Ten local artists were selected for a total of $18,000 in individual grants awarded by the Region 2 Arts Council Board of Directors and a community review panel.
These grants provide financial assistance to artists in any arts discipline or in any stage of their career as an artist residing in the Minnesota counties of Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and Mahnomen.
The individual artist grant program is supported by a grant from the McKnight Foundation to fund costs associated with the exhibition, performance or production of a creative work; purchase of materials or equipment necessary for a creative work; educational opportunities; mentorships; and proposals for career-enhancing projects or opportunities.
Artists
- Hattie Peterson, Solway: $2,000 to purchase a rolling mill and other tools for Tumbled Heart Studio, allowing her to recycle metal scraps, reduce waste and create infinite new textures on current and future jewelry designs.
- Erin Marsh, Bemidji: $1,325 to mentor with poet Athena Kildegaard for six weeks.
- Teresa McDowell, Williams: $1,885 to purchase a Sailrite sewing machine for sewing leather, as well as upholstery thread, sewing machine leather needles, and some leather and fur pelts for future projects including traditional moccasins, mukluks, mittens and hats.
- Tim Nelson, Bemidji: $2,000 to purchase a pneumatic welding table for his metal arts studio.
- Jeremy Simonson, Park Rapids: $2,000 to upgrade his current semiprofessional camera and purchase a new Nikon professional camera body.
- Lara Annette, Bemidji: $2,000 to attend a weeklong writing workshop taught by Luis Alberto Urrea and Pam Houston to further develop longform narrative writing skills.
- Michael Bowman, Bemidji: $2,000 to purchase materials to produce new work connected to traditional regalia making and pipe making for both dance and ceremonial purposes.
- Lowell Wolff, Park Rapids: $2,000 to curate, print and frame a collection of street photographs/portraits from a three-year period in Mexico titled “Connection: a photographic essay on the connection between a photographer and model.”
- Bridget Westrum, Bemidji: $2,000 to purchase equipment for an at-home ceramics studio to advance her artistic career and produce enough ceramic pieces for her first solo exhibition.
- Tina Anderson, Bemidji: $790 to purchase supplies and equipment to make a life-size needle-felted wolf sculpture.
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