Recent SEMAC Grant Awards
On September 19, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) awarded one arts management training grant for $2,500 and $90,000 in general operating support grants to eighteen arts organizations.
Listed by county, these grants were awarded to the following arts organizations.
Dodge County
- Mantorville Art Guild received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Facilities & Maintenance.
- Mantorville Theatre Company received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
Freeborn County
- Albert Lea Community Band received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
Goodhue County
- Bells of the Bluffs Handbell Ensemble received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- I Cantanti Chamber Choirs received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Red Wing Arts received a $2,500 Arts Management Training grant for Cultural Competency Training.
Houston County
- Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
Olmsted County
- Children’s Dance Theatre received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Med City Arts Festival received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
- Rochester Area Handbells received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Rochester Chamber Music Society received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Rochester Community Band received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Rochester Male Chorus received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Rochester Pops Orchestra received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Equipment & Technology.
- Rochester Repertory Theatre Company received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Sing Out Loud received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Sweet Adelines Zumbro Valley Chorus received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
Winona County
- Frozen River Film Festival received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Winona Arts Center received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
On August 15, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) awarded 17 individual artist grants for a total of $67,000 in funding to applicants throughout southeastern Minnesota. This included nine emerging artists and eight advancing artists.
Grants for original work were awarded to the following individuals, listed by county.
Freeborn County
- Susanne Crane, Albert Lea, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Low Hanging Fruit Poetry Book.
Goodhue County
- Brian Johnson, Cannon Falls, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for 4 Part Concert Series (so it goes).
Houston County
- Melissa Wray, Caledonia, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Homecoming: A Poetry & Quilt Project.
Olmsted County
- Kevin Dobbe, Rochester, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for New media opera Phase 2 development.
- Richard Swanson, Rochester, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Photo Essay: Anti-Intellectualism in MN.
- Tianyao Xie, Rochester, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Classical Piano & Chinese Art Music.
- Alexis Zaccariello, Rochester, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Experimenting with Raku Fired Pottery.
Rice County
- J C Sanford, Northfield, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for First Annual Northfield Jazz Festival.
- Sandra Sargent, Faribault, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Recentering, Revisioning, Returning.
Steele County
- Andi Lynn Arnold, Owatonna, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for In the Garden of Life, Light & Growth.
Winona County
- Timothy Ahrens, Altura, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Farming for Food.
- Lisa Becker, Saint Charles, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Merging Video Arts with Photography.
- Ken McCullough, Winona, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
- Michael Munson, Winona, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Perihelion Day.
- Sunny Nahrgang, Winona, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Continuing Art After Schooling.
- Rachael Nunemacher, Saint Charles, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Flash Flood.
- Taliesin Nyala, Winona, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Handmade Wooden Dedication Gifts.
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