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Dakota Creative Connections Suspends Grantmaking

February 25, 2010—

Over the course of two years, artists from North Dakota and South Dakota collaborated with the Bush Foundation to explore new ways of supporting the professional development of artists in the region through the Dakota Creative Connections grant program

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Fellow Bios

Matthew Bakkom

2008 Bush Artist Fellowship
Minnesota

Career Field: Visual Arts
Secondary Field: Photography

Matthew Bakkom (Minneapolis, Minn.) received his BA from the University of Virginia in 1991 and his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2007. Since the early 1990s he has worked as a visual artist and organizer of projects in North America and Europe. He has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions at various venues including the Walker Art Center, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), the Queens Museum of Art (New York) and Le Space Elektra (Paris). He has received awards of support from the Jerome Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris.


 





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