Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
47 North, a video series of original songwriters and performers for local public access television, on YouTube and as a video resumes for performers.
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.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate; Johnnie Hyde: choreographer and dance teacher, publisher; Rena Hartman: executive director, Mesabi Community Orchestra.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The Goal of this project is to provide a full season of the program "47 North" to the Greater Itasca Area and the general public. The program began a pilot season in Fall 2018. ICTV funded the production in its entirety during the premier season and is looking for support for another 10-episode season. Through ten additional episodes of 47 North, Itasca Community Television will provide a venue for performance of original songs both vocal and instrumental. The programs will be aired without cost throughout the cable television network of Paul Bunyan Communications and Mediacom within the Greater Itasca Area. In addition, they will be premiered and available to the public on YouTube. This secondary viewing space will allow these original artists to have a professionally recorded video available as an online resume' of their talents. The host of the program and the artists have all donated their time. The premier season is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/watchictv. The measured outcomes would include: The Completion of 10, in-studio recordings of 47 North with the host and one-to-three musicians per episode. The Uploading of the edited performance to YouTube Growth in YouTube viewership per episode. Survey data from the artists that demonstrates the show had a positive impact on their performance schedule.
10 Episodes twelve Artists Featured ten Online shows available for artists to use as online resumes ten Shows Featured on Paul Bunyan Communications and Mediacom total airing 500 times (excluding the last program which just started running). nine Show Premiered and replayed on Facebook for a total number of views of 4,836 (excluding the last program which just started running). ten Shows Premiered and replayed on YouTube for a total number of views of 1,780 (excluding the last program which just started running).
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