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 |