Small Grants - COVID-19
Small Grants - COVID-19
Requesting funding to assist in creating "Short Shorts" (1-5min films) to further hope around equity.
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.
Drew Digby: ARAC Executive Director; Holly Hackett-Rich: ARAC Grants Manager; Erin Turner: ARAC Operations Manager; Steve Wick: ARAC Office Coordinator.
ACHF Arts Access
I believe such a project will uplift everyone. Bringing about thoughts of hope, bringing about healing, bringing about whats possible the more we continue this work to be better within society. Its also a reflective project in the wake of the crisis, I hope the impact will also be that people get a chance to face themselves in the comfort of their own space and begin the hard work of healing which is first waking up to the realities they may or may not have missed out on. Moments like this are great for self reflection and healthy shedding of anxiety and working towards healthy living within society. This is my hope, with stories, they have a way of impacting a range of people differently. In all, I believe for the better. Social media can be interactive so there is the certain, comments, likes, loves, shares aspect thats self evident. Yet the more tasking is that on the introspective impact. I hope to follow up with some text check in's on people and see if they are willing to share their stories with us (which doesn't need to be published).
Achieved different goals. Engaged with 10 artists. Designed a culturally diverse visual concept.