Montana Arts Council
American Rescue Plan Act Funding (Closed)
MAC is excited to announce the recipients of the ARPA Artist and Organization Grants. Made possible by $754,000 in federal funding allocated via the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), these one-time grants are intended to boost Montana’s creative economy as it continues to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic. The ARPA Artist grant is a project-based grant with a maximum award of $10,000 and is designed to fund the creation of new artwork and expand audiences for the arts. The ARPA Organization provides up $5,000 in funds to cover day-to-day operating costs for Montana 501c3 arts organizations. Both processes are now closed.
| Artist Grant | ||||
| First Name | Last Name | Project Name | Community | Award Amount |
| Elise | Atchison | No Woman's Land | Livingston | $5,000.00 |
| Kate | Augusto | Creation of "Thoughts & Allies," an Ensemble Dance Work | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Jenny | Bevill | Virtual Open Studio: Visiting with Contemporary Montana Artists | Whitefish | $10,000.00 |
| Samantha | Bird* | Painting for Positive Futures | Cut Bank | $10,000.00 |
| Courtney | Blazon | Even the Sun goes West: A collection of drawings of the west by Courtney Blazon and Ladypajama | Missoula | $9,328.00 |
| Betty | Buckley | Flyover Country | Power | $10,000.00 |
| Heather | Cahoon | “Poems for Naɫisqélixʷ (People-Eating Monsters) Manuscript”. | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Russ | Chapman* | Russ Chapman - Recording High Country Blues - an 8-10 song recording project. | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Chip | Clawson | Create Two Large Suspended Sculptures for Exhibition | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Adam | Collins* | Le Violoncelle Francophone: Cello-Piano Concert Tour | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Jacob | Cowgill | Small Town, Long Streets: Coming Together in Rural Montana | Power | $10,000.00 |
| Nic | Davis* | The Montana Sessions | Bozeman | $9,783.00 |
| Cameron | Decker* | Astkw: Salish Cedar Bark Basket Integration in Education | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Jane | Waggoner Deschner | "Remember me." immersive installation at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Melissa | DiNino | Reaching a New Audience: Creating Work for MiXX Atelier in Telluride, Colorado | McLeod | $10,000.00 |
| Ulf | Eriksson* | "Montana Sounds": Montana Inspired Original Jazz - A Full Album Audio Recording and Performances | Florence | $8,965.00 |
| Jennifer | Fawcett* | Tour of Junior's Debut Album | Missoula | $6,416.00 |
| Richard | Fifield* | Bad Luck Book Club | Missoula | $9,990.00 |
| Jeni | Fleming | Holiday Symphony Project | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| John | Floridis | Songs Of A Certain Age | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Linda | Foy | Four Seasons of Montana: From the River Bottom to the Clouds Above | Twin Bridges | $10,000.00 |
| Emily | Freeman | Stay Here | Dillon | $10,000.00 |
| Marian | Geil* | Smelter Mouse Chronicles | Anaconda | $6,646.00 |
| Mark | Gibbons | Podunk No Horse: A Tale of Vice in Verse | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Monica | Gilles-Brings Yellow Horses | Creation of Public Art and Public School Art | Missoula | $2,600.00 |
| Louis | Habeck | Life-size Triceratops Head Herd Completion. | Billings | $9,650.00 |
| Audrey | Hall* | Harlow Willis; Bitter Taste - a fine art multimedia and multi-platform project | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Jessy | Hanson* | The Home We Carry: A Visual Anthology of the Unhoused and Their Belongings | Lakeside | $8,850.00 |
| DG | House | Yellowstone 150: Reflections From DG House | Bozeman | $9,906.00 |
| Stephen | Hunt* | Light and Life on The Land | Saint Ignatius | $10,000.00 |
| Marcy | James* | No Man's Land: The Library | Missoula | $8,153.00 |
| Aaron | Jennings* | Vinyl Record Manufacturing and Workshop | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Danell | Jones* | The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Black British Lives, and the Dreadnought Hoax | Billings | $8,350.00 |
| Megan | Karls | Re-Envisioned: Montana Composers in Mission Churches | Great Falls | $9,193.00 |
| John | Knight | John Knight ARPA Request: Creating a Site Specific Installation at the Montana Artist Refuge Gallery | Missoula | $8,546.00 |
| Beth | Korth* | Beth Korth Printmaking Workshop & Demonstrations in Red Lodge, MT | Roberts | $5,850.00 |
| Bryan | Kostors* | The River Is Everywhere | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Brian | Langeliers | Aerial Landscape Paintings : "A Tale of Two Cities" | Red Lodge | $8,856.00 |
| Valentina | Lapier* | Traditional Parfleche Native American Art | East Glacier Park | $10,000.00 |
| Ari | Laskin* | Memorial’s Undoing: Horror without Monsters | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Steven | Lee | Tableware on the Jigger/Jolley | Helena | $9,985.00 |
| Liz | Lewis* | Loyalty Life-Size German Shepherd Bronze Production | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Gary | Little* | Montana Uplift | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| BT | Livermore | Well Ain't That a Thing (An Interactive Art Show) | Butte | $6,450.00 |
| Melissa | Madsen* | Is It Art or Is It Vandalism, Stencils, Street Art and Photoshop | Missoula | $5,451.00 |
| Bruna | Massadas | Latest Paintings | Bozeman | $9,998.00 |
| Wyatt | Maw* | Ashland | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Allison | McGree | The Interconnections, Impact, and Beauty of Montana's Rivers | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Norman | Menzales | Filipino Flute Recording Project | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Andrew | Meyers | Theatre for Young Audiences: Script Development and Touring Production | Missoula | $2,500.00 |
| Leslie | Millar | Heavenly Visions - Burnt Offerings Series | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Shawna | Moore | Exhibition Support | Whitefish | $10,000.00 |
| Buck | Morigeau | Old Montana Ways | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Sheree | Nelson* | Mural Installation - Downtown Great Falls | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Rick | Newby | The Helena Notebooks | Helena | $3,500.00 |
| Natalie | Padilla* | Montana Wildflower | Bozeman | $9,950.00 |
| Natalie | Peeterse | Thunderous Book Tour Project | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Whitney | Polich* | Egg Tempera Landscapes | Vaughn | $9,945.00 |
| Meghan | Purcell* | Developing Online and In-Person Wool Felt Workshops & Tutorial | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Tara | Radosevich* | Tara's Solo Show- The Wildlife of Montana | Bozeman | $2,846.00 |
| Amy | Ragsdale | Montana Suite film completion | Missoula | $5,700.00 |
| Micah | Rauch* | Building an Art Studio to Better bring the Weird Wilds to Montana | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Jennifer | Reifsneider | Jennifer Reifsneider: Spool Exhibition | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Alison | Reintjes | Clay in Context | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Brandon | Reintjes | New Materials for New Paintings | Missoula | $5,000.00 |
| Ashley | Reloba-Meyora* | Working With What You Have | Missoula | $8,562.00 |
| Stephanie | Revennaugh* | Cast Glass Collaboration Revennaugh/Henry | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| James | Rickley | Flowing Waters | Music New to Great Falls | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Jennifer | Rohrer* | Sacred Ground Crown Butte: The Creation of a Kevin Red Star Painting | Seeley Lake | $9,350.00 |
| Anne | Ross | Dimensional Textures: Durable Art Board Books of Curiosity and Wonder | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Russell | Rowland | Breakfast in Montana | Billings | $5,000.00 |
| Pamela | Schiffer* | Paradise Valley Paintings | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Naomi | Siegel | The Nature Of Change: Composition & Conduction with the Hellgate High School Jazz Ensemble | Missoula | $7,472.00 |
| Andy | Smetanka | I Am the Wilma Theater | Missoula | $5,000.00 |
| Kimberly | Spence* | A Bird Set Free | Stevensville | $10,000.00 |
| Loren | Stillman* | Divide: The Montana Jazz Project - tour and live broadcast | Missoula | $9,910.00 |
| Ann | Tappan* | Williams/Tappan/Kohler | Manhattan | $2,774.00 |
| Geoffrey | Taylor* | 12 Fantasias for 5-string Fiddle: New Music for 5-string Fiddle Recordings and Performances | Missoula | $6,200.00 |
| Peter | Tolton | Return - Vietnam Veteran Documentary Film | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Shalene | Valenzuela | Let's Play Telephone | Missoula | $4,452.00 |
| Willem | Volkersz | Looking Back, Looking Forward | Bozeman | $5,005.00 |
| Ella | Watson | Ancestor Inspired Disability/ Chronic Care Apperatuses and Medical Paintings | Bozeman | $9,958.00 |
| April | Werle* | Mga Hunghong sa Diwata (Whispers of Spirits) - Solo Exhibition by April Werle | Missoula | $9,910.00 |
| Christopher | Woodman* | Slow Dusty Road album for Good Old Fashioned | Missoula | $6,855.00 |
| Dana | Zier | Honoring Earth and Heritage from the Boonies | Bridger | $9,747.00 |
| Total Artist Grant Awards | $737,602.00 | |||
| ARPA Organization Grant | ||||
| Organization | Community | Award | ||
| Bigfork Art and Cultural Center* | Bigfork | $5,000.00 | ||
| Montana State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Inc. | Denton | $5,000.00 | ||
| Sweet Grass Arts Alliance* | Big Timber | $5,000.00 | ||
| The Paradise Center | Paradise | $5,000.00 | ||
| Total Organization Grant Awards | $20,000 | |||
| * First time applicants are noted with an asterisk. | ||||
Montana Arts Council | 830 N. Warren Street, Helena, MT 59601
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The Montana Arts Council is funded by the State of Montana and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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