Partners in Arts Participation
Partners in Arts Participation
Ecumen Brooks and CountrySide will collaborate with a COMPAS teaching artist to develop the artistic skills of 34 senior residents through a three-course program of multisensory, mosaic, and watercolor 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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, 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. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; 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.
Robin Cruze: Assistant executive director, Wirth Center; president of HOBY MN; Janette Davis: Artist and advocate; founder of Bridge View Center Inc.; Victoria Hong: Illustrator, facilitator, and consultant; Anna Ostendorf: Program director, ArtReach; Madeline Phelps: ; Kylie Rieke: Visual artist and potter; vice president, T-Bird Community Arts Board; Chelsea Unold: Undergraduate program coordinator, University of Minnesota College of Design; Christina Woods: Executive director, Duluth Art Institute
ACHF Arts Access
Program participants will feel a stronger sense of community, and therefore a higher quality of life, by the conclusion of the program. At the end of each residency, COMPAS will work with Ecumen to provide evaluative surveys to the teaching artist and staff during each residency to use with participants.
Program participants felt a stronger sense of community during a very trying time, and therefore a higher quality of life, by the conclusion of the pr. Compas provided an evaluative survey. This indicated that residents did indeed enjoy the safe connection during a very isolating time. Ecumen Owatonna caregivers also noted the generally improved moods of program participants on class days.