Lake Region Arts Council announces over $122,000 in Fall 2024 Legacy Grants, supporting six individual artists and eleven organizations through funding from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Lake Region Arts Council and West Central Initiative are now seeking applications from towns of 5,000 or fewer in west central Minnesota.
Miranda Lape, LRAC Grants Manager, sat down with Michael Weatherly to get to know this year’s Fellowship awardee.
Lake Region Arts Council awarded seven Career Development Grants totaling $12,000 in May. The Career Development Grants are funded by a grant from Lake Region Arts Council through McKnight Foundation funding.
Beginning on January 17th and running through March 15th of 2022, LRAC Galley is hosting an ‘Emerging Artists Exhibition’ that will feature the work of five selected regional artists that live within in the nine counties that LRAC represents. Art media in this exhibit consist of fabric and fibers, paintings with aerosol, acrylic and oil paints, as well as sculptures and beadwork.
On January 4th, 2022, students at Viking Elementary were able to meet Paul Johnson, a mural artist hailing from their town of Pelican Rapids. His presentation, which focused on designing and implementing public art, was the official kick-off for an artistic endeavor recently funded by one of LRAC’s Legacy Grants.
