Community Arts
Community Arts
Powderhorn Porchfest Funding for Powderhorn Porchfest, a neighborhood music festival that is free to the public, family friendly, and features over 20 local musical and spoken word groups performing on residential porches. The festival will take place in the Powderhorn neighborhood in September 2017.
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.
Mica Anders: General administration; Maya Beck: Artistic, general administration, community service, development; Andi Cheney: Organizational development, general administration, finance; Tia-Simone Gardner: Artistic, youth programming, community service, development; Alneida Madrigal: General administration, organizational development, youth programming; Laura Nahri: Fundraising, general management, administration, organizational development; Ricardo Vazquez: Artistic, audience development, marketing, community education; Magnolia Yang Sao Yia: Artistic, community education, youth programming.
ACHF Arts Access
Quantitative: (1) Attract approximately 1,000 attendees. (2) Partner with approximately 65 individual community artists. Qualitative: (1) Deepen community members view of positive, diverse and cultural engagement activities. (2) Provide opportunity to co-create a relevant and artistic experience across artists, residents and local community organizations. (1) Utilize an incentive based check-in system to connect with most attendees that provides a distribution center for feedback collection. (2) Digitally distribute an artist and partner focused post-event survey to capture insight around event strengths and opportunities.
The three most significant outcomes for the 2017 Powderhorn Porchfest relate to securing twenty local performing artists across a broad array of musical genres. Secondly, the event attracted attendees from an estimated 1,800 people based on feedback from event volunteers and porch hosts. From a qualitative view, performing artists continued to score the festival as one its favorite Summer events.
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