Community Arts Learning Grant
Community Arts Learning Grant
Lake Superior Youth Chorus Honor Choir 2018
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goal Statements: 1. To bring together young singers in our region for a day of community building through workshop and performance of choral music by composers of merit. 2. To give young singers a unique and positive choral music experience. 3. To give music area music teachers the chance to connect and share teaching resources. Measurable Outcomes: 1. Young singers experience community by singing in a choir with 100+ school aged peers. 2. Young singers sing a varied repertoire of music accurately, expressively, with healthy vocal tone and good intonation. 3. Teachers receive new ideas and activities to use in their music classrooms. 1. Upon completion of the event, singer participants will complete a brief survey. They will be asked to write one word to describe singing in the honor choir, and to share the names and hometowns of 2 people they met at Honor Choir and something unusual they have in common. 2. Teachers participants will be asked to reflect on ideas/activities they will take back to their classrooms. 3. Lake Superior Youth Chorus staff and guest clinicians will provide a narrative evaluation of the project. 4. In addition, general audience response will be observed as well as informal comments and any unsolicited communications.
1. Young singers experience community by singing in a choir with 100+ school aged peers. Over 100 singers were hand-selected by their music teachers from over 22 schools, coming together as one choir. The post-event evaluation showed names of new friends that the participants made on this day. 2. Young singers sing a varied repertoire of music accurately, expressively, with healthy vocal tone and good intonation. All singers had the opportunity to workshop their pieces with the directors of Lake Superior Youth Chorus, receiving high-level music education, building on the foundation they learned in their school music classes. 3. Teachers receive new ideas and activities to use in their music classrooms. After the presentation from Dr. Karen Howard, many teachers returned to their classrooms with a new perspective on global music and how to integrate cultural music into the classroom. Many teachers chose to use some of the pieces performed during the event in their own schools.
Other, local or private