Arts Access
Arts Access
Mixed Blood Theatre will increase opportunities for people with disabilities by developing, expanding, and increasing programming to disparate disability communities to ensure that they are welcomed, accommodated, and affirmed.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; 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; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Heather Allen: Program officer, Central Minnesota Arts Board; Adam Courville: St Paul Public Schools fund development and grant management; Robert Kern: Photographer; Arts Board grantee; Rupa Nair: Dancer with Katha Dance Theatre; cost controls specialist with construction company Weston Solutions; Mónica Segura-Schwartz: Board member, GREAT Theatre, Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs, St Cloud School District
ACHF Arts Access
Audiences from Minnesota's disparate disability communities feel they have an authentic relationship to Mixed Blood Theatre. Participation of audiences from disparate disability communities increases, they invite friends and others to join them; demand for more programming is expressed. 2: Mixed Blood Theatre will demonstrate that it has changed, expanded and enriched the way it connects to diverse members of the disability community. Partnerships with affiliated disability groups grow in number and quality, the number of audiences from disparate disability groups increases, Mixed Blood becomes more widely known within and among disparate disability communities.
Increased opportunities with expanded access tools ensured that disability access was not a one-off but part of a consistent effort to enable access. Surveys, anecdotes, observations, responses to after-show emails. 2: Our network in the disabled community has expanded, groups are more interested in engaging and participating in program offerings. Disability Advocacy Council/Liaison feedback, surveys, anecdote, staff observation.
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