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    Welcome to Creative Exchange (again)

    Published October 14, 2014 by

    Nikiko Masumoto. Photo by Gosia Wosniacka.  This is cross-posted with permission from Creative Exchange. What is Creative Exchange and how can you use it? Springboard for the Arts Executive Director Laura Zabel looks back on how Creative Exchange has taken shape as a forum for idea sharing since its launch in March 2014. I believe in the magic of storytelling, not only for teller but also the listener," says agrarian artist Nikiko Masumoto, who lives and works in California's Central Valley. "The possibility of public exchange is so rich for inspiring changes in behaviors and public policy shifts."  That's been the promise of Creative Exchange since we initially rolled out the site in beta this March. With the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and partnership with Urban Innovation Exchange and Issue Media Group, we've been able to share stories about the important work of artists across America. More than that, we've paired those stories with practical toolkits for individuals and organizations to engage with each other and build new, fruitful, vibrant relationships.
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    16 St. Paul, Minn., projects share $530,000 in first Knight Green Line Challenge

    Published October 14, 2014 by

    Selby Avenue Jazz Fest (2009). We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 Knight Green Line Challenge. Sixteen innovative project ideas will share an award of $530,000 in the first year of this three-year, $1.5 million contest. related link "Knight Green Line Challenge names 16 winners in its inaugural year" - Press release (101414) We are so pleased with the vision, reach and range of the 16 winners, selected from an amazing 579 applications. Their ideas offer great promise for making communities along the new Green Line even more vibrant places to live, work, play and visit. Together, they will spur economic activity, bring people together in unique spaces, attract new interest to neighborhoods, and make areas in the Central Corridor more walkable and bikeable. Our thanks to The Saint Paul Foundation for being Knight Foundation’s partner in administering the challenge. We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 Knight Green Line Challenge. Sixteen innovative project ideas will share an award of $530,000 in the first year of this three-year, $1.5 million contest. We are so pleased with the vision, reach and range of the 16 winners, selected from an amazing 579 applications. Their ideas offer great promise for making communities along the new Green Line even more vibrant places to live, work, play and visit. Together, they will spur economic activity, bring people together in unique spaces, attract new interest to neighborhoods, and make areas in the Central Corridor more walkable and bikeable. Our thanks to The Saint Paul Foundation for being Knight Foundation’s partner in administering the challenge.
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    Arts advocacy group names three 2014 USA Knight Fellows

    Published October 13, 2014 by

    Thien To records an audio diary for Philly Youth Radio. Photo by Brad Larrison. Courtesy of United States Artists.  Three artists have been named USA Knight Fellows for 2014 by United States Artists, the national grantmaking and advocacy group. They include Edouard Duval-Carrié, a Miami-based visual artist who recently had a solo exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Yowei Shaw, an independent radio producer in Philadelphia, and visual artist Sandow Birk of Long Beach, Calif. They are part of a group of 34 USA Fellows named today. Each receives $50,000 in unrestricted funds to use as they choose. Knight Fellows, all of whom live in communities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight owned newspapers, also receive $5,000 for a community engagement project.
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    Charlotte Ballet’s “Dangerous Liaisons”

    Published October 13, 2014 by

    If the rainy weather kept you at home this weekend, then you missed Charlotte Ballet’s dramatic re-envisioning of “Dangerous Liaisons.” This is the second production of Sasha Janes’ choreography, which premiered in 2012, and brings the 1782 French novel “Les liaisons dangereuses” to contemporary ballet. This passionate tale of greed...
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    October update from the Project [theatre]

    Published October 11, 2014 by

    By Gladys Ramirez , the Project [theatre] October already?! Maybe it was just a mild case of heat stroke, but our busy summer seemed to fly by! In case you missed everything that led up to our season kick-off this September, here’s an update on the behind the scenes action...