Partners in Arts Participation
Partners in Arts Participation
Avinity will collaborate with COMPAS to bring its Artful Aging program to low-income seniors at LEE Center, a HUD 202 site in Hibbing, bringing immersive arts camps on-site to seniors who lack access to arts.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Officer at Large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary?s University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse, Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Ceramic artist. former executive director of the Minnesota Project.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
William Adams: Public policy consultant; community leader of Kaddatz Galleries creation; Lydia Four Horns: General manager of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Cultural Center; Annie Henderson: Owner, Citywide Appraisals, Forager Brewery, and Kutzky Market; cofounder C4: Concerned Citizens for a Creative Community; Jennifer Lang: Violinist; music teacher at Saint Paul Conservatory of Music and the French American School of Minneapolis; Rebecca Timm: Executive director, Nokomis East Neighborhood Association; Lori Williams: Corporate and foundation relations gift officer, Hamline University
ACHF Arts Access
This project will expand a new partnership with COMPAS to bring arts programs to low-income, frail older adults who would not otherwise access arts. Interviews with participants about experience with artists and access to art forms, interviews with staff about quality of artists, number of participants, plans for expansion to other sites. 2: Artful Aging is the first component of the AvinityU model which will use arts participation to fulfill strategic goal of robust programming at LEE Center. Surveys with participants, staff, leadership to gauge interest in Artful learning as permanent program component for AvinityU at LEE Center.
Five art camps were held at LEE Center in Hibbing. COMPAS artists were selected to support older adults in telling life stories through art forms. Project evaluation included staff observations, participant self-evaluations through pre- and post-surveys, and by teaching artist self-evaluations administered through COMPAS. A final reflection with LEE Center staff was held to review the project. 2: Five, 3-day art camps were held over a five month period at a low-income senior living community in rural Minnesota that would otherwise not have programming. Participants said that they were able to make friends and build community, gain confidence in new (and familiar) art forms, and take risks as they learned together. Staff said residents got out of their rooms and learned new things about each other.