Project Support Grants
The Rimon Arts Fund was created by the generosity of hundreds of donors in our community. Since 2005, Rimon has awarded $213, 000 to 107 projects. These grants provide financial, marketing, and production support to projects that explore Jewish identity, history, or values through the arts.
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Deadline is Friday, March 19, 2021, 5 pm.
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Eight projects were chosen for support in 2019-2020.
- Katya Oicherman will present a series of performances at White Page Gallery in Minneapolis in the spring of 2020, reflecting on her childhood in the Soviet Union using digital animations, storytelling, and soft functional sculptures.
- The musical ensemble Incantare will perform “EXILE: Jewish Musicians and Their Contemporaries in Early Modern Europe” in November 2020 along with numerous supplementary educational programs.
- The Sabes JCC will exhibit a unique selection of little-known works by Rube Goldberg in August 2020 as well as hosting a multi-generational Rube Goldberg-inspired workshop.
- Minnesota Hillel received funding to help commission local Jewish artists Allan Shultz and Claude Riedel to design and install a ner tamid, ark, reader’s table, and bimah seat. These beautiful ritual items will be a crown jewel in Hillel’s new chapel.
- Zachary Goldberg received funding to create fifteen poems for inclusion in his manuscript Karl::Groucho, which explores the dissonances of Jewish American identity.
- The Minnesota Sinfonia will feature Israeli soloists Amit Peled and Alon Goldstein in next year’s season as well as new compositions by the Sinfonia’s artist director, Jay Fishman.
- Brooks Turner was awarded funds to support the exhibition of his art work in Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota at the Weisman Museum.
- Amanda Minoff will complete her novel, The Child Who Does Not Know How to Ask, and will organize a reading series of Jewish and historically underrepresented authors.
Six projects were chosen for support in Rimon’s Spring 2019 grant round.
- Writer/producer Gail Rosenblum will produce a teaching curriculum to accompany her work-in-progress, MILKWEED, a feature-length animated film based on Jerry Spinelli’s young adult novel about the Holocaust.
- Sarah Myers will create story circles for Jewish and Muslim youth in the Twin Cities with collaborator Fardosa Hassan, exploring the commonalities between these two faith communities and confronting the stereotypes about them.
- Rebecca Heidenberg will produce a short experimental film that deals with issues around migration anchored in the narrative of philosopher Walter Benjamin’s escape from Nazi-occupied France.
- Photographer Linda Brooks will publish her first monograph, PROXIMITIES, reflections on art, education, activism.
- Hineni will collaborate with artist Denise Tennen on Cheshbon HaNefesh on the Mississippi River: Preparation for Rosh Hashanah through Nature and Art at Crosby Farm Park in St. Paul.
- Theater director Carolyn Levy will collaborate with playwright Cynthia Cooper in doing research for the development of a play, I Was a Stranger, Too, about Jewish families who respond to the refugee crisis in a personal way.
Spring 2005
Jewish Women and Prayer/visual artists
Twin Cities Jewish Middle School/ceramic mural
Fall 2005
Ida’s Story/film
Sheltering Home Chronicles/visual art
Company of Angels: The Story of Charlotte Salomon/theater
Center Playhouse/interactive visual arts workshops
Spring 2006
Voice to Vision/film
Fall 2006
Olive Bieringa/film
Festival of Lights/theater
Keren Or/photography & writing
Spring 2007
Idit Cytron/arts therapy
Jay Isenberg/architectural installation
Sheltering Home Chronicles/spoken word workshop & photography
Sabes JCC/Keshet Dance Company
Fall 2007
Sylvia Horwitz/photographer
Jewish Community Relations Council (Laura Zelle)/visual narrative
Minnesota Film Arts/International film festival
Spring 2008
St. Paul JCC/Scattered Among the Nations/photography & workshops
Keren Or/website development
Fall 2008
Bais Yaacov High School for Girls/theater
Talmud Torah of Minneapolis/arts education
Intermedia Arts/Spirit in the House performance festival
VocalEssence/choral concert
Spring 2009
Elisa Korentayer/musician
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater/seniors movement workshops
Jenna Zark/theater
Fall 2009
Ran Shapira/photographer
One Voice Mixed Chorus/concert production & commission
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company/theater production
3-Minute Egg/video portraits
Spring 2010
Twin Cities Jewish Chorale/choral concert production
Playwrights’ Center/theater workshop
Fall 2010
Margie Newman/literary reading
VOICE (Sabes JCC)/film production
Minnesota Film Arts/Jewish film series
Adath Jeshurun Congregation/visual art exhibition
Spring 2011
Jane Strauss/photography book
Craig Harris/concert production
Fall 2011
Miryam Kabakov/film series
Laura Silver/film production
Heart of the Beast Theatre/theater production & tour
TVbyGIRLS/film production
World Without Genocide/conference arts activities
Spring 2012
St. Paul JCC’s Camp Butwin/art production
Hillel at University of Minnesota/art production
Fall 2012
Singers in Accord/choral conductor residency
Sabes JCC/film and photography exhibit
Spring 2013
Oratorio Society of Minnesota/choral concert
Jay Isenberg/architecture affinity group
ettyplay, inc./theatre production and residency
Fall 2013
Minnesota Film Arts/film festival
Zorongo Flamenco/dance-theater production
Ethan Rowan Pope/visual art school residency
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company/theater production
Spring 2014
World Without Genocide/documentary film
St. Paul JCC/Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival
Curt Brown/non-fiction
Fall 2014
Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies/visual art opening event
Keren Kroul/painting
Rachel Breen & Alison Morse/multimedia
Spring 2015
Sabes JCC/new initiative/multimedia
Fortune’s Fool Theatre/theater
International Friendship through the Performing Arts/music
Fall 2015
Illusion Theater/theater
Maggie Bearmon Pistner/theater
Jewfolk Media, Inc./arts writing
Twin Cities Jewish Chorale/music
Spring 2016
Judith Brin Ingber/theater
Northern Starz Theatre Company/theater
Tamara Nadel/dance
Judith Eisner/music
Cia Sautter/dance
Fall 2016
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra/music
Craig Harris/multimedia
Bakken Trio/music
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company/theater
Alan Berks/theater
Jewish Community Relations Council/theater
Spring 2017
The Baroque Room/music
St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts/music
World Without Genocide/film
Max Sparber/theater
Fall 2017
Z Puppets Rosenschnoz/puppet theater
Kyna Levi/visual arts
Illusion Theater/theater
St. Paul JCC/music
Spring 2018
Minnesota Sinfonia/music
Lior Shragg/music education
Jeff Weinberg/film
Twin Cities Jewish Chorale/music
Fall 2018
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company/theater
Harmony Theatre Company & School/theater
Michael Kuhne/non-fiction
Uprooted/theater
Spring 2019
Linda Brooks/photography
Gail Rosenblum/film
Sarah Myers/storytelling
Rebecca Heidenberg/film
Hineni/visual art
Carolyn Levy/theater
Fall 2019
Katya Oicherman/multimedia performance
Eric Lipman/online concert production
Incantare/music performance
Sabes JCC/visual arts exhibition & workshop