Region 2 Arts Council Awards Season/Series Grants 2024
Region 2 Arts Council Awards $198,000 in Season/Series Arts Support Grants
The Region 2 Arts Council Board of Directors awarded $198,000.00 in Arts and Cultural Heritage Funds to 12 organizations following a community panel review of 14 Season/Series Arts Support Grant applications. Each awarded organization will offer two or more activities that benefit the people of Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, and/or Mahnomen counties. The funded arts activities must either be designed to remove barriers that audiences may have to accessing arts activities; develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts for all ages; represent the diverse ethnic and cultural arts traditions in our state; or specifically be designed to build bridges between Minnesotans through arts and culture.
The Lake of the Woods Art Guild in Baudette was awarded $18,000 in funds to provide a variety of arts activities including loom beading, beaded ornament making, basket making, greyscale drawing with colored pencils, mixed media, acrylic and watercolor painting workshops.
The Northern Light Opera Company in Park Rapids was awarded $18,000 in funds to provide arts activities including a large-scale summer musical, NLOKids Theater Camp, the NLOC Workbench New Play Workshop and the NLOC Workbench Filmmakers Intensive.
The Clear Waters Life Center, with locations in Clearbrook and Gonvick, was awarded $18,000 to offer community arts programming including youth theater arts and piano activities, art therapy for residents of their 12-Month Men's Recovery Program, and a workshop creating arts with concrete and welding techniques.
The Bemidji Symphony Orchestra in Bemidji was awarded $18,000 in funds to present 3 different styles of “pops concert” featuring music of the holiday season, Disney movie music, and an Elvis Presley inspired concert featuring a guest artist.
The Bagley Area Arts Collaborative in Bagley was awarded $18,000 in funds to provide arts workshops and activities in Alcohol Inks, Batik, Oil Painting, Pottery, Watercolor, Colored Pencil and Acrylic, Plein Air, Acrylics, Scandinavian Snowflakes, and Fun with Yupo Paper.
The Bemidji Community Theater in Bemidji was awarded $18,000 to pay stipends to vendors and contractors including directors, stage managers, accompanists, lighting and sound design, set construction, costuming, etc. for 6 different productions, as well as cover partial costs for the cast of Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr. to travel to the Twin Cities as part of a cultural enrichment activity.
The Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids was awarded $18,000 in funds to provide resources including materials, stipends, display, and promotions for a series of locally created exhibitions in May, a youth art show, community art workshops, and summer exhibitions by locally-tied and visiting artists.
The Mask & Rose Women’s Theater Collective in Puposky was awarded $18,000 in funds to produce the Tony Award winning musical Hadestown, collaborate with theater group Mixed Precipitation to present a walking picnic operetta, show a second season of modern dance films, and organize and host the Sister Song music festival.
The Armory Arts and Events Center in Park Rapids was awarded $18,000 in funds to provide arts activities including live concerts and art workshops featuring local artists
The Northern Artist Association in Bemidji was awarded $15,026 to offer free art classes in a variety of genres to young people and adults including plein air workshops featuring intermediate techniques for artists to gain advanced skills.
The Beltrami County Historical Society in Bemidji was awarded $12,075 in funds to provide a series of workshops and artist-in-residence programs led by women artists for the local community.
The Headwaters Music and Arts in Bemidji was awarded $8,899 to provide a series of introductory art, music, and creative writing experiences for adults.
Region 2 Arts Council Season/Series Arts Support Grants are made possible by the voters of Minnesota thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.