SEMAC awards $143K in grants to school residencies, artists in SE Minnesota

By KAALTV
SEMAC

(ABC 6 News) – The Board of Directors of the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) has awarded 36 grants to school residencies and emerging and advancing artists throughout southeastern Minnesota.

The grants will total $143,810 and will include four school residency grants for $11,810, fourteen emerging artists grants for $42,000, and eighteen advancing artist grants for $90,000.

SEMAC is the State Arts Board-designated granting authority for local/regional arts producing and sponsoring organizations and disburses funds allocated for this purpose by the Minnesota State Legislature.  The SEMAC region includes the counties of Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona.

Grants were awarded to the following below:

Dodge County

  • Danielle Barck received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Art vs Work – Just Another Saturday.
  • Triton Public Schools received a $2,810 School Residency Grant for Sarah Curtiss Guest Flute Residency

Fillmore County

  • Delia Bell received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Exploring Ceramic Slab Vessels.
  • Paul Brokken received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Landscapes Inspired by Southeast MN.
  • Livingstone Carver received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for My Foray Into Creating Public Art.
  • Barbara Jeffers received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Norway – From the ground up.
  • Lane Powell received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Back End Of It (MN Funk Style Music).
  • Michael Seiler received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Marketing Training Program for Artists.
  • Fillmore Central Schools received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Big Band Bash at Fillmore Central High School

Freeborn County

  • Jacob “The Fox” Schlichter received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Wildlife of Southern Minnesota.

Goodhue County

  • Heidi Bacon received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Trickle Down Effect – Watersheds.

Houston County

  • Mary Denzer received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Poetry Bookmaking with Original Linocuts.

Olmsted County

  • Carrie Arnold received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Produce Plein Air with Cultural Textiles.
  • Willow Gentile received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Pleinair Paint Historic SE MN Libraries.
  • Kait Glaswell received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Bodies of Earth (by Bicycle).
  • Lydia Hansen received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Sensory Sculpture Garden.
  • Joe Havoc received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Only Way Out is Through.
  • David Kassler received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Composer and Poets Collaboration Recital.
  • Vivian Lark received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Song EP and One Music Video.
  • Greg LeGette received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for “Human”.
  • Alexander Ortberg received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Rock Band with an Orchestra.
  • Maggie Panetta received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Zumbro River Underpass Mural.
  • Samantha Reiter received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Beyond the Surface: Biological Art of MN.
  • Sydney Swanson received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Elemental Body – a dance film.
  • Hannah Lou Woods received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Marketing Costs for my EP Release.
  • Gage Elementary School received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Mosaics by Many Hands
  • Rochester Alternative Learning Center received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Improvisation with Created Instruments and Piano

Rice County

  • Kent McInnis Jr received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Interference: Reimagining Pastorals.

Steele County

  • Kathryn Wood received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for “Wings and Things” in Watercolor.

Wabasha County

  • Sue Mundy received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Public Places are Sacred Spaces.

Winona County

  • “Doctor Bob” Armstrong received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Flotsam, Adventures on the Mississippi.
  • Gina Favano received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Back Channel Radio.
  • Harrison McCormick received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Post-Production for a Short Film.
  • Kathleen Kenney Peterson received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Return Engagement, theatre production.
  • Jamie Schwaba received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for The Art of Melody.
  • Kristen Young received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Winona Estro-Jam.