Art Project Grant
Art Project Grant
Harlem Quartet.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; 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; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; 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; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
1) Present a well-executed outreach with an exciting and engaging performance by the quartet at Lincoln Park Middle School that encourages participation and generates positive feedback from students, staff and parents and potentially drives some of them to the concert. 2) Bring together at least 50 residents of Edgewood in Hermantown along with family and staff to participate in the Harlem Quartet performance event and draw three – five seniors to the concert as well. 3) Attract an audience of 200 people to Harlem Quartet’s concert at Mitchell Auditorium. 4) Raise visibility and awareness of Matinee Musicale’s efforts in presenting concerts and outreach performances for all of Duluth. Concert attendance will be measured through box office audits of tickets sold and total number in the venue. The outreach activities will be evaluated both in terms of attendance and engagement / interaction between the students and members of the Harlem Quartet at the Lincoln Middle School and also, the responsiveness and interaction among senior citizens participating in the Edgewood in Hermantown outreach event. Analysis of concert audience and outreach attendees feedback through questionnaires, online comments and in-person feedback will be used to evaluate the effectiveness Matinee Musicale in raising awareness about its work to a more diverse audience.
188 tickets were sold to the Harlem Quartet performance at Mitchell Auditorium on November 11. The audience provided both written and in person feedback and were very pleased with the excellence of the performance as well as the selection of repertoire performed by Harlem Quartet. 223 seniors and adults at the Edgewood at Hermantown assisted living facility attended a performance and Q and A outreach by the quartet. There was very strong positive feedback from those residents who responded to a written survey following the event. 200 students from the 6th,7th and 8th grades at Lincoln Park Middle school attended an outreach performance and Q and A by Harlem Quartet. Over 50% of the students participated in a written survey following the outreach and were overwhelmingly positive about the experience.
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