Loss of Legacy funds angers arts groups
From Graydon Royce at the Star-Tribune:
If you don't cross every t and dot every i, you can kiss your cultural Legacy Amendment money goodbye.
More than a dozen Twin Cities groups that received Legacy Amendment-funded grants through the Minnesota State Arts Board in past years were stunned this year to find their applications rejected on what some say are technicalities.
That means Zenon Dance Company will not be able to tour outstate Minnesota, the Loft Literary Center will not get money for a program that served writers who have disabilities and Mixed Blood Theatre will shelve a $100,000 project aimed at improving access for audiences. The Guthrie Theater, Ordway Center, Intermedia Arts, VSA Minnesota and the Center for Book Arts are among those whose applications were ruled incomplete.
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