Quick Start Grants
Quick Start Grants
2018 National Poetry Month Reading: Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
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 Schubert: 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; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor.
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Our primary goal for this project is to host a noteworthy National Poetry Month reader to headline our series' 2017-18 season. The more general outcome for our project is to connect notable poets and community members in a meaningful way that will continue to help nourish a healthy literary community in our region. To measure our stated outcome, our Board members will attend the scheduled event, identify ourselves to the audience and stress that we welcome questions and feedback. We will track attendance by taking a head count, and we will meet after the reading to discuss both the specific event and our ongoing work. We keep notes on the entire season to assess its strengths, event attendance, and any feedback or questions that may have arisen. Finally, we follow up with all featured poets to see how they felt about the reading and their experience in Duluth. Each year, the lessons and insights we have gleaned help us refine goals and identify proposed readers for the following season.
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