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Recent SEMAC Grant Awards

On March 21, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council awarded 36 grants for a total of $143,810 in funding to applicants throughout southeastern Minnesota. This included four school residency grants for $11,810, fourteen emerging artist grants for $42,000, and eighteen advancing artist grants for $90,000.

Listed by county, grants for original works were awarded to the following individuals, in addition to school residency grants..

Dodge County

  • Danielle Barck received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Art vs Work – Just Another Saturday.
  • Triton Public Schools received a $2,810 School Residency Grant for Sarah Curtiss’s Guest Flute Residency.

Fillmore County

  • Delia Bell received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Exploring Ceramic Slab Vessels.
  • Paul Brokken received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Landscapes Inspired by Southeast MN.
  • Livingstone Carver received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for My Foray Into Creating Public Art.
  • Barbara Jeffers received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Norway – From the ground up.
  • Lane Powell received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Back End Of It (MN Funk Style Music).
  • Michael Seiler received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Marketing Training Program for Artists.
  • Fillmore Central Schools received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Big Band Bash at Fillmore Central High School.

Freeborn County

  • Jacob “The Fox” Schlichter received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Wildlife of Southern Minnesota.

Goodhue County

  • Heidi Bacon received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Trickle Down Effect – Watersheds

Houston County

  • Mary Denzer received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Poetry Bookmaking with Original Linocuts.

Olmsted County

  • Carrie Arnold received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant to Produce Plein Air with Cultural Textiles.
  • Willow Gentile received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Pleinair Paint Historic SE MN Libraries.
  • Kait Glaswell received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Bodies of Earth (by Bicycle.
  • Lydia Hansen received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Sensory Sculpture Garden.
  • Joe Havoc received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for The Only Way Out is Through.
  • David Kassler received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Composer and Poets Collaboration Recital.
  • Vivian Lark received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Song EP and One Music Video.
  • Greg LeGette received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for “Human”.
  • Alexander Ortberg received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Rock Band with an Orchestra.
  • Maggie Panetta received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Zumbro River Underpass Mural.
  • Samantha Reiter received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Beyond the Surface: Biological Art of MN.
  • Sydney Swanson received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Elemental Body – a dance film.
  • Hannah Lou Woods received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Marketing Costs for my EP Release.
  • Gage Elementary School received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Mosaics by Many Hands.
  • Rochester Alternative Learning Center received a $3,000 School Residency Grant for Improvisation with Created Instruments and Piano

Rice County

  • .Kent McInnis Jr received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Interference: Reimagining Pastorals.

Steele County

  • Kathryn Wood received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for “Wings and Things” in Watercolor.

Wabasha County

  • Sue Mundy received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Public Places are Sacred Spaces

Winona County

  • “Doctor Bob” Armstrong received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Flotsam, Adventures on the Mississippi.
  • Gina Favano received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Back Channel Radio.
  • Harrison McCormick received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Post-Production for a Short Film.
  • Kathleen Kenney Peterson received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant grant for Return Engagement, theatre production.
  • Jamie Schwaba received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for The Art of Melody.
  • Kristen Young received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant grant for Winona Estro-Jam.
Earlier FY2023 Awards: 8/2022 thru 11/2022
FY2022 Awards: 8/2021 thru 5/2022
FY2021 Awards: 8/2020 thru 5/2021
FY2020 Awards: 8/2019 thru 5/2020		FY2019 Awards: 8/2018 thru 5/2019
FY2018 Awards: 8/2017 thru 5/2018
FY2017 Awards: 8/2016 thru 5/2017
FY2016 Awards: 8/2015 thru 5/2016
Recent SEMAC Grant Awards