Northern Arts News
April 2020
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Note from the Executive Director:
To the singer/songwriters, musicians, writers, and visual artists of all kinds who are finding ways to inspire us and keep our communities vibrant- thank you!
From music to painting to poetry to jingle dress dancing to sewing and sharing instructions for making cloth masks to protect us- we see you. We hear you. And we will continue to do our best to serve and support you.
-Laura Seter
Our office doors may be closed yet our communication remains open!
If you need support, questions or assistance – call 218-751-5447 / 800-275-5447 or email
staff@r2arts.org
Individual Staff Contacts:
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Join our team!
Region 2 Arts Council has an active and engaged board of directors. We are currently seeking new board members from Mahnomen and Hubbard Counties, with potential additional openings in May. New board member terms begin in late summer/early fall 2020 and will end in June, 2022. Please contact
laura@r2arts.org
if you'd like more information on being a part of our dynamic team.
Grant Reviews:
Due to Covid-19 concerns, our board meetings and grant reviews are currently only accessible online
via
Zoom
April 20
Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant Review
for Organizations
4:30 p.m. grant review (with the possibility of adding an additional review date in response to the volume of grant applications).
Executive Committee Members
Chair:
Laura Grisamore - Hubbard County
Vice Chair:
Rebecca Colebank - Clearwater County
Treasurer:
Shannon Lucas-Westrum - Beltrami County
Secretary:
Deb Carlson - Lake of the Woods County
Board Members
:
Pam Janssen - Clearwater County
Gayle Gish - Mahnomen County
Michael Schlemper - Beltrami County
CT Marhula - Lake of the Woods County
vacant - Mahnomen County
vacant - Hubbard County
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Council Awards Two $5000
Anishinaabe Arts Initiative
Artist Fellowships to
Duane Goodwin
and
Nedahness Greene
On April 1, 2020, members of the Anishinabe Arts Initiative Council awarded two AAI Artist Fellowships:
Region 2 Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Fellow: Duane "Dewey" Goodwin (White Earth Band of Ojibwe).
Goodwin is a sculpture artist residing in Beltrami County.
Region 2/Five Wings Anishinaabe Arts Intiative Fellow: Nedahness Rose Greene (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe).
Greene is an art photographer residing in Cass County.
Miigwech
to each Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Fellowship Applicant. Your creativity, artistic excellence, and dedication to art and community is powerful!
to
Five Wings Arts Council
for sharing your funding resources with our Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Council, resulting in our ability to award two grants this year.
to the McKnight Foundation for your generous support of individual artists through the Regional Arts Council system.
to our Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Council, comprised of Native American artists and arts appreciators from the counties served by the AAI grant programs:
Council Members
Delana Smith (Red Lake Band) … Red Lake
Genny Lowry (Leech Lake Band) …Bemidji
Bernice Mitchell-Diver (Leech Lake Band) … Cass Lake
Debra Warren (White Earth Band) … Bemidji
Mary Ringhand (Red Lake Band) … Ponemah
David B. White (Fort Peck) … Ponemah
Larry Vanwert (Red Lake Band) … Redby
Kent Estey (White Earth Band) ... Naytahwaush
Paula Littlewolf (White Earth Band) ... Mahnomen
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R2AC Covid-19 Statement
This is a fast-changing landscape and we know many of you are experiencing direct impacts due to COVID-19. To that extent, we now have a
COVID-19 Resource page
on our website at
r2arts.org
Our goal is to connect artists and arts organizations to vital support systems that may help mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on work and livelihoods grounded in the arts.
In response to these uncertain times, please help us support ongoing arts advocacy initiatives by
tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the arts:
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Region 2 Arts Council awards Young Artist Grants
On March 9, 2020 a review panel consisting of community panelists and Region 2 Arts Council Board Members awarded $4,200 through the Young Artist Grant program. This grant is designed for 8 th -12th grade students who have a strong interest in the arts and reside in Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods or Mahnomen counties. Students can apply for up to $600 to cover costs associated with arts instruction/mentorship, arts classes/camps/workshops in the state of Minnesota.
Grant recipients included:
David Aguilera of Tenstrike
was awarded $600 to study woodworking with local woodworking artist,Tim Evje.
Josibeth Aguilera of Tenstrike
was awarded $600 to study mixed media painting techniques with visual artist Terry Honstead.
Noelle Aguilera of Tenstrike
was awarded $600 to study advanced Cavandoli Knotting techniques with fiber artist Karen Lisa Forbes.
D’Shel Bailey of Red Lake
was awarded $600 to study beadwork with a mentor artist.
John G. Kirk of Bemidji
was awarded $600 to study performance techniques for trombone with musician and music instructor, Ryan Webber.
Joza Paulson of Bemidji
was awarded $600 to attend a Bemidji Woodcarvers’ workshop with Alec Lacasse, and mentor with woodcarver Les Sanders.
Timothy Pinkerton of Bemidji
was awarded $600 to study violin techniques for performance of Ysaÿe Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin with Dr. Eric Olson.
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Region 2 Arts Council awards Community Arts Support Grants
On March 16, 2020 the Region 2 Arts Council Board of Directors awarded $49,000 through the Community Arts Support Grant program. This grant is designed to provide a measure of funding stability in the form of operational support for 501(c)3 arts organizations serving our communities in Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen Counties. This is a two-year award. Annual award amounts listed below are based on the granted organization’s averaged expenses for the past two fiscal years.
Bagley Area Arts Collaborative
was awarded $4,000. (Clearwater County)
Bemidji Chorale
was awarded $3,000. (Beltrami County)
Bemidji Community Theater
was awarded $7,000. (Beltrami County)
Bemidji Sculpture Walk
was awarded $4,000. (Beltrami County)
Bemidji Symphony Orchestra
was awarded $7,000. (Beltrami County)
Heartland Arts
was awarded $4,000. (Hubbard County)
Lake of the Woods Art Guild
was awarded $3,000. (Lake of the Woods County)
Nemeth Art Center
was awarded $6,000. (Hubbard County)
Northern Artist Association
was awarded $5,000. (Beltrami County)
Northern Light Opera Company
was awarded $6,000. (Hubbard County)
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Region 2 Arts Council serves artists and communities in Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties.
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*Deadline Extended
to May 1, 2020
Deadline: May 1, 2020 by 11:45 pm
Maximum Award: $6,000
(20% Cash Match required; 25% Match on equipment purchases)
Arts Access Grants for Small Towns can support creation, production, and presentation of high-quality arts activities, as well as projects that help overcome barriers to accessing high-quality arts activities, and projects that help instill the arts into the community and public life in our region. Arts activities proposed for funding must be accessible by the public, have a strong community component, and
must benefit the residents of Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, or Mahnomen Counties.
These grants are open specifically to non-profits, schools, government or tribal offices, or groups with a fiscal sponsor, located in towns with a population under 2,000.
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Our grant applications are
available online approximately one month before the deadline date.
Keep in mind that there are many pieces of the grant you can begin to work on before the grant application is available. Call or visit us with any questions, concerns, or support needs.
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Artist Initiative Grants
Minnesota State Arts Board's Artist Initiative grant program is designed to support and assist professional Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging artistic development, nurturing artistic creativity, and recognizing the contributions of individual artists to the creative environment of the state of Minnesota.
Grants will be awarded for projects that will enhance or expand the applicant's artistic skills or process, and advance the applicant's career by helping the artist generate greater visibility with and exposure to potential audiences.
Literary Arts and Performing Arts application deadline is
April 24
Visual Arts deadline application is
June 26
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Region 2 Arts Council staff are available
Monday through Friday,
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Contact us via email, Facebook messenger, or phone.
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April 14
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Grab a drink of your choice and join us online. No formal agenda, only good times, good friends, good chats!
OR (because rural broadband...):
Call-in number - 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 350 336 000
Feel free to invite friends!
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The North Beach Writer's Retreat is still accepting applications for summer 2020, in hopes that they can go forward and that COVID -19 has abated.
If it has not abated by May, they will re-assess.
Offering several genres of writer's retreats, workshops, and online classes throughout the summer.
Poetry Retreat
June 2 - 6
Memoir Retreat
June 23 - 27
Multiple Genres Retreat
August 9 - 13
Park Rapids, Minnesota
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The conference offers five intensive week-long writing workshops (each capped at 12 participants) as well as a craft talk each morning and a reading each evening by a faculty member.
Participants sign up for one workshop led by one faculty member for the duration of the conference.
This summer, the conference organizers will be designing a virtual experience for each element of the conference.
June 22 - 26
Bemidji State University
Bemidji
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Bagley's 33rd Annual Art in the Park. Come to the Bagley City Park and join in on the fun. Rain or shine. Many local artists with a wide variety of items. Food from local non-profit vendors will be available during the day.
July 11
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Opening in the Kaul Gallery, the photography of RJ Kern in “The Unchosen Ones,” will be available to viewers
online
and to passers-by from April 3 through May 30, 2020. Kern explains, “One isn’t born a winner or loser, but a chooser.” This is the theme explored in a series of portraits taken behind the scenes at Minnesota county fairs in 2016.
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Watermark Art Center
invites visitors to enjoy their virtual tours; including
Wezhichigewaad,
recent works by master bead artist Thomas Stillday (Red Lake Nation) and the 2020 High School Invitational.
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APPLICATION NOW OPEN FOR 20 MINI-GRANTS for $500 EACH
Forecast asked artists how they can best help them and their communities NOW. In response, they reallocated $10,000 of their own resources to quickly provide
mini-grants to 20 public artists
to safely create and share messages of hope within their communities.
Deadline: 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 8.
"The goal is to fund artists so they can impact their communities now!" - Forecast Public Art
The application process was designed to be simple. Don't delay; apply today!
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The Bemidji Area Arts Endowment (BAAE), a component fund of the Northwest Minnesota Foundation, supports the mission of the BAAE, which is to "create a community in which the arts flourish and enhance our lives."
Schools, nonprofit groups, or arts organizations in the Bemidji Area may request a grant up to $1,500 from the BAAE Arts Project Grant fund to produce an arts event, put on a workshop, develop your arts organization, sponsor touring arts events, sponsor an artist in residence, etc. Applicants that are not schools or 501(c) 3 organizations must use a fiscal agent.
Each year the fund provides scholarships for young people from the Bemidji area, ages 8-15, to study violin, viola, cello or bass, including but not limited to costs for lessons, training, and instrument rental. Two $250 scholarships will be awarded.
The deadline to submit an application for funding is
April 9
Contact Chris at 218- 759-2057 or 800-659-7859 for information,
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Northern Plains Summer Art Institute
NPSAI is a two-week intensive art program for 12 Native American high school students from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin seeking an art education that mixes fundamentals in art and a connection to their cultural identity. The program is free for all who attend, which will include housing, meals, coursework and all art supplies are provided with the program.
The Institute is
June 14 - 26, 2020
The deadline for application is
April 1, 2020
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Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships
Fellowships for emerging artists.
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COVID-19 relief options for artists, non-profits, and organizations HERE:
I
ncluding information on the t
he
Personal Emergency Relief Fund
made to help artists in Minnesota recover from personal emergencies by helping pay an unanticipated, emergency expense. In response to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, this
includes
lost income due to the cancellation of a specific, scheduled gig or opportunity (i.e. commissions, performances, contracts) due to Coronavirus/COVID-19 precautionary measures.
Artists can request up to $500 to compensate for cancelled work that was scheduled and lost.
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Request for Proposals
Indigenous Peoples and Lands Sculpture Art Opportunity
One artist will be commissioned to create the sculpture that will be sited at a Mississippi River Park, located at the NE corner of the intersections of Pokegama Avenue and SE 1st Street. The Arts and Culture Commission projects will consist of one sculpture with a concentration on Indigenous Peoples and lands. Fifteen miles west of Grand Rapids lies the edge of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe reservation. The commission believes that history and public art could amplify and highlight the culture, voices, and stories of Native Americans including tribal citizens – past, present, and future.
This Request for Qualifications is for the one sculpture project related to the concept of Indigenous Peoples and Lands.
Pavement Art Public Art Opportunity
This year the Arts and Culture Commission will commission temporary pavement art that will last two to four years and will highlight storm and sanitary sewer catch basins/manholes and enhance traditional crosswalks and future curb “bump outs.” The pavement art should connect in some thematic way to the Sculptures commissioned in 2019. One artist will be commissioned to create the pavement art.
This Request for Qualifications is for the Pavement Art related to the concept of Indigenous Peoples and Lands.
Grand Rapids, MN
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Seeking Local White Earth submissions, open to all ages! Three pieces maximum
Submissions Due April 30, 2020
or
Jamison Nessman
or via mail
White Earth Health,
attn. Changing Our Paths
24246 Crane Road
White Earth, MN 58591
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6 x 6 x 2020:
Call for Entries
Each summer Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s 6x6 exhibition brings together thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international & local artists, designers, youth and YOU. Each artist may enter up to three artworks of any medium (2D or 3D).
Extended deadline for entries:
April 25
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Bemidji – First City of Arts Studio Cruise 2020
Calling all artists with studios within a 40 mile radius of Bemidji, Minnesota, after a two year hiatus, applications are now being accepted. This, the 11th year for the ‘Cruise’, is a working studio event which provides an opportunity for artists to invite the public into their studios to showcase their art and craft.
Studio Cruise dates are
October 16, 17 & 18, 2020
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Deadline for all applications must be postmarked by
April 15
Bemidji, MN
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Granite Falls City Artist-in-Residence
The City of Granite Falls and the Department of Public Transformation have launched the Granite Falls City Artist in Residence (CAIR) program - the first of its kind in a town of our size in the country - fostering cultural work that sits at the intersection of civic, social, and place-based practice in a rural setting. We are currently accepting applications from interested local, regional, and national artists to be embedded in the City of Granite Falls (pop. 2,734) for 6-12 months to design and implement arts and cultural strategies to increase civic participation and community engagement in City policy-making, planning and public processes.
Applications are due by
April 26th
at 11:59 pm
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Call for Entries: Sculpture Trail
The City of Park Rapids and Park Rapids Arts and Culture Advisory Commission are accepting entries for the Park Rapids Sculpture Trail.
Artists will be notified of selection committee results by May 15 and will have until May 27 to install their works. Artists receive a $350 honorarium during installation and $150 during sculpture removal.
The entry form is available by calling City Planner Andrew Mack at 218-732-3163 or by
e-mailing him.
Entry deadline is
April 30
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Gallery North and Northern Artist Association
challenge area artists to develop a work of art, poetry, music, writing, photography, or work of art in any genre around the theme “Reflections." One requirement of the artwork is that it reflect a positivity of spirit in these unknown times. The artwork will be featured in an exhibition of this work. Please direct all questions to Mary Knox-Johnson:
moxnk@paulbunyan.net
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In the Age of “social distancing” the
North Dakota Museum of Art
invites the residents of the Northern Plains and beyond to participate in an experimental exhibition entitled Art in Isolation. This call is open to everyone regardless of age or level of art making. The subject can be how you are dealing/not dealing with the current social, political and health situation facing the world today. Current Deadline to submit: April 20, 2020. May be extended.
The NDMOA is asking for images of your work sent via email to
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Send submissions for our May newsletter by April 25 to:
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