Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Icebox Radio Theater 2018/19 Season.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Johnnie Hyde: choreographer and dance teacher, publisher; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Keiko Williams: musician, Executive Director at Donald G. Gardner Humanities Trust; Sarah Brokke-Erickson: painter, fine art instructor at the College of St. Scholastica.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The goal of this project is to continue to improve the quality of our shows in our quest to 'bring the Northland's stories to the world'. The Internet is a crowded place so we must continue to improve the quality of our writing, directing, acting and sound effects art if we are to earn a larger audience and fulfill our mission for our artists, our audience and our community. Our plan is to use website metrics that measure audience size and reaction to judge the overall quality of our plays. To do this, we will need to equate the quality of our work with how the audience interacts with it. Primarily, we'll be using metrics from our podcast host site Spreaker.com to help us judge how our show is being received. The two main metrics on Spreaker.com are 'Downloads' indicating the number of times our shows have been downloaded, and 'Live Listens' indicating the number of times someone has clicked the 'play' button to listen to one of our shows while visiting our page at Spreaker.com. We will chart these two metrics over the year hoping to see growth in both statistics.
Our plan was to use website metrics that measure audience size and reaction to judge the overall quality of our plays. To do this, we needed to equate the quality of our work with how the audience interacts with it. Primarily, we used metrics from our podcast host site Spreaker.com. The two main metrics on Spreaker.com are ‘Downloads’ indicating the number of times our shows have been downloaded, and ‘Live Listens’ indicating the number of times someone has clicked the ‘play’ button to listen to one of our shows while visiting our page at Spreaker.com. In both cases, the numbers for this season declined. Downloads for the entire season were just over 6,000, while on-line streaming listens were just under 1,500. Both these numbers were considerably lower than we'd hoped.
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