Organizational Stability Grant
Organizational Stability Grant
Retaining the Artistic Director.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; 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.
Roxann Berglund: musician; Leah Yellowbird: multi-medium visual artist; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Classie Dudley: ARAC Arts Leadership Fellow; Joan Farnam: ceramicist, founder of North Shore Arts Scene.
ACHF Arts Access
The goal of our project is to retain Benjamin Nilles through September, giving MSO time to develop operating plans for a range of likely scenarios, including resumption of normal activities. Measurable outcomes are: ? MSO will retain its Artistic Director/Conductor through September ? MSO will have plans in place to resume operations at a reduced budget ? MSO will have plans in place to keep performance options available for musicians, and listening options available for audience members, in a range of scenarios. Results will be measured in September by the board. We will be successful if our Artistic Director is still under contract to MSO, if our revised budget is sustainable in the then-current economic climate, and if the board has well-defined plans in place for a range of likely scenarios.
The goal of our project was to retain Benjamin Nilles through September, giving MSO time to develop operating plans for a range of likely scenarios, including resumption of normal activities. Measurable outcomes were: ? MSO will retain its Artistic Director/Conductor through September ? MSO will have plans in place to resume operations at a reduced budget ? MSO will have plans in place to keep performance options available for musicians, and listening options available for audience members, in a range of scenarios Maestro Nilles has successfully been retained, and the other measurable outcomes have been met as well.