A Cook County artist and two organizations were awarded grants from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council on March 15, 2018.
Melissa Wickwire of Grand Marais was awarded a $5,000 Community Arts Learning grant to help support Clay Club, which will meet for 16 weeks during April, May, September, October, November and December 2018 from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Clay Club will work with two groups of students, grades K-5 the other grades 6-12. Clay Club will be an after-school opportunity for youth to learn, grow, express themselves and connect with others through the complex and creative process of ceramic arts.
The North Shore Music Association of Grand Marais was awarded a $5,000 Community Arts Learning grant to help support teaching artists Robert Jones and Matt Watroba as they work with the students in grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 at Great Expectations School in Grand Marais, MN. Their program “Music That Matters” is a project of the organization Common Chords, whose mission and vision are to be a resource to connect art with community, with an emphasis on traditional styles of American music, storytelling, art, and singing.
North Shore Music Association was also awarded a $5,000 Art Project grant to help support Jimmie Dale Gilmore and his son Colin Gilmore as they present an all-ages concert at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais, MN, on July 14, 2018. The concert will consist of two sets of forty-five minutes, with a 15-20-minute intermission. Jimmie Dale Gilmore is co-founder of the legendary band The Flatlanders, three-year Rolling Stone Magazine “Country Artist of the Year,” and forefather of the Alt-Country movement, and will be performing in concert with his son.
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council is a regional nonprofit that has been encouraging local arts development in northeastern Minnesota through arts funding and services for over 35 years.
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