Liz Engleman speaks about the 12-day retreat at Tofte Lake Center they offered as part of the legacy grant funding for bi-POC and parent artists in Minnesota.
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Opening: This is Minnesota’s Legacy: A look at the organizations and people who have benefitted from Minnesota’s unique Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.
BRITT AAMODT: Tofte Lake Center is an artist retreat center. Music and sfx lake water
LIZ ENGELMAN: It’s nestled in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota.
AAMODT: Where artists can set aside routines and responsibilities to spend a week in nature with no meals to cook, no deadlines, no morning alarms…unless they want them. Liz Engleman is executive director of the center by Tofte Lake in Ely. sfx alarm clock
ENGLEMAN: Sometimes we’re so plugged in that it runs out the battery.
And a frazzled artist isn’t necessarily a creative one. Just a tired one. Sfx snoring?
AAMODT: With the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, the Tofte Lake Center was able to offer no-cost residencies.
ENGLEMAN: We provided a 12-day residency for BIPOC artists from Minnesota and a seven-day residency for parent-artists from Minnesota. Music
AAMODT: And they gave the artists something in short supply in their everyday lives—more time…to think, play, make good work.
Closing: Minnesota’s Legacy is a production of AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, more at ampers dot org.