Arts Learning
Arts Learning
The Copper Street Brass program, Big Ears and the Blue Ox, will teach active listening skills in an interactive musical context with those who are most intensely learning and practicing their communication skills: young people ages 2 - 10. The program will be presented in elementary schools in small communities in greater Minnesota.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Susan Berdahl: Marketing and grant writing contractor; Karen Charles: Founder, artistic/executive director, Threads Dance Project; Nolita Christensen: Community and nonprofit management consultant; woodworker; Alexander Legeros: Development officer, Museum of Russian Art; bassoonist; Kathleen Ray: Published playwright and founder of Playing On Purpose Productions; Therese Vogel: Community education director, Ulen-Hitterdal Public Schools; executive director, Top Hat Theatre; Sydney Willcox: Painting and ceramics teacher, Como Park Senior High School
ACHF Arts Education
Children apply the difference between passive and active listening, learn music terminology and apply those terms to different expressions of music. Evaluators measure progress by observing each of the program's interactive activities and analyzing teacher, student and community surveys. 2: Families with little access to professional arts learning activities engage with professional teaching artists in a comfortable, accessible setting. Evaluators measure community engagement with attendance data, community surveys and observational data.
Children applied the difference between passive and active listening, learning music terminology and applied those terms to different music. Artist evaluations, teacher/parent/staff surveys. 2: Families with little access to professional arts learning activities engaged with professional teaching artists in a comfortable, accessible setting. Attendance counts and data recored, teacher/parent/staff surveys.
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