Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center will work with Roosevelt High School to teach students poetry, photography, and sculptural welding skills to create interdisciplinary, community engaged public art.
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.
John Ginocchio: Director of bands and professor of music at Southwest Minnesota State University; Roberta Gray: Director of Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls; David Hamlow: Installation artist and teacher; Gregory Neidhart: Director of Winona State University arts administration program, chair of art and design department, music faculty; Jennifer Nicklay: Grad student at U of M in the ecology of urban architecture; former education and outreach coordinator, Weavers Guild of Minnesota; Kathleen Ray: Published playwright and founder of Playing On Purpose Productions; Suchitra Sairam: Dancer, choreographer, and founder of Kala Vandanam Dance Company
ACHF Arts Education
Roosevelt High School students will develop poetry, photography, and sculptural welding skills. We will use standards-based performance assessments measuring the students on the create-perform-respond model. Student and teaching artist feedback and self-assessment surveys will also be compiled. 2: Roosevelt High School students will create interdisciplinary, community-engaged public art. We will track progress towards completion of the public artworks and student participation in a community celebration revealing the work. We will gather informal feedback from students, teaching artists, partners, and the wider community.
Roosevelt students gained poetry and sculptural welding skills, and more elementary and high school students explored art forms not widely available. We gathered feedback from students anecdotally and through class evaluations. Teaching artists provided feedback throughout this extended project that helped us to make adjustments as needed and deliver our intended outcome. 2: Interdisciplinary teams of Roosevelt students created a community-engaged work of public art that reflects their perspectives and values. We tracked our (much slower than expected) progress throughout the three years of this project. We used feedback from students, school teachers and administrators, and CAFAC teaching artists guide our progress and adjustments along the way.
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