Arts Learning

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,500
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
ARENA Dances, Inc. AKA Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
September 2018
End Date
August 2019
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Ramsey
Hennepin
Ramsey
Project Overview

Arts Learning

Project Details

ARENA DANCES will engage Creative Arts Secondary School, Highland Park Senior High School, and Roosevelt High School each in two-week long residencies that encourage dance and movement literacy and culminate in the performance of new student dance works.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

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.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Bradley Althoff: Managing producer and senior project manager, Classical MPR; Roberta Gray: Director of Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls; Jane Gudmundson: Former education director, Plains Art Museum in Fargo; Kao Ly Ilean Her: Chief executive officer, Hmong Elders Center; former executive director, State of Minnesota Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans; Paul LaJeunesse: Assistant professor of art, College of St Scholastica; Andrew Nordin: Painter; Arts Board grantee; Molly Sheeley Melton: Educator, school for Environmenta Studies in Apple Valley

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2017 Regular Session, chapter 91, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,500
Other Funds Leveraged
$3,900
Direct expenses
$30,400
Administration costs
$3,300
Number of full time equivalents funded
1.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Students build a working knowledge of dance language and aesthetics, and apply it to analyzing, evaluating, documenting, creating and performing dance. This project will be evaluated through daily discussions with the dance company dancers, teachers and students. Along with evaluation forms following the residency, rehearsal videos, regular meetings with school staff, and community feedback. 2: Participants will be given a unique opportunity to create and perform along with professional artists. This outcome will be evaluated through participant journals, video documentation of culminating performance, and student/teacher/dancer evaluation forms.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Students' engaged with theater performance through dance and theater education of dance, increasing interest in the arts, academic achievement and com. Outcomes were evaluated through surveys, interviews with students/teachers. Data determined progress in key areas described above. We used this information daily after each residency day, understanding the need to be flexible. 2: Educators learned to integrate theater into classroom design, lesson structure and curriculum delivery to strengthen the quality of instruction. Educators were interviewed and surveyed to assess the impact of professional development, working with artists and networking with other teachers on the quality and effectiveness of instruction.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
achieved most of the proposed outcomes
Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Recipient Board Members
Carter Averbeck, Marlys Gould, Catherine Malmberg Dannenbring, Tom Hines(emiritus), Anshul Bhardwaj, , Joe Cook, Jessi Fett, Gustave Mutombo
Project Manager
First Name
Mathew
Last Name
Janczewski
Organization Name
ARENA Dances, Inc. AKA Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES
Street Address
3901 Poplar Dr
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55422
Phone
(612) 804-0238
Email
arenadances@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
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