2024 Awards
In the first four months of FY2024, SEMAC awarded a total of $209,500, including seventeen individual artists and 27 arts organizations, listed by county.
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
- Susanne Crane, Albert Lea, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for Low Hanging Fruit Poetry Book.
- Albert Lea Community Band received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
Goodhue County
- Brian Johnson, Cannon Falls, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for 4 Part Concert Series (so it goes).
- 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.
- Zumbrota Community Band received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
Houston County
- Melissa Wray, Caledonia, received a $3,000 Emerging Artist Grant for Homecoming: A Poetry & Quilt Project.
- Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
- Ye Olde Opera House received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Facilities & Maintenance.
Mower County
- Austin Symphony Orchestra received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
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.
- Children’s Dance Theatre received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Gallery 24 Artists Collaborative received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
- Greater Rochester Arts and Cultural Trust 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.
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.
- Ameriikan Poijat Finnish Brass Band received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
Steele County
- Andi Lynn Arnold, Owatonna, received a $5,000 Advancing Artist Grant for In the Garden of Life, Light & Growth.
- Owatonna Arts Center received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
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.
- Frozen River Film Festival received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Mid West Music Fest received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Administrative Expenses.
- Theatre du Mississippi received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Facilities & Maintenance
- Winona Arts Center received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.
- Winona Symphony Orchestra received a $5,000 General Operating Support grant for Staffing & Salaries.