Grantees All Years

Blue Lotus: new music as a vehicle for social activism.

Gwen Laster/New Muse 4tet

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

An original music recording inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and devoted to social activism. Violinist Gwen Laster leads New Muse 4tet string quartet in performing her original works that include her commissioned piece "Black Lives Matter Suite" motivated by the Sandra Bland tragedy. Read More

Ghost of Woody Guthrie

Halker, Bucky

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

On "The Ghost of Woody Guthrie" (a double CD), songwriter, performer, and scholar Bucky Halker draws on years of researching Guthrie and performing his songs to create a distinct, honest, unflinching homage to Guthrie’s spirit, music, and legacy. Read More

New Generation Arts Lab

Halleckson, Lindsy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

New Generation Arts Lab, a series of open studio events encouraged creativity, increased participation in the arts, and developed dialogue and connections within the Twin Cities community through activities that are unexpected, fun, and interactive. Read More

Art Changing the View

Hamilton, Pam

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Art Changing the View transformed an empty storefront into a public art exhibit in the village of Romeoville, Illinois. The project has brought a bright spot of art to a community otherwise lacking in visual art. Read More

LOTS – a 16mm documentary film

Hanley, Sean

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

LOTS is a film-portrait of the landscape of Brooklyn during the millennia from the last Ice Age to the present. The film examines the area’s vacant lots, urban farms, brownfields, and public spaces in order to witness how land transforms over time. Read More

The Canol Doc Project

Hannah Johnston

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

In July 2017, five women set out on a twelve-day bikepacking trip to document the historic significance and environmental impact of the Canol Road and Pipeline in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Read More

The Fall (2014)

Hanukai, Simón

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A multi-media theater performance that examines the world's relationship to the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, as we approach its 25th anniversary on November 9th, 2014. Read More

DATAPRINT

Hanukai, Simón

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

DATAPRINT is an interactive multimedia installation and performance that blends technology and the arts into a participatory experience, which aims to spur the dialogue about data privacy in our increasingly data-driven society. Read More

A Gathering of Strangers: the Making of The Merchant of Venice

Hardin, Ted

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

A Gathering of Strangers—the Making of the Merchant in Venice chronicles the creation of and historical circumstances behind Compagnia de’ Colombari’s 2016 production of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in the Venetian Ghetto where the word originated and where Shakespeare set the play's story. Read More

The Disappearing Drumlin

Harries, Mags

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Drone video map projected onto black sheep skin. Waves lap the shores of Sheep Island. Once 25 acres, the island is now just a few acres in size due to erosion from the waves. Read More