November 2019 – May 2020

Total Awardees: 10
Total Awarded: $50,000
Total Cities: 6

Maplewood

The author will write a food memoir book about her complicated relationship with Vietnamese food and how cultivating that relationship over time influenced her desire to learn about her Vietnamese culture and family history.

St. Paul

Artists Collective for Community Collaboration will create two art-building workshops for indigenous youth and their families, focusing on the lives and stories of missing or murdered indigenous women (MMIW) in Minnesota.

Cannon Falls

Bee will compose and record traditional Hmong song poetry.

Nett Lake

Chaz will develop an Ojibwe Podcast that includes oral interviews with local elders, community experts, activists, and Anishinaabe peoples of Minnesota.

Morton

This program will provide a fun, supportive and engaging opportunity for Dakota youth to learn the Dakota language and culture through weekly activity nights and video making.

dakotawicohan.org

St. Paul

Guest speakers will provide cultural teachings pertaining to the drum, the songs, the dances, and powwow protocols.

Minneapolis

MIGIZI will begin to digitize 40 years of audio archives to enable future usage by American Indians and all Minnesotans.

migizi.org

St. Paul

This project will support 3 short term projects led by artists in their coalition: The January Buffalo Show, RedTalk Symposium, and Live At the Buffalo Show CD Audio Mastering and short run printing.

oyatehotanin.org

St. Paul

Supporting inclusion of pan-African voices and stories, Weathering, a new play in-progress written by Harrison David Rivers and directed by Talvin Wilks, explores the histories and health outcomes for mothers of color in America.

penumbratheatre.org

Minneapolis

Telling Queer History and Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia will host a December storytelling event to support the intersectional identities of immigrant members who are also part of the queer community.

tellingqueerhistory.com

inquilinxsunidxs.org