The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council is pleased to announce that grants of $105,100 from the Arts and Culture Heritage Fund have been awarded to seventeen arts organizations, community groups and schools in the region.  This fund was created by the people of Minnesota to support the arts and preserve our heritage.  The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, passed by the voters in November, 2008, created new resources for land conservation, water conservation, parks and the Arts.

Three Sibley County organizations received arts grants totaling $12,000.  Gaylord Area Chamber of Commerce received $4,000 and will sponsor “Music on Main” with ten concerts by Minnesota musicians in downtown Gaylord from May to October, 2015.  Green Isle Community School received $4,000 and will sponsor an Artist in Residency where students interview two elders from the community and work with local artists to create plays and music based on the elders’ lives.  Public performance of the plays will be May 21, 2015.  Sibley East Public School received $4,000 and will host a regional Elementary Art Show at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Schaefer Gallery in St. Peter, May 2015.

Find the complete story in the April 16, 2015 edition of the Arlington Enterprise.