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

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Jonathan David Martin, Zoey Martinson, and Lianne Arnold (Smoke and Mirrors Collaborative)

2017
Theater
New York City
Travel and Study
$3,000
Jonathan David Martin, Zoey Martinson, and Lianne Arnold will travel to Berlin, Germany as part of the Smoke and Mirrors Collaborative to conduct research and develop relationships with potential collaborators for a new multimedia work of performance.
Theater

Benjamin May

2017
Film
Minnesota
Minnesota Film Production
$30,000

Benjamin May received $30,000 in support of Wet House. Wet House documents life in Minneapolis' Wet House, where chronic alcoholics live, are cared for, are allowed to drink.

Film
Benjamin May

Media Impact Funders

2017
Film
Other
General Program
$2,000
Media Impact Funders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received $2,000 over two years for membership in 2017 and 2018.
Film

Kelley Meister

2017
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
The artist will travel to former nuclear testing former nuclear testing and development sites in Nevada and New Mexico to foster a deeper understanding of what it is to live in the nuclear age. This will serve as research for the artist's hand-drawn animation, “Now I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”
Visual Arts

Minnesota Council on Foundations

2017
Misc
Minnesota
General Program
$15,200
Minnesota Council on Foundations, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $15,200 over two years for membership in 2017 and 2018.
Misc

Moon Molson

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Moon Molson received $30,000 in support of Hyper/Space. After years of taking psychiatric medication, Shawn, a Black Millennial living in Spanish Harlem, decides to cease his treatment, questioning whether his neurological disorder even exists. Hyper/Space tracks the ensuing mania that awakens Shawn's burning need to solve the mystery of why his mother abandoned him as a child and committed suicide halfway across the country.
Film

Ekwa Msangi

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Ekwa Msangi received $30,000, in support of Farewell Amor (working title). After 17 years in exile, Walter finally reunites with his wife and daughter and they quickly discover how the years of separation have turned them into absolute strangers. Farewell Amor is their journey to overcome the personal and political hurdles amongst them and the muscle memory of dance that helps them find their way back “home.”
Film

National Performance Network

2017
Multi-disciplinary
Other
General Program
$5,000
National Performance Network, including the Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN), New Orleans, Louisiana, received $5,000 to support its regional Minneapolis convening, June 12-14, 2017.
Multi-disciplinary

Nicholas Nerburn

2017
Film
Minnesota
Minnesota Film Production
$29,764
Nicholas Nerburn received $29,764 in support of The Great American Think-Off. This documentary film is centered on a public philosophy contest held every year in New York Mills, Minnesota, population 1,199. Four “thinkers” who have submitted essays on an agreed-upon philosophical question are brought to New York Mills, where they are invited to make their arguments before the town, who chooses a “Great American Thinker” by vote in their elementary school’s gym.
Film
Nik Nerburn

Laura Ortman

2017
Music
New York City
Fellowship for Composers and Sound Artists
$20,000

Laura Ortman, New York City, received $20,000 to support the creation of a new collaborative collage, Indigenous New York City Walking Soundtrack, fusing spoken word, song, din, movement, air, whispers and atmosphere, capturing a fluctuating and personal Native American New York experience. She will use the mobile recording unit (MbRU) that she constructed to capture the visceral and atmospheric recordings. Ortman will also travel and perform works from her new solo album My Soul Remainer, recorded by Martin Bis, in the Southwest, California and the East Coast.

Music

Maia Cruz Palileo

2017
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$3,157
The artist will live and study in Chicago, IL to study the Dean C. Worcester Collection of Philippine Photographs, Damián Domingo’s Costume Album, and the book “El folk-lore Filipino” by Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino in the Newberry Library’s extensive Philippine Collection—images from the early years of imperial American conquest of Filipinos.
Visual Arts

Philanthropy New York

2017
Misc
New York City
General Program
$2,400
Philanthropy New York, New York City, received $2,400 over two years for membership in 2017 and 2018.
Misc

Playwrights' Center, Inc.

2017
Theater
Minnesota
General Program
$112,000
Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $112,000 over two years for its Many Voices fellowship and mentorship program in 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Theater

Katarzyna Plazinska

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Katarzyna Plazinska received $30,000 in support of False Positive. False Positive is the story of David, a successful professional, who undergoes a crisis around his commodified existence. A mysterious disaster helps him confront the vast emptiness around him.
Film

Iva Radivojevic

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Iva Radivojevic received $30,000 in support of Aleph. Aleph is a magical cinematic journey with ten characters that steer us from one to the other and to ten different locations around the world. Their collected stories serve as pieces of a splintered labyrinth that leads us to an understanding of the unimaginable universe, where all of human experience resides: the Aleph.
Film

Rashanna Rashied-Walker

2017
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$4,750
The artist will travel to Iceland to conduct an experiential investigation into its varied examples of weather. She will have an artist residency in western Iceland and travel to the eastern fjords to experience its climate diversity.
Visual Arts

Anne Rynearson

2017
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,080
The artist will study printmaking techniques at the Bentlage Printmaking Association at the Kloster Bentlage in Rheine, Germany to strengthen her printmaking skills and inform new ways to approach her studio process. She will also visit and conduct related research in Hengelo, Netherlands, and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Visual Arts

Rachel Elizabeth Seed

2017
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$30,000
Rachel Elizabeth Seed received $30,000 in support of A Photographic Memory. In A Photographic Memory, a daughter attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast audio-visual archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and others, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.
Film

Davu Seru

2017
Music
Minnesota
Fellowship for Composers and Sound Artists
$20,000
Davu Seru, Minnesota, received $20,000 to support the debut recording of works fusing blues, African polyrhythm, and chorale-like arrangements for his new sextet, No Territory Band. Seru will continue development of his work-in-progress Dead King Mother with Zeitgeist Ensemble and compose and present public workshops with Scratch Music group (inspired by Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Music Orchestra) at Studio Z.
Music

Kavita Shah

2017
Music
New York City
Travel and Study
$5,000
The artist will travel to São Vicente, Cape Verde to conduct in-depth studies into Cape Verdean traditional musical forms and to conduct ethnographic research about the late singer Cesária Évora and the cultural implications of her music.
Music