Small Grants - COVID-19
Small Grants - COVID-19
Charlie Parr has been forced to cancel all tour dates for the foreseeable future.
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
We hope to provide hope for the general public by providing free access to live music via live streaming + promote locally owned businesses that are impacted by the current shutdown. By the number of people reached through each stream and donations raised during this time period.
Charlie Parr has performed eight livestream concerts during this grant period. All concert streams we free to the general public with an option to contribute to Charlie's gofundme page as a way to raise revenue for all of his live concerts being cancelled. The livestream concerts garnered more than 250,000 views and raised in excess of $25,000.00.