Community Arts
Community Arts
Artist Collaboration Project Funding for the Artist Collaboration Project, during which Prairie Fire Lady Choir members will engage with local songwriter and musician Chris Koza, who will provide songwriting/arrangement workshops and create original and revised arrangements for the choir, direct rehearsals, and collaborate in a finale show. Two workshops will be held at Richfield Lutheran Church in Minneapolis during June and July 2017 and the finale show will be held in November 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.
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 Arts Access
Chris Koza will lead two workshops for the choir, each in which a minimum of 25 choir members will participate, and a majority of participants report that the workshops helped them grow musically. Chris Koza and Prairie Fire Lady Choir will create a minimum of 6 musical compositions (or roughly 30 minutes of musical content), and Chris Koza will participate in at least 3 rehearsals with Prairie Fire Lady Choir over the course of the grant project. The board (Red Hot Coals) will evaluate the project and its artistic goals as part of the annual choir member end-of-season survey. Survey questions will be designed to specifically measure whether the artistic goals were met.
Audience members said they were moved at the impact of the music, from both a compositional and performative standpoint.Chris was challenged in notating music and adapting to new methods of teaching and collaborating. He describes the work as some of the most involved and intricate that he’s had the opportunity to create and it was incredibly valuable to his ongoing learning as an artist.
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