Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Poet, Yuko Taniguchi, will provide a creative writing and origami program for psychiatric nurses at Mayo Clinic to develop a sustainable educational model for engaging and aiding in healing adolescents with mental health challenges.
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.
Nolita Christensen: Community and nonprofit management consultant; woodworker; Christina Frederickson: Educator, gardener, and actor; Molly Gamble: Artist; former arts event planner at Maryland Institute College of Art; Heather Haynes: ; Sara Raappana: Published poet; editor of Cellpoems, a poetry journal; Norah Rendell: Executive director, Center for Irish Music; musician
ACHF Arts Education
The creative writing experiences will help prepare the psychiatric nurses to share the power of writing with the adolescents with mental illness. We will evaluate the nurses' readiness for facilitating creative writing sessions at the end of the project period. Their self-view as writers will be evaluated by a pre- and post-surveys before and after the fifteen sessions.
The staff can integrate the creative writing method to lead group sessions for adolescents with mental illness. We have evaluated the nurses' experience from facilitating creativity based activities at the end of the project period. Their self-view as creative facilitators were documented through post-surveys after the fifteen sessions.
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