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(See continuation on Schedule O) false false 3394220 1373787 580125 PERFORMING ARTS: Arts Midwest manages seven programs which connect high-quality performing artists to audiences in the Midwest and nationally. Arts Midwest Touring Fund supports professional performing artists touring in our nine states. Arts Midwest World Fest presents international musical ensembles in week-long residencies in smaller Midwest communities, while Caravanserai provides artistic expressions and cultures of Muslim societies to Americans through performing and media-arts residencies. Midwest Conference convenes performing artists, artist managers, and presenters engaged in connecting the performing arts to audiences across the central U.S. (See continution on Schedule O) 1374606 1012700 331438 LITERARY ARTS: Arts Midwest manages NEA Big Read on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA Big Read is a program which broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. NEA Big Read supports organizations across the country in developing community-wide reading programs which encourage reading and participation by diverse audiences. Organizations selected to participate in NEA Big Read receive a grant, access to online training resources and opportunities, and educational and promotional materials designed to support widespread community involvement. (See continuation on Schedule O) 1049269 22400 LEARNING INITIATIVES: ArtsLab strengthens the impact of arts organizations in urban and rural communities through leadership and strategy development. ArtsLab is designed to provide intensive professional development training, mentorship, and technical assistance to cultural leaders in the Upper Midwest through peer learning communities typically ranging from six month to two year duration. The program is predominantly focused on strengthening nonprofit arts organizations in Minnesota and its neighboring states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin. 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Company 51 Bedford Road Suite 10 Katonah NY 105362135 571069546 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc PO Box 819 5950 Golf Course Road Spring Green WI 535888036 391583361 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Seattle Shakespeare Festival PO Box 19595 Seattle WA 981091595 911512717 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Tennessee Shakespeare Company PO Box 382143 Germantown TN 381832143 262113887 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Shakespeare Theatre 516 8th Street Southeast Washington DC 200032834 521405988 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Alabama Shakespeare Festival One Festival Drive Montgomery AL 361174605 630652734 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare Guthrie Theater Foundation 818 South 2nd Street Minneapolis MN 554151252 410854160 501(c)(3) 25000 Shakespeare 78 37 X true true X X X X false false false false false false false false false DAVID J FRAHER PRESIDENT & CEO 163951 0 20000 0 4666 0 11977 0 12150 0 212744 0 0 0 PART III, LINE 1 (Continuation from Part III) Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Arts Midwest designs and develops performing arts touring programs, leadership and strategic planning training, exhibitions, and funding programs that fulfill its mission. PART III, LINE 4A (Continuation from Part III) Shakespeare in American Communities supports U.S. theater companies performing Shakespeare for high school and middle school students. NEA Performing Arts Discovery encourages international touring networks by introducing arts presenters from China and Chile to U.S. performing artists and artforms, primarily at our Arts Midwest Conference. The Native American / China Exchange tours highly-esteemed Native American performers to smaller cities and rural areas across China to introduce Chinese people to an often-overlooked facet of American culture. Arts Midwest touring fund engages people in meaningful experiences with the fine arts of dance, music, theater, and other performing arts forms. The program provides financial support to presenting organizations in the Midwest. Funded engagements feature public performances and community engagement activities by professional touring artists that reach underserved audiences and foster exchanges between artists and Midwest communities. During the 2016-2017 funding season, Arts Midwest Touring Fund awarded over $380,000 to more than 142 presenting organizations across the nine-state region. Arts Midwest World Fest connects small and mid-sized Midwestern communities to world cultures through week-long residencies with global performers. Ensembles from Israel (Baladino), China (Anda Union), South Africa/Canada (Lorraine Klaasen Ensemble), and Quebec (Le Vent Du Nord) are conducting week-long residencies consisting of public concerts, school concerts, and outreach activities in the following nine Midwest communities: Brookings, SD; Wahpeton, ND; Thief River Falls, MN; Rhinelander, WI; Forest City, IA; Lebanon, IL; Wilmington, OH; Adrian, MI; and Plymouth, IN. The program provides arts enrichment while inspiring multicultural outreach, awareness, and appreciation. In each two year cycle, we serve approximately 90,000 students and 15,000 adults through approximately 45 performances and 300 educational activities. Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet creates new pathways for Americans to experience the diversity of contemporary Muslim artistic expressions by introducing U.S. audiences to exciting and dynamic Muslim performing artists. The 2015-2016 Caravanserai: American Voices season featured contemporary Muslim American musical expressions shared by Palestinian-American multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Malley, Indian-American soul-singer Zeshan Bagewadi, popular hip-hop/soul duo The Reminders, hip-hip dance troupe MaMa2 and DJ Man-O-Wax. Three performing arts organizations in the Midwestern United States hosted two musical residencies featuring. Organizations included North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, ND); A Center for the Arts (Fergus Falls, MN) and The Dennos Museum Center (Traverse City, MI). Over the course of the performance season, the participating artists reached over 6,700 youth and adults through 32 educational events, 11 community outreach activities, and 9 public performances. The Arts Midwest Conference is the preeminent booking and educational conference for the Midwest performing arts industry. The 28th Annual Conference was held in Kansas City, Missouri, September 9-12, 2015; it served 1,026 performing artists, managers, and agents; performing arts presenters/venues; and arts administrators from 42 states and the District of Columbia, five Canadian provinces, and the countries of Chile, China, France and Germany. Each year the four-day Arts Midwest Conference provides opportunities to network, learn, and experience live performing arts. Arts Midwest continues to manage Shakespeare in American Communities, which supports theater companies bringing professional productions of Shakespeare to high school and middle school students across the country. In 2016-2017, this national program of the National Endowment for the Arts awarded $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across the nation to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students. Each of the participating theater companies will present productions of Shakespeare plays to students from at least 10 schools. Accompanying educational activities include in-school residencies, workshops, and post-performance discussions. Through support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery builds and sustains international arts networks and highlights the rich diversity of the U.S. performing arts market. The program seeks to share exceptional performers who may be unfamiliar to foreign presenters, provide a forum for collaboration between cultural organizations, and ultimately expand the global opportunities for performing artists from across the Midwestern United States. In pursuit of this goal, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery brings booking representatives and leaders from global performing arts venues to the annual Arts Midwest Conference. International delegates receive a special orientation led by prominent U.S. speakers and Arts Midwest staff before fully participating in Conference programming, including visiting the exhibit hall, enjoying meals and social events, and attending performance showcases. In 2015, the NEA Performing Arts Discovery hosted five delegates representing four major presenting organizations in Chile and four delegates representing more than 50 theaters in China. The Native American / China Exchange features distinguished Native American artists conducting interactive workshops and performances in smaller cities and rural areas across China. Presented in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the project seeks to reach diverse Chinese publics including rural citizens, relocated or migrant workers, and ethnic minorities who may not normally participate in cultural programming. The program draws on the rich native traditions within the Midwest region along with Arts Midwests established network in China to encourage cross-cultural dialogue using traditional cultural practices. The 20152016 exchange featured artists Kevin Locke, Gene Tagaban, and Doug Good Feather who conducted activities in the city of Harbin and across the province of Heilongjiang, China. In total the program reached 2,394 individuals, including 810 youths, through 4 educational, 17 community, and 5 formal performance activities. PART III, LINE 4B (Continuation from Part III) Each community event lasts approximately one month and includes a kick-off event to launch the program locally, ideally attended by the mayor and other local luminaries; major events devoted specifically to the book (e.g. panel discussions and author reading); events using the book as a point of departure (e.g. film screenings and theatrical readings); and book discussions in diverse locations and aimed at a wide range of audiences. In 2015-2016, 75 nonprofit organizations (including arts organizations, universities, libraries, and municipalities) representing 31 states received grants totaling $1,012,500 to host Big Read programs between September 2015 and June 2016. Each community focused on one of 37 featured books, which included such well-known titles as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Call of the Wild' by Jack London, and the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. PART III, LINE 4C (Continuation from Part III) ArtsLab is rooted in the belief that the arts are essential to a Midwest filled with vibrant communities, competitive industries, and strong economies. Since fall 2014, Arts Midwest has been conducting research to understand existing, deeply held public values, and we have been pursuing communications strategies that demonstrate the connection between those values and arts, culture, and creative expression. These efforts are informing a long-term Creating Connection initiative, which is driven by a goal of making arts and culture a more recognized, valued, and expected part of everyday life through catalyzing social change around the way people support, advocate for, and expect creativity in their lives. Our activities include sharing our research at national conferences, providing trainings to arts organizations and community leaders across the country, and developing tools and resources to guide those leaders in identifying new audiences, engaging new stakeholders, and delivering programs and services that are aligned with community values. PART III, LINE 4D The Arts Midwest Printmaker Exchange is a visual arts program of Arts Midwest with support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Through a two-way exchange, the program encourages artistic development for established visual artists while building lasting relationships between artists and organizations in the United States and Chile. The program worked with two lead printmaking studios: Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, USA, and Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile. The program began with a leadership exchange: in June 2015, leaders from Artists Image Resource traveled to Chile, and in September 2016, leaders from Taller 99 traveled to Pittsburgh. These leadership visits created deep relationships between the two studios and facilitated planning for the following artist exchanges. From April 12May 12, 2016, two Chilean artists visited Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh. From June 6June 25, 2016, two U.S. artists visited Taller 99 in Santiago. Each set of artists worked in residency alongside local printmakers, explored new methods to create work, hosted discussions and exhibitions, and visited key cultural venues. The participating studios will expand on the relationship established through this exchange with activities planned separately in 20162017. PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 3 THE ORGANIZATION CONTRACTS WITH CLIFTONLARSONALLEN, LLP, AN ACCOUNTING FIRM, TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES. DURING FY 2016, THE ORGANIZATION PAID $41,246 FOR THESE SERVICES. PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 6 THE MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE NON-VOTING AND CONSIST OF THOSE INTERESTED IN THE GOALS AND PURPOSES OF THE CORPORATION. MEMBERSHIP IS ATTAINED UPON APPLICATION. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B A DETAILED REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S PRESIDENT & CEO AND BY THE TREASURER. THE FULL BOARD CONDUCTED A FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE RETURN PRIOR TO FILING. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C Each director, officer, key employee and member of a committee with board delegated powers shall complete and sign a conflicts of interest policy annual statement at the time of his or her initial election or appointment and annually thereafter. An interested person may make a presentation at the board or committee meeting regarding the proposed transaction or arrangement, but after such presentation, there interested person shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the proposed transaction or arrangement that results in the conflict of interest. Additionally (1) the chairperson of the board (or committee) shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement (2) after exercising due diligence, the board (or committee) shall determine whether the organization can obtain a move advantageous transaction or arrangement with reasonable efforts from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest (3) If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonable attainable under the circumstances that would not give rise to a conflict of interest, the board (or committee) shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested directors (or committee members), whether the transaction or arrangement is in the organizations best interest and for its own benefit and whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to the organization and shall make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement in conformity with such determination. Detailed minutes of board of committee meetings are maintained to document all such situations. PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15A The executive committee sets compensation for the president & CEO. The executive committee uses the following procedures to set the compensation of the president & CEO (1) for the purpose of setting the president & CEOs compensation, the executive committee shall be made up entirely of individuals who do not have a conflict of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement (2) the executive committee obtains and relies upon appropriate data as to comparability prior to making its determination regarding the compensation of the president & CEO. Appropriate comparability data includes compensation levels paid by organizations of similar size and complexity nationally, regionally and locally, and current compensation surveys. Detailed documents are maintained of all deliberations and decisions. The process of determining the compensation of the president & CEO last included review and approval by independent persons, comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation in 2015. The executive committee delegates to the president & CEO the authority to set compensation for other executives. PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 The organization does not make its governing documents or conflict of interest policy available to the public. The organizations financial statements are made available to the public through the Minnesota Attorney Generals office. FORM 990 PART IX LINE 11G DESCRIPTION:OTHER PROFESSIONAL FEES TOTAL FEES:1105560