Arts and Cultural Heritage
Arts and Cultural Heritage
An Artist in Residency with Sibley East Middle and High School choir and band students with rehearsals, masterclass sessions, a class about Baroque music and period instruments, and a concert; May 2019. Funds are for artists, publicity and rentals.
Steve Davis: member of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, member of the Minnesota State University/Community Orchestra, volunteer for Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, volunteer for New Ulm Suzuki School of Music; Denice Evers: retired teacher, volunteer with the Springfield Community Theater; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: Martin County 4-H coordinator, former education coordinator at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, board member for the Martin County Area Foundation, board member for the Fairmont Community Education; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, art teacher, and a member and instructor at the Waseca Art Center; Margie Larson: visual artist, retired coordinator in the International Students Office at Minnesota State University Mankato; Charles Luedtke: retired college Professor of Music, New Ulm and member of the Sioux Trails Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Randy Mediger: retired principal, teacher, charter member of LeSueur Community Theater; Liz Miller: visual artist, college professor of Art at Minnesota State University Mankato; Lauren Shoemaker: music instructor at Saint Peter Public Schools; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, executive director of the 410 Project Gallery Mankato; Carol Soma: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Kee Civic Theatre; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, volunteer on Sibley County Fair Board and community festivals.
Steve Davis: member of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, member of the Minnesota State University/Community Orchestra, volunteer for Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, volunteer for New Ulm Suzuki School of Music; Denice Evers: retired teacher, volunteer with the Springfield Community Theater; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: Martin County 4-H coordinator, former education coordinator at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, board member for the Martin County Area Foundation, board member for the Fairmont Community Education; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, retired art teacher, member and instructor at the Waseca Art Center; Margie Larson: visual artist, retired coordinator in the International Students Office at Minnesota State University Mankato; Charles Luedtke: retired college professor of Music, New Ulm and member of the Sioux Trails Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Randy Mediger: retired principal, retired teacher, charter member of LeSueur Community Theater; Liz Miller: visual artist, college professor of Art at Minnesota State University Mankato; Lauren Shoemaker: music instructor at Saint Peter Public Schools; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, executive director of the 410 Project Gallery in Mankato; Carol Soma: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Kee Civic Theatre; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, volunteer on Sibley County Fair Board, volunteer for community festivals.
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Brenda Byron (507) 833-8721
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The number of Minnesotans who are able to participate in the arts increases. The quality, types and number of arts opportunities in our region, and the organizations or venues that offer them increases. The number of Minnesotans who are engaged in arts ed. Our evaluation survey will be conducted through the La Grande Bande website. Participants of the program’s activities including the masterclasses, the performance/lecture, the open rehearsals, and the Finale Concert, will be invited to take the survey. The invitations to take the survey will be given verbally at the time of each event, directly in the program booklet, and through email communications.
We distributed the survey link using small pieces of paper. These were available to the students of the masterclass sessions, the lecture/demonstration, and the open rehearsals. Concert attendees were able to locate a link in the program booklet. We also sent a reminder email to ticket purchasers. This information confirmed the community's desire for continued programming similar to this project. This is why we are designing our next season in a similar fashion. It also clarified that Facebook Ads were not as good at driving attendance as we had predicted they would be. Newspaper articles, newspaper ads, posters, and word-of-mouth were by far the best ways of advertising the finale concert and open rehearsal sessions.
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