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Kayla Farrish, Spectacle, BAAD!/Pepatián Dance Your Future, 2018.

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Tofte Lake Center

2018
Theater
Minnesota
Arts Organization Grants
$31,000

Tofte Lake Center, Ely, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $31,000 for the Emerging Artists Program, supporting up to 13 NYC and MN-based early career/emerging artists (7 for a two-week residency and 6 artists for a one-week residency) of all disciplines to develop new work through residencies in 2019.

Theater

VocalEssence

2018
Music
Minnesota
Arts Organization Grants
$30,000

VocalEssence, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $30,000 for VocalEssence ReMix, supporting two early career choral composers for a year-long mentorship with an established composer to create two new choral works in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Music

Saymoukda Vongsay

2018
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
The artist will travel to Nong Khai, Thailand and Luang Prabang, Laos for 15 days. As an essential part of the refugee healing process, Vongsay will travel to Nongkhai, Thailand and Vientiane, Laos to retrace, reimagine, and record her family’s journey after the Secret War.
Literature

VSA Minnesota

2018
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Arts Organization Grants
$21,000

VSA Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $21,000 for the Early Career Artists with Disabilities Grant Program for six Minnesota artists with disabilities to create new work.

Visual Arts

Kayva Yang

2018
Dance
New York City
Travel and Study
$4,000
The artist will travel to Minneapolis/ St. Paul, MN, Madison, Wisconsin, and the Lost Forty Scientific and Natural Area (SNA) of the U.S. Department of Natural Resources located in Itasca County, MN for 23 days. Yang plans to conduct creative research into the biodiversity, geopolitical history, and record sensory and memory experiences at the Lost 40, 114 acres of old-pine growth within the Chippewa National Forest. Research of this unique borealis forest area will support her development of a new site-specific performance work.
Dance

Zeitgeist

2018
Music
Minnesota
Arts Organization Grants
$16,500

Zeitgeist, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $16,500 for ZEITGEIST/COMPOSER WORKSHOP, a 5-day workshop that will give three Minnesota-based early career artists a stipend and the opportunity to develop new musical ideas in collaboration with Zeitgeist in 2019.

Music

Zenon Dance Company

2018
Dance
Minnesota
Arts Organization Grants
$28,000

Zenon Dance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $28,000 to support the commissioning and performance of new dance works by three early career/emerging choreographers from Minnesota and/or New York in 2018–19.

Dance

600 HIGHWAYMEN

2017
Theater
New York City
General Program
$55,000
Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, New York, received $20,000 over two years as fiscal sponsor for 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Brooklyn, New York) in support of their development and production of The Total People. Brooklyn Arts Exchange was also awarded $35,000 as fiscal sponsor for 600 HIGHWAYMEN for a Jerome@Camargo residency.
Theater

Manal Abu-Shaheen

2017
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$4,500
The artist will travel to Lebanon to research the use of Western advertising and its relationship to the post conflict urban landscape in Beirut, Sidon, and Tyre, informing her current photographic work.
Visual Arts

Golnar Adili

2017
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$1,350
The artist will travel to the Josef Labadie Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she will draw inpiration from its conceptual and formal organization in order to further her own practice inspired by her late father's radical archive.
Visual Arts

Flavio Alves

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$20,000
Flavio Alves received $20,000 in support of The Garden Left Behind, a feature-length narrative film about a Mexican trans woman struggling to build a life for herself as an undocumented immigrant in New York City.
Film
Flavio Alves

Noel W Anderson

2017
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$3,223
The artist will travel to Paris, France and Berlin, Germany to study historical and contemporary trends in tapestry weaving, and installation art in order to further develop his body of woven tapestries based on contemporary political struggles of black men in America.
Visual Arts

Omar Bakry

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Omar Bakry received $30,000 in support of Abdo and Saneya. In Abdo and Saneya, a peasant Egyptian couple travel to the U.S. searching for a cure for infertility. They battle to survive in New York City without any language or notion of modern American life. Love helps them defy impossible odds, enduring the renegade homeless world to the hell kitchens of the restaurant business.
Film

Jackie Beckey

2017
Music
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
The artist will travel to Saskatoon, Canada to attend the John Arcand Fiddle Festival to research and learn Metis fiddle music. She will also travel to Gatineau, Canada to visit the Canadian Museum of History for its archive of Metis historical resources.
Music

Katie Bender

2017
Theater
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,200
The artist will travel to Austin and San Antonio, Texas and Mexico City to research the lives of survivors of the battle of the Alamo for a play with music about diverse people who survived inside the shifting borders of fledgling democracies.
Theater

Rafiq Bhatia

2017
Music
New York City
Fellowship for Composers and Sound Artists
$20,000
Rafiq Bhatia, New York City, received $20,000 to compose new work for his electroacoustic trio. He also plans to advance his compositional language through live performance, develop new solo material that deepens the integration of his work as a composer-performer and sound artist; and purchase hardware and acoustical treatments to assist with these activities.
Music

Nira Burstein

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Nira Burstein received $30,000 in support of Charm Circle. Catalyzed by her sister’s upcoming wedding, filmmaker Nira Burstein delves into the most significant partnership she’s been witness to thus far- that of her parents. Uri & Raya's relationship began as a whirlwind romance, beget three children, and currently, is in a state of constant chaos. Father and artist Uri juggles bills that are past due, a house falling apart, and a wife struggling for his attention.  A meditation on love and family, dreams and sacrifice,  Charm Circle explores what a marriage might be at the midnight hour.
Film
Nira Burstein

Camargo Foundation

2017
Multi-disciplinary
Other
General Program
$115,000

The Camargo Foundation received $115,000 in support of its ongoing programs, activities, and related administrative costs in 2017.

Multi-disciplinary

Todd Chandler

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Todd Chandler received $30,000 in support of UNTITLED SAFE SCHOOLS PROJECT. UNTITLED SAFE SCHOOLS PROJECT explores the landscape of 21st century school safety in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools.
Film

Winnie Cheung

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$7,000
Winnie Cheung received $7,000 in support of What If, a silent short dance film which reimagines the Christian myth of creation. After stumbling upon The Garden of Eden, The Fool discovers two mystical creatures that identify as neither Man nor Woman.
Film