Region 2 Arts Council awards Arts Access Grants

On February 12, 2018 the Region 2 Arts Council Board of Directors awarded $54,014 through their Arts Access Grant program, designed to support access to high-quality arts activities, and projects that help instill the arts into the community and public life in our region.

The grant recipients included:

Bemidji Community Theater received $4,977 to produce the children’s musical The Elves and the Shoemaker on April 6 – 13, 2018. (Beltrami County)

Bemidji Contra Dance was awarded $2,759 to hold a series of musicians' and callers' workshops and evening contra dances from July to October 2018. (Beltrami County)

Bemidji State University Music Department was awarded $4,019 to host renowned Latvian composer, Ēriks Ešenvalds, to host a three-day residency at BSU, culminating in a High School Choral festival concert on March 22 -24, 2018. (Beltrami County)

Bemidji Symphony Orchestra received $6,000 to perform a concert featuring violist Brett Deubner playing the American premiere of Max Wolpert's Viola Concerto No. 1, Giants, on October 7, 2018. (Beltrami County)

City of Bemidji Parks & Recreation was awarded $5,100 to host, in partnership with the Bemidji Community Theater, a summer Theater Day Camp for youth, June 4 – 15 2018. (Beltrami County)

City of Park Rapids Arts and Culture Advisory Commission received $6,000 to initiate a sculpture trail in the Red Bridge Park. Ribbon cutting is projected to be June 16, 2018. (Hubbard County)

Clearbrook-Gonvick Community Education was awarded $1,189 to bring Prairie Fire Children’s Theater to direct the play Tom Sawyer, for local performers from age seven to adult, as part of their Summer Recreation program. June 22 & 23, 2018. (Clearwater County)

Headwaters Music & Arts received $6,000 to host storyteller Laura Packer for a series of workshops and performances, with the goal of building bridges, finding voice and being heard, on May 11, June 1 & 2, 2018. (Beltrami County)

Indigenous Environmental Network was awarded $6,000 to host a week-long birch-bark canoe build at the Rail River Folk School, with experiential learning opportunities from novice to apprentice, and an open paddle experience with local artists to tell our unique Mississippi story, on July 14 – 22, 2018. (Beltrami County)

Nemeth Art Center received $2,323 to host an exhibition called White Earth Window, a collaboration by photographer Wayne Gudmundson and writer Anton Treuer, which reflects the Anishinaabe experience on the White Earth Reservation, from May 31 - July 28, 2018. (Hubbard County)

Nemeth Art Center was awarded $2,007 to host the exhibition titled, The Extraordinary Outdoors, curated by Tim Peterson, featuring the work of five Minnesota artists whose works depict dynamic visual explorations into nature, August 3 – September 29, 2018. (Hubbard County)

Park Rapids Downtown Business Association received $2,725 to provide free, live music with the 2nd Street Stage summer concert series. The ten events will be held on Thursday evenings from June 14 through Aug. 16, on the 2nd block of Main Avenue in Park Rapids. (Hubbard County)

Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council was awarded $4,915 to produce Art Leap 2018, a driving tour of artists' studios and other cultural destinations. September 22 & 23, 2018. (Hubbard County)