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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)