Interactive Media Funders and Supporters

Many of the Interactive Media Groups projects are financially supported by a number of generous funders. These include:

General Mills Foundation- supporting our Institute's leadership in the development and installation of the 15 award winning interactive multimedia learning stations throughout the museum as well as the initial development of the museums web site.

Minnesota State Legislature and the Minnesota Department of Children Families and Learning - providing generous support for the formation and development of the Integrated Arts Information Access project which in 1998 was publicly launched as ArtsConnectEd, an online art education resource for teachers and students. Portions of this funding were also used in the development of the "World Ceramics" and the award winning "Get the Picture: Thinking about Photographs"online educational units.

MCIWorldcom- providing support for the development and marketing of the public portion of the ArtsConnectEd website as well as the design and development of the Designing Spaces and Places thematic unit within the ArtsNetMinnesota website.

Blandin Foundation- supporting the formation and development of ArtsNetMinnesota, a collaborative online curriculum project between the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Dayton Hudson Corporation- in providing technical consulting and usability testing for the ArtsConnectEd project.