shaker will create an animation of still photographs, text, and sound addressing home, migration, and diaspora. She will collaborate with Minnesota Arab Americans to make the animation and will conduct an in process screening and storyboarding workshop. |
Thadra D. Sheridan, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Sheridan will assemble a book length memoir while workshopping her personal essays at programs that reach elder Minnesotans in Minneapolis. She will also plan two shows in rural Minnesota, cultivating the folk tradition of storytelling. |
Sun Yung Shin, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Shin will write a poetry manuscript based on the history of land ownership and segregation in Minnesota and present it to an audience in a public performance. |
Witt Siasoco, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Siasoco will create a mural in northeast Minneapolis, exploring issues affecting the Mississippi watershed, with students from Edison High School. |
Yasmeenah Sideak-Jama, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Sideak-Jama will craft a transformative sound system experience to delve into society's intricate relationship with sound, hosting music workshops in community art spaces. |
Rosy Simas, Minneapolis | $ 6,000 | | Simas will organize a daylong Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) film festival to share Haudenosaunee culture with Native filmmakers, and Native and general audiences from Mni Sota Makoce. |
Jesse Simon, Saint Paul | $ 9,750 | | Simon, a Minnesota jazz drummer, will collaborate with Omar Abdulkarim to bring Muslim and Jewish musicians together to perform free concerts at Twin Cities synagogues and mosques, showcasing the power of jazz music as a medium of healing and unity. |
Loretta J. Simonet, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Simonet will expand her skill from playing the small folk harp to the big, full-size concert harp; give three concerts for Minnesotans; and write out sheet music of several of her original songs for Minnesotans to download. |
Jeremy Simonson, Park Rapids | $ 9,999 | | Simonson will capture the "Heartland Portraits" project, documenting artisans in the Itasca State Park region of Minnesota. Through immersive interviews, documentary photography, and portraiture, he will celebrate the community's cultural richness. |
Noi Siratt, Minneapolis | $ 6,666 | | Siratt is presenting a solo show of their work which consists of mixed-media paintings and interactive installations that foster connection. Siratt will be exploring their cultural heritage and learning the workings of conducting a solo show. |
Ailee Slater, Mankato | $ 5,510 | | Slater, a writer and stand-up comedian, will develop her creative writing practice while engaging women and gender minority people in comedy writing workshops. |
Wilhelmina W. Smith, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Smith will perform solo cello works by composer Victoria Yagling for elderly and disabled audiences in northern Minnesota, and will professionally record Yagling's works for subsequent release and distribution. |
Jovan C. Speller, Osage | $ 10,000 | | Speller will create a new photographic body of work titled "Of Land and Water", presenting it to the public and giving an artist talk in fall 2025. |
Bernadette B. Spray, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Spray, a jazz vocalist who identifies as autistic, will produce and lead a series of jazz vocal clinics with a unionized professional jazz trio at Twin Cities public schools and college vocal programs, highlighting autism awareness. |
Erinn Springer, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Springer will create a photographic series illustrating the intersection of industry and people surrounding Lake Superior. |
Zachary R. Sproles, Mankato | $ 9,800 | | Sproles aims to enhance their reach, portfolio, and skills by creating professional grade music videos and an EP for local musical projects in underserved local communities in the Mankato area. |
AJ Srubas, Minneapolis | $ 9,850 | | Through Srubas's first solo recording, he will deepen his mastery of the instrument, develop his creative voice, and share his love of the fiddle, something that has been his life's primary focus. |
Emery Stephens, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Stephens will produce a professional digital recording project focused primarily on the works of Black composers, culminating in a public listening session of the finished recording in greater Minnesota. |
Molly K. Stoltz, Saint Peter | $ 9,950 | | Stoltz will engage residents of Saint Peter in four different traditional professional flamenco performances featuring live music and dance at the library, Minnesota Square Park, and at Paddlefish Brewery. |
Debra J. Stone, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Stone will market her first published novel, The House on Rondo, with public readings and discussions. |
Sarah Stonich, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Stonich will complete a novel in progress and plot subsequent novels for a potential series of crime novels. In exploring and working in a new genre, Stonich endeavors to broaden the scope of her craft, career, and readership. |
Alyssa Stormes, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Stormes will travel to local high school orchestras to film a workshop as part of a documentary short-"Black Girls Don't Play Bass". |
Mic Stowell, Minneapolis | $ 7,500 | | Stowell will create fifteen ceramic sculptures. They will be exhibited at the Arts Center of Saint Peter, where he will also do a slide lecture and a workshop. |
Kevin L. Strauss, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Strauss will learn, adapt, craft, and perform new and traditional spoken word stories for audiences in outstate Minnesota communities. He will also document and preserve stories he has been telling for twenty years as online audio recordings. |
Stuff Studio, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | StuffStudio will reignite and reimagine Black oral traditions by developing audience interactive, collaborative, visual stories with animation, music, and poetic prose from a Black diasporic lens. |
Suzanne E. Szucs, Rochester | $ 10,000 | | Szucs will complete and present new photography and video work at a public exhibition at Riverland Community College. |
Gino Terrell, Maple Grove | $ 10,000 | | Terrell will add a creative film project to his "Telly 26" film catalogue that will shine a spotlight on African American artists and entertain African American audiences in the greater Twin Cities metro area. |
Megan B. Thompson, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Thompson will collaborate with Minnesota filmmakers, musicians, and experts on aging to continue work on her documentary film, The Lois Club, about a national network of social groups that started in Minnesota in the late 1970s. |
Nancy Thor, New Hope | $ 9,860 | | Thor will create a mini album featuring five tracks and host a small showcase in Minneapolis, where she will also perform live, and release an official music video from her album. |
Josh Thoreson, Hollandale | $ 10,000 | | Thoreson will empower Minnesota's firefighters with "After the Smoke Clears", a project that uses art to tackle mental health issues, fostering resilience and community through storytelling. |
Ross J. Thorn, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Thorn will work with local organizations and groups supporting typically unrepresented populations to develop songwriting and storytelling skills and create a music video for his song about radical empathy. |
Janet Timmerman, Lake Wilson | $ 10,000 | | Timmerman will work with a professional editor, publisher, and visual artist to take a draft manuscript of Halcyon Days: Leisure on Lake Shetek to final publication, utilizing it to lead book discussions and readings in rural locales. |
Elizabeth M. Torres, North Mankato | $ 10,000 | | Torres will revise a collection of poems, and facilitate a workshop and reading in Mankato. |
Amy T. Toscani, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Toscani will curate and participate in an exhibition by the LGBTQIA community at NE Sculpture Gallery in the Casket Arts Building; she will also produce new work in her studio throughout the grant period. |
Richard P. Tostenson, Bloomington | $ 10,000 | | Tostenson will present a concert of piano music composed by those whose voices were politically or culturally suppressed. |
Brenda Tran, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Tran will explore ways to further engage Minnesotan communities in person with her art about the Vietnamese diaspora. |
Joseph Tran, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 |
| Tran will create an evening length solo performance based on his 2021 McKnight dance film, "Good Enough", in collaboration with choreographer Rudi Goblen and composer Renée Copeland. |
Mary M. Traxler, Minneapolis | $ 3,800 | | Traxler will record, mix, and master the first album for their community oriented, environment inspired music project, "Fruitform", and will host a public album release show. |
Hedy Tripp, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Tripp will explore turning her finished manuscript into a published memoir of a Singapore Eurasian immigrant woman; while offering writing workshops around memoir themes of colonialism, anti-racism, and healing from breast cancer. |
Lisa S. Truax, Winona | $ 10,000 | | Truax will create and exhibit ceramic sculptures based on abstractions of the local environment, incorporating local and recycled materials, with a focus on rural Minnesota. |
MK Tuomanen, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Tuomanen will premiere their solo show, Consider the Cow, a raucous and imaginative retelling of the minotaur myth, at Red Eye Theater in 2025, inviting audiences to consider their own genderful liberation. |
Kyle E. Turck, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Turck (aka The Hero and The Villain) will engage collaborators in the production of an album of original music that aims to raise awareness and support for victims of domestic abuse. |
Inna L. Valin, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Valin will create a series illustrating the staggering impact of gun violence and the quest for justice and peace through the experiences of victims, survivors, and peace advocates in north Minneapolis. |
Chee Vang, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Vang will strengthen her writing craft skills to engage and highlight biographic stories of underrepresented Minnesotans. |
John Vang, Brooklyn Park | $ 10,000 | | Vang will develop his visual effects skills by creating a short film called "Three Lucky Cats". |
Song Vang, Blaine | $ 7,500 | | Vang will write a memoir called It's a Good Day to Be Brave and engage the community in conversation around intersectionality and social concerns through workshops and classes. |
Youa Vang, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Vang will conduct interviews with people closely connected to her family's immigration story along with her Hmong community (HAFA, Hmong women) and collect all of the stories into a cookbook. |
Pramila Vasudevan, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Vasudevan will integrate learnings from yoga practices into the creation of a dance practice and curriculum in which every movement supports the health and well-being of the practitioner, and will share this practice through public workshops. |
Diego Vázquez, Jr., Saint Paul | $ 10,000 |
| During the past ten years Vázquez had produced the Women's Writing Program in four different counties and edited over 40 anthologies; he left the program in 2022. He will use this grant to restart the program. |
Moira I. Villiard, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Using 2D artwork, community submissions, and a visual animated projection, Villiard's "Neighbors of the Womb: The Mythical Family" project will explore the dynamics of familial separation through the lens of two long lost siblings. |
Megan E. Vossler, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Vossler will work on "Figure Drawing for Every Body", an open educational resource for artists. With gender expansive text and representation of a wide range of bodies, it will introduce figure drawing via inclusivity, accessibility, and diversity. |
Natalija E. Walbridge, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Walbridge's fabric collages mimic Impressionist art's luminous palettes, capturing light's interplay through layered textiles. Pairing animals with habitats, she sparks curiosity and advocates nature preservation. |
Ling Wang, Lauderdale | $ 10,000 | | Wang will continue to take live online courses and tutoring to improve her artistic skills, lead workshops to introduce Peking opera to Minnesotans, and perform in local events for audiences of varied ethnic groups. |
Robin K. Warburton, Janesville | $ 10,000 | | Warburton will display "Minnesota Nature Alive In Wood" sculptures at the Arts Center of Saint Peter in November and December 2025, and will give a demonstration of carving. |
Dennis Warner, Clearwater | $ 10,000 | | Warner will present family concerts in rural communities of Minnesota. Following each performance, he will be available to greet the audience, answer questions, and/or share his story with aspiring musicians. |
Sarah E. Warren, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Warren will host picture book exhibits showcasing diverse Minnesota artists at MSP Airport. Viewers will use QR codes to buy books and to discover local cultural events linked to the books. In person story times will connect artists with readers. |
Claudette Webster, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Webster will develop her memoir into a manuscript and offer a series of readings and workshops. |
Sarah F. Weiss, Saint Paul | $ 9,999 | | Weiss will expand her artistic practice and build on its sustainability with more studio time to pursue new projects. She will continue to hone artistic skills and translate those skills into workshops and lessons. |
Bodhi Werner, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Werner will complete a 3D animated short film based on his first novel. He'll livestream a reading from his novels and the process of making the film. He'll make a multimedia online curriculum showing how to make a 3D animated short film. |
Kimberly A. Wetzel, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Wetzel will create a body of drawings inspired by landscapes in western Minnesota to engage rural communities through an exhibition and workshop. She will use nature and art to bring attention to mental health and conservation. |
Emily Wick, Grand Marais | $ 10,000 | | Using a traditional Scandinavian krokbragd pattern, Wick will design and weave three large tapestries which will be displayed in rural northern Minnesota. She will develop and teach a class on krokbragd tapestry technique. |
Robert E. Wildwood, Duluth | $ 10,000 | | Wildwood will publish and distribute Sun Ripened Fun Ideas: Volume 2, an illustrated prose poetry book containing uplifting themes and actual good ideas the reader may be inspired to try. |
Taja Will, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Will instigates a new ensemble work, ERODE, for its first developmental phase. They will develop their skills of working with a larger ensemble and continue thematic content of environmental solidarity. |
Briauna S. Williams, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Williams will gain experience participating in craft shows and art fairs in Minnesota, with the aim of enhancing her success as an artist and fostering stronger connections within the community. |
Mai'a Williams, Winona | $ 9,956 | | Williams will write and publish a book, Paradise Marronage, and will create a series of pop-up performance installations, based on the book, in different spaces in Winona. |
Dawn Wing, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Wing will publish and debut a new visual poetry chapbook inspired by the works of Jun Fujita and Voyageurs National Park. She will promote Japanese poetic forms through book arts at local literary events, public talks, and hands-on workshops. |
Michael D. Winingham, Champlin | $ 10,000 | | Winingham will help grow the local film community by producing a science fiction feature film in Minnesota that will prioritize diversity and inclusion, specifically with regard to Indigenous peoples both in front of and behind the camera. |
Matthew J. Winkler, Pine Island | $ 9,940 | | Winkler will create and exhibit a new group of collage paintings and will teach a series of youth art making workshops in his local community. |
Amanda M. Wirig, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Wirig will create and present an exhibition of new work documenting her experiences as a type one diabetic. |
Mark E. Wojahn, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Wojahn will finish his documentary about the Minnesota dancer, choreographer, and activist Patrick Scully. |
Michael L. Wolfe, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Wolfe will create the third in a series of films about his life as a queer, Black performance artist with autism. |
D. Helene Woods, Monticello | $ 10,000 | | Woods will complete five large-scale paintings to be used in traditional exhibitions and as springboards for experimentation with projection and media arts that will lead to experiential and interactive exhibition possibilities. |
Monroe Wright, Maplewood | $ 10,000 | | Wright will engage collaborators and audiences in organizing and presenting performances of authentic Las Vegas style big band music. |
Andrew P. Wykes, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | Wykes will have a solo show of paintings at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis in March 2025. The work exhibited will be made from landscape settings from southern Minnesota, mainly urban parkland. |
Liqing Xu, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Liqing will write a full-length screenplay, set in Minneapolis and featuring a genderqueer Asian protagonist, and will give a public work in progress reading for queer and Asian audiences. |
Choua Yang, Coon Rapids | $ 10,000 | | Yang will write Between Us, a poetry collection that highlights family bonds, the shifts in cultural awareness, and confrontation of queerness and identity; she will evaluate her work through active writers rooms and public readings. |
Yasmin Yassin, Minneapolis | $ 9,850 | | Yasmin will engage with the East African community and broader diaspora community in Minnesota to explore the rituals and symbols of womanhood and create a photo project; she will share the body of work through an exhibit and photo book. |
Jacob Yeates, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Yeates will create a new series of drawings for public exhibition and organize an accompanying panel discussion reflecting on themes of climate inequity and ecoauthoritarianism. |
Alison Young, Saint Paul | $ 10,000 | | Young will create four audio narratives that combine found sound from Minnesota state parks with personal essay. She will engage children, adults, and seniors with disabilities in greater Minnesota with her art form of "hearing our natural world". |
Amanda L. Young, Stillwater | $ 9,300 | | Young will develop her skills as a storyteller and event curator in collaboration with Indigenous culture bearers by engaging underserved populations and people in Minnesota with Indigenous storytelling and song sharing events. |
Kyle G. Young, Saint Cloud | $ 10,000 | | Young will transcribe ninetheenth-century banjo music for modern banjo tunings. In the process, he will educate others about the African American origins of the music, which has played a pivotal role in shaping American music for over a century. |
Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Yousefzadeh will develop and premiere I Am Gordafarid, a piece exploring the myth of Gordafarid in the Shahnameh, the ancient Persian art of naqqali, and the warrior women in her family. |
Cameron A. Zebrun, Minneapolis | $ 10,000 | | Zebrun will produce a body of abstract collage based artwork, that examines landscape subject matter with multiple perspectives, for exhibitions in greater Minnesota. |
