Travel and
Study

(1986–2018)

Photo by Xuan Wang (2016 Literature, China)

From 1986 through 2018, the Travel and Study Grant program awarded 1,109 grants totaling $3,875,8721 to emerging artists and Minnesota-based arts administrators to travel and do research.

This program received generous support from other sources, including the Dayton Hudson and Target Foundations (1986–2001), the General Mills Foundation (1988–2014), and the Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation (2002–2018).

From 1986 to 2005, the program supported individuals living in Minnesota, expanding to include New York City in 2006. 79% of grants went to Minnesota-based artists and arts administrators. From 1986 to 2002, awards were given in all disciplines each year. Starting in 2003, grants were made to disciplines in alternating years, with three disciplines supported each year.

Ayana Evans, "Sparkle", 2017 FIAP Martinique. Photo by Mara Catalan.
Ayana Evans, "Sparkle", 2017 FIAP Martinique. Photo by Mara Catalan.

Travel and Study Funding by Discipline


The program supported opportunities for grantees to investigate their cultural and artistic roots, study with mentors, and attend training programs to develop new skills among many other activities. Grantees traveled from the Arctic to Khartoum, from Tokyo to Sarli village in India, and to 49 of 50 United States (excepting Delaware).

The Travel and Study Program was discontinued as a separate initiative after the 2018 grants were awarded. The objectives of the program were embraced in the new Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships, which provides an expanded level of support.

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<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=4&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Dance</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=23&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Film, Video and Digital Production</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=7&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=26&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;rregion=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Multi-disciplinary</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=1&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Music</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=2&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Theater</a></p>

<p><a href="/past-grantees?grant_type=20&amp;discipline=3&amp;from=1+January+1986&amp;to=&amp;region=All&amp;&amp;program=12&amp;keys=">Visual Arts</a></p>

DANCE

Chris Aiken

Sandy Augustin

Djola Branner

Bonnie Brooks

Barbara Bryan

Danny Buraczeski

Trevor Carlson

Ladda Chanthraphone

Karen Charles

Susana di Palma 

Leigh Dillard

Mary Easter

Simone Eccleston

Olga Garay

Lise Houlton

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Morris Johnson

Emily Johnson

Spider Kedelsky

John Killacky

Amy Lamphere

Debra Leigh

Kari Margolis

Bonnie Mathis

Cynthia Oliver

Gary Peterson

Benjamin Prior

Aparna Ramaswamy

Will Rawls

Gabri Christa Reid

Sally Rousse

Uri Sands

Patrick Scully

Rosy Simas

Douglas Sonntag

Daniel J. Stark

Georgia Stephens

Wil Swanson

Laurie Uprichard

Laurie Van Wieren

Julie Voigt

Roxane Wallace

Geol Weirs

David White

Arwen Wilder

June Wilson

June Wilson

San San Wong

Cathy Young

FILM, VIDEO, AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION

Dan Bergin

Hisham Bizri

Hafed Boussuda

Bruce Charlesworth

Portia Cobb

Georgiana Day

Helen De Michiel

Thalia Drori

Emily Goldberg

David Grant

Barbara Hammer

Mike Hazard

Trevor Hendricks

dejunius hughes

Cristina Ibarra

Bruce Jenkins

Lillian Jimenez

Dawn Renee Jones

Ruby Lerner

John Ligon

Lu Lippold

Sally Mendzela

Toney W. Merritt

John Mhiripiri

Jane Minton

Robb Mitchell

Sheryl Mousley

Eric Mueller

Alyce Myatt

Terri Myers

Eileen Newman

Lorraine Norrgard

Amy Ostergaard

Dean Otto

Edwin Pagán

Simon-Hoa Phan

Simon-Hoa Phan

Leighton Pierce

Jennifer Redfearn

Tony Riddle

Rajendra Roy

Neil Sieling

William Slichter

Mark Tang

Rich Tejada-Flores

Dorothy Thigpin

Bobbi Tsumagari

Morrie Warshawski

Laura Waterman Wittstock

Lucinda Winter

James Yee

Jake Yuzna

LITERATURE

Elena Alexander

Quang Bao

Jim Berg

Ed Bok Lee

Barrie Jean Borrich

Marie Brown

Charles Coe

Tenaya Darlington

Alan Davis

Pallavi Dixit

Carol Dixon

Heid Erdrich

Elliot Figman

Christopher Fischbach

Pat Francisco

Diane Glancy

Ray Gonzalez

Judith Guest

Phebe Hanson

Erin Hart

Margaret Hasse

David Haynes

Robert Hedin

Carolyn Holbrook

Bob Holman

Patricia S. Jones

Chrissy Kolaya

Fiona McCrae

Brian Maloy

Kathleen Masterson

Katherine Minton

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Jim Moore

David Mura

Sheila Murphy

Jim Northrup

Gwendolyn Parker

Deidre Pope

J. Otis Powell!

Sherry Quan Lee

George Rabasa

William Reichard

Marcie Rendon

Richard Robbins

Bart Schneider

Patricia Spears Jones

Bart Sutter

Yuko Taniguchi

Anton Treuer

Kitty Tsui

Diane Wilson

Kao Kalia Yang

Jan Zita Grover

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

Davida (Kilgore) Adedjouma

Philip Bither

Michael Dennis Browne 

Amy Cordova

Kathleen Laughlin

Michael Lupu

Ruth Maleczech

Gustavo Matamoros

Rick Thompson

Philip Yenawine

MUSIC

J. Anthony Allen

Charles Amirkhanian

Marc Anderson

David Balakrishnan

William Banfield

Krystal Banfield

Lea Bertucci

Philip Blackburn

Julia Bogorad

Robert Browning

Michael Cameron

Evelina Chao

Brent Michael Davids

William Eddins

Douglas Ewart

Wallace Hill

Edie Hill

Taylor Ho Bynum

Prudence Johnson

Michelle Kinney

Homer Lambrecht

Janis Lane-Ewart

Libby Larsen

Minja Lausevic

Ron McCurdy

Kathy McTavish

Renaldo Moya

Mankwe Ndosi

Kate Nordstrum

Phil Nussbaum

Chris Osgood

Zeena Parkins

Nirmala Rajasekar

Judith Sainte Croix

Rio Sakairi

Sarah Solotaroff

Bernadette Speach

Jim Staley

Dameun Strange

Romuald Tecco

Steve Tibbetts

Jeffrey Trevino

Donald Washington

C. Spencer Yeh

Bora Yoon

Pamela Z

THEATER

Jeffrey Bartlett

John Lee Beatty

Sonya Berlovitz

Jessica Blank

Ed Bok Lee

Carlyle Brown

Sha Cage

Ben Cameron

Laurie Carlos

Ellie Covan

Hal Cropp

Sean Dowse

Michael Elyanow

W. David Hancock

Jeff Hatcher

Susan Hilferty

Kim Hines

Dean Holzman

Tom Isbell

Morgan Jenness

Melanie Joseph

Gülgün Kayim

Michal Kobialka

Cynthia Mayeda

Des McAnuff

Robbie McCauley

Marion McClinton

Chiori Miyagawa

Isabell Monk

Sandy Moore

David Moore

Louis D. Moreno

Miriam Must

Nicky Paraiso

Luu Pham

Jason Phelps

Faye M. Price

Noël Raymond

Jack Reuler

Bob Rosen

Tim Sanford

Bina Sharif

Rick Shiomi

Paul Slee

Roberto Uno

VISUAL ARTS

Ta-coumba Aiken

Kinji Akagawa

Doug Argue

Roberto Bedoya

Holly Block

Vernal Bogren Swift

Laurel Bradley

Richard Bresnahan

Andrea Selese Carlson

Santiago Cucullu

Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra

Jim Denomie

Martin DeWitt

Rina Epelstein

Tom Finkelpearl

David Goldes

Lauren Haynes

Eric Heist

James Henkel

Ricardo Hernandez

Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy

John Hock

Alexa Horochowski

Wing Young Huie

Barbara Hunt

Olukemi Ilesanmi

Hitomi Iwasaki

Suzanne Kosmalski

David Paul Lange, OSB

Donald McNeil

Stephen Mohring

Jose Narezo

Judy Onofrio

Yasmil Raymond 

Laurel Reuter

Laurel Reuter

Garth Rockcastle

Linda Rossi

Paul Shambroom

B. J. Shigaki

Roger Shimomura

John Steffl

Eun-Kyung Suh

Herb Tam

James Tanner

Peter Taub

Xavier Tavera

Eugenia Tsai

Megan Vossler

Adam Weinberg

Dyani White Hawk

Steven Woodward

Julie Yanson

Laura Youngbird