LRAC Fellowship
Lake Region Arts Council Fellowship provides deserving artists with significant financial support that enables them to further their work and their contribution to their communities. It is intended to recognize, reward and encourage outstanding individual artists in the region.
The LRAC Fellowship program provides one award each year for $5,000. Artistic discipline eligibility alternates, Visual Artists and Musicians one year and Literary, Dance and Theatre Arts the next year.
The LRAC Fellowship Program is made possible through funding from The McKnight Foundation.
2021 Fellowship Award Winner Bethany Lacktorin
The 2021 recipient of the LRAC Fellowship Literary/Performance Grant is Bethany Lacktorin, Experimental Media Performance Artist of rural Pope County, Minnesota. The current chair of the New London Arts & Culture Alliance as well as Director of the Little Theatre, Bethany has an Undergraduate Degree from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Violin and Performance Art, an AAS in Music Production from McNally Smith College of Music, and her BFA in Experimental Media and Fine Art at Prague College in the School of Art and Design. Other notable achievements include a number of artist residencies and mentorships throughout the states and abroad where she worked on a variety of performance-based projects. Evolving her work into a combination of sound installation and interactive performance art, she returned home in 2014 where, after her mother’s passing, she created a collaborative outdoor performance entitled “My Ocean.”
Her Fellowship Project will continue her exploration of the concepts she studied at Atelier REAL (now called AND Lab) by participating in what is called Practices of Dis-Immunization. She hopes that such workshops and additional mentoring sessions will enrich, reinforce, and refocus her artistic process of immersive art experiences. One of her future endeavors includes the idea to open a studio that will feature a menu of art experiences, workshops, and residencies where one-on-one arts experiences can thrive.
