From a press release:
The Laura Jane Musser Fund offers grants.
In recognition of Laura Jane Musser's life-long commitment to excellence in the arts, and with awareness that pivotal and life-changing experience can occur for individuals through introduction to and participation in the arts. The Laura Jane Musser Fund hopes to encourage and excite a wider population to appreciate, learn, and participate in the arts.
In pursuit of this goal, the Musser Fund hopes to assist nonprofit arts organizations to develop, implement or sustain exceptional artistic opportunities for adults and children in the areas of literary, visual, music and performing arts.
Grants are given to organizations in the following states: Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Wyoming and Michigan.
The Musser Fund is interested in funding arts collaborations.
Collaborations of an arts organization with other nonprofits or schools to educate, enrich, and provide participatory arts activities for their community. The Musser Directors are interested in supporting projects where these collaborations spark a new interest or dynamic quality in the art organization and in the community.
Priority will be given to projects that engage participants in the creation of art.
Priority will be given to collaborations that offer opportunities for more in-depth participation in the creation of art, and to those collaborations that unfold over longer periods of time.
Applicants may apply for up to $10,000.
Applications must come from arts organizations with operating budgets of $3 million or less.
Grants are for one year only and will not be eligible for additional Musser support for two years -the grant period.
Proposals must demonstrate that both partners are involved in planning and implementation of the collaboration.
Deadline is March 2, 2009.
FMI: 612-825-2024
