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Dakota Creative Connections Recipients

Between 2008 and 2009, the Bush Foundation chose 20 artists to support through the Dakota Creative Connections initiative.

The 2009 Dakota Creative Connections recipients are:

Brian Begley & Mary Inman (Vermillion, SD) will rework, remount and tour Constellations: Stories in the Stars, a movement theater and multimedia work addressing issues in mythology and astronomy. (www.discoverymovementtheatre.com, $6,000 grant)

Dallas Chief Eagle II (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) (Martin, SD) will produce a DVD of his hoop dancing and cultural teaching to be marketed to schools, educators and cultural venues. ($6,000 grant)

Kathleen Coudle King (Minot, ND) will travel to small towns in North Dakota and Minnesota to research and interview residents for the purpose of expanding her one-act play Ghost Town into an evening-length work. (www.dakotalit.com, $6,000 grant)

Heidi Czerwiec (Grand Forks, ND) will work on developing and refining her sonnet sequence Self-Portrait as Bettie Page in preparation for publication at the Sewanee Writers Conference and West Chester University Poetry Conference. ($5,000 grant)

Mary Alice Haug (Brookings, SD) will travel to Daejoon, South Korea, to research a new book on family, land, culture, church and women, and will hire a designer to help market the finished book online. ($3,000 grant)

Patrick Hicks (Sioux Falls, SD) will travel to Auschwitz and Birkenau in Germany and to Oswiecim and Krakow in Poland to research his manuscript Newgrange, a novel about death and loss. ($4,100 grant)

Hollis Mackintosh (Bismarck, ND) will choreograph, design and construct set and costumes for Peter Pan, an original two-act ballet for Northern Plains Dance. ($4,000 grant)

Bill Peterson (Canton, SD) will perform, produce and promote recordings of Midwestern fiddle tunes on a new CD titled We Didn’t Make This Up with his band (Fiddler Nelson) and guest artists. ($4,000 grant)

Robert Sackman (Bismarck, ND) will travel, collect and perform traditional German/Russian songs in towns in North Dakota with a significant German/Russian heritage. ($5,260 grant)

Michael Wittgraf (Grand Forks, ND) will compose a new work using KYMAX software in quadraphonic and stereophonic sound for premiere by the University of North Dakota choir. (www.und.edu/instruct/wittgraf, $5,930 grant)

The 2008 Dakota Creative Connections recipients are:

Diana Marie Behl (Brookings, SD) will create a new body of mixed media and intaglio works on paper that address memory, narrative and personal history. (www.dianabehl.com, $3,400 grant)

Sara Christensen Blair (Aberdeen, SD), who transforms traditional craft and domestic processes into fine art context, plans to capture on video the stories of family members who engage in domestic fiber crafts, to be used in future exhibitions of her own work. (www.northern.edu/schristensen-blair, $6,000 grant)

Karen Lynn Davidson (Minot, ND) creates unusual and unexpected 2-D abstract surface designs with zippers on wooden, metal and glass objects. She plans to create larger pieces, including 3-D objects. (www.zippermosaics.com, $4,650 grant)

Kim William Fink (Grand Forks, ND) will create large-scale, mixed media works exploring popular cultural images during three residencies in Vermont, Colorado and Italy. (www.und.edu/instruct/kfink, $5,185 grant)

Sister Nancy Gunderson, OSB (Bismarck, ND), a Benedictine sister of Annunciation Monastery, will focus on hand-dyeing fabrics and creating embellishments to incorporate into art quilts. ($4,000 grant)

Alfred Jason Lindell (Park River, ND) will construct a large-scale, bell-style to create fused stained glass panels without leadlines. (www.sundogglass.com, $6,000 grant)

Linda Nelson (Sioux Falls, SD) will continue creating and preserving the traditional Native American beadwork taught to her by relatives and elders, traveling to Lower Brule. ($4,000 grant)

Sherry Lee Short (Fargo, ND) will study landscapes on Lake Superior for a new body of surrealistic paintings. (www.mnstate.edu/shortsh, $5,765 grant)

Sarah Regan Snavely (Bowman, ND) will create a new collection of animal forms from clay for a series of solo exhibitions. (www.sarahregansnavely.com, $6,000 grant)

Mary Wipf (Deadwood, SD) will make relief linoleum block prints based upon detailed observations and digital photographs from Black Hills sites. ($5,000 grant)