Community Arts
Community Arts
2017 New Griots Festival Funding for the 2017 New Griots Festival, a 10-day event dedicated to celebrating emerging Black artists in the Twin Cities. The Festival features 10 Black artists from a variety of disciplines. Each participating artist will hold two performances/showings, conduct two free arts?-centered classes, participate on panels, and host a live studio session where community members will be invited to ?watch me work.? The festival will be held in July 2017 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Sarah Gerdes: Youth programming, artistic, general administration; Frangena Johnson: Artistic, community education, audience development, marketing; Laney Ohman: Audience development, marketing, computer systems, web design, fundraising; Dan Pinkerton: Education, artistic, computer systems, web design; Suzanne Roberts: Artistic, community education, education; Gregory Rose: Artistic, education, community education; Lula Saleh: Artistic; Jovan Speller: Artistic, general administration, community education; Carla Steen: Artistic, audience development, marketing.
ACHF Cultural Heritage
A measurable outcome will be that Twin Cities audiences are introduced to 10 new emerging Black artists from a variety of artistic disciplines. Additionally, we hope that emerging Black artists identified from the festival are able to grow and advance their careers through networking, professional development, and mentorship as a result of festival participation. Audiences will be surveyed. The survey will contain several questions, the bulk of which will ask audiences to share how familiar they are with the artists presented, what their experience was of the festival, and how likely will they be to attend a similar event (or an event by one of the festival artists) in the future. Festival artists will be surveyed as well. Their survey will attempt to address questions around how they see their career trajectory before and after the festival, the benefits of the festival inclusion, and their willingness to remain in conversation with their fellow artists.
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