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CMAB Awards Legacy Grants to Nineteen Regional Organizations

The Central Minnesota Arts Board (CMAB), at their December 2011 meeting, awarded nineteen Arts and Cultural Heritage (Legacy) Project Grants totaling $81,349.

Three main criteria are used to evaluate applications: Artistic quality and merit; ability of the organization to carry out the proposal; and the artistic needs of the community.

Funding for CMAB Arts and Cultural Heritage (Legacy) Project Grants are provided through appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the state’s general fund, and its arts & cultural heritage fund that was created by the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. Arts & Cultural Heritage funds must be used for arts & arts access, arts education, and arts & cultural heritage as required by law.

Nineteen organizations received the following grants:
• Buffalo Community Orchestra, $4,519, “The Beautiful Blue Danube” Orchestra Concert that will span music from societies along the river in Austria, through Czechoslovakia, and into Hungary on March 10, 2012 at the Buffalo High School Performing Arts Center, Buffalo MN. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Conductor Erik Rohde will describe the musical themes with the concert following at 7:00 p.m.
• Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, $5,000, for The Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio concert and residency. The Trio will provide an educational and informative musical experience for several other audiences of varying ages and levels at Pine Meadow Elementary School in Sartell, a class at Whitney Senior Center, master classes at the College of St. Benedict, and a free Family Concert scheduled for January 7, 2012 at the St. Cloud Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
• Command Performance Choirs, $4,364, to conduct a pre-tour concert open to the community in conjunction with, and at, the Boys and Girls Club of Elk River on March 24, 2012. All six choirs will perform a repertoire of music suitable for a broad audience of all ages.
• Elk River Area Arts Alliance, $5,000, to provide a performance series that includes Mu Daiko, a Japanese Taiko drumming ensemble; the premier of An Elk River Christmas Carol, written by playwright and author Britt Aamodt; Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues with Randy Sabien; Home Free, a cappella group; and the Strings for Youth spring concert, an elementary and high school instructional program sponsored by the Alliance.
• General Federated Women’s Club of Delano, $3,570, for “Concerts in the Park”, a series of six concerts held in the gazebo at Central Park in Delano beginning 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings during July and August 2012.
• Great River Chorale, $4,105, for a collaborative holiday concert “A Star In The Night” between the Youth Chorale of Central Minnesota and the Cantabile Girls' Choir of SCSU held on December 17 and 18, 2011 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud.
• Great River Education Arts Theatre, $5,000, “The Pirates of Penzance”, a comedic light opera that features music by Gilbert and Sullivan, March 2, 2012 at the Paramount Theatre in St. Cloud.
• Inaccurate Vernacular, $4,900, for the film production of “The Dunsing Plan”. The story is a dark comedy about the Dunsing brothers who plot and scheme a way to regain their status, during the decline of their father’s business empire free at Pioneer Place Theatre on October 12, 2012.
• Minnesota Center Chorale, $2,110, for a February 2012 concert entitled “Broadway Valentine: Musical Theater's Greatest Choruses” at the St. Cloud Paramount Theatre. MCC is joined by ballroom dancers Paul Cotton and Lybbi LaBeau along with jazz musician Andrew Walesch in its celebration of America’s musical theater.
• Minnesota Dance Ensemble, $4,700, “Amalgamation” an innovative choreographic work to be presented at the Paramount Theatre on April 13, 2012.
• Paramount Arts Resource Trust, $4,113, a concert by the men's a capella group, Chanticleer, on Sunday, November 4th, 2012, at 4:00. After the concert, the 12 men will return to the stage for an informal question and answer session.
• St. Cloud Area All-Star Jazz Band, $4,700, HepCat Junction Concert and Clinic for area high school musicians and the St. Cloud Area All Star Jazz Band March 16, 2012 at the Paramount Theatre in St. Cloud.
• St. Cloud Municipal Band, $4,623, 2012 Music Outreach series bringing live band music, Good Shepherd and Country Manor Nursing Homes on January 23rd and 30th, as well as a regional high school in March 2012.
• St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, $5,000, "A Shakespeare Celebration," that will include the music of Sergei Prokofiev, P.I Tchaikovsky and Leonard Bernstein on March 31, 2012, at 7:30 pm in Ritsche Auditorium on the campus of St. Cloud State University.
• St. John’s Boys Choir, $4,000, “A Ceremony of Carols” featuring more than 80 current and former members of The St. John's Boys' Choir and a professional orchestra on December 16, 2011 at the Cathedral of St. Mary in St. Cloud.
• St. John’s University Fine Arts, $4,000, Project Trio residency & performance. The residency will include two classes with undergraduate students, two workshops, one with Prairie Lakes Youth Detention Facility and one with Oak Ridge Elementary in Sartell, a performance in Saint Raphael Hall with a public performance on March 23 at Saint John’s University.
• Stearns History Museum, $5,000 for a traveling art exhibit, "Momentum," opening in April of 2012 featuring the art of 15 emerging national artists ages 16-25 with disabilities whose art was selected in a juried exhibition. The exhibit is from VSA: The International Organization on Arts and Disability in coordination with the Smithsonian Institute.
• Visual Arts Minnesota, $4,445, Series of art exhibits: the 33rd Annual High School Art Exhibition and Competition, Shakespeare All Age Art Show and West Side Story All Age Art Show from March - May, 2012, in St. Cloud.
• Youth Chorale of Central MN, $2,200, “Youth Sing Out” a collaborative choral concert featuring over 200+ youth from the Youth Chorale, St. John's Boys' Choir, and Cantabile Girls' Choir on May 6, 2012 at the Sauk Rapids-Rice Performing Arts Center in Sauk Rapids.

The CMAB, one of eleven regional art councils in the State of Minnesota, whose purpose is to support and promote art appreciation throughout region 7W, consisting of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns and Wright counties.

For more information about the Central MN Arts Board grant opportunities and services go to
www.centralmnartsboard.org or call the office at 320-968-4290 or toll free at 1-866-345-7140.

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