Ada-Borup Public School Music Director Richard Tuttle has included some very innovative technology into his music program. The change was made possible – in part – through a grant from the NWMAC. Richard talks about his students, what they learn, how they are learning and the importance of NWMAC support.

Jeanne Cooney lives in Kennedy, MN. Her third book in the “Hot Dish Heaven Mystery” Series — A Potluck of Murder and Recipes — was recently published.

Jeanne has also been very active in Kennedy after moving there when she retired from the Department of Justice in the Twin Cities. Recently, she received a grant from the NWMAC to pay for a community mural painted by senior-citizen artists from around the area and for four art classes taught by those same senior-citizen artists.

A group of approximately six senior-citizen artists from around the area designed and painted a wall mural in Kennedy, with community volunteers–adults and teens– making this project a multi-generational, area-wide endeavor.

Aliza Novecek-Olson of Roseau County, MN is a fiber artist by medium and a folk artist by style. She was awarded a NWMAC Fellowship Grant to provide demonstrations and workshops in the fiber arts to various community groups. Her goal was to impart awareness of fiber arts, as well as to display and preserve techniques of traditional methods used to create folk art from textiles. She utilizes primitive techniques and machines/tools used by our ancestors.

Her folk art techniques include spinning on both a traditional spinning wheel and the great wheel, processing and carding of natural animal fibers, weaving on a triangle and a peg loom. She was also able to purchase some new equipment with NWMAC grant funding.

NWMAC Executive Director Mara Hannel relays the latest information on grant applications, a grant application workshop and details on the NWMAC Gallery and Gift Shop in downtown East Grand Forks, MN.

The guest artist Scott Larson of Newfolden, MN.