Jerome Foundation arts grants total $794,000

Biggest recipient is St. Paul-based American Composers Forum.

March 14, 2013 at 6:15PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Dancer Vanessa Voskuil was among Minnesotans who won grants this week from Jerome Foundation. Star Tribune photo by Tom Wallace. The St. Paul-based American Composers Forum was the single biggest recipient in a recent round of grantmaking by the Jerome Foundation. It received $100,000 in support of the Jerome Fund for New Music and the Minnesota Emerging Composers Award program.

The Jerome made 32 grants totaling $794,000 to New York and Minnesota arts groups.

Other Minnesota arts groups winning Jerome grants are:

Pangea World Theater, $36,000

Pillsbury United Communities/Pillsbury House Theatre, two grants totalling $46,500

Rochester Art Center, $18,000

The Soap Factory, $24,000

Springboard for the Arts, $64,000

Vanessa Voskuil (via Springboard for the Arts), $20,000

Kathy McTavish (via Springboard for the Arts), $9,000

American Composers Forum, $100,000

Coffee House Press, $26,000

Red Eye theater, $31,500

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