Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
Bee Friendly Arts Camp.
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.
Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Patricia Canelake: visual artist; Kendra Carlson: writing and theater instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth; Serenity Schoonover: writer.
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Drew Digby (218) 722-0952
ACHF Arts Education
Our goal is to help the Bee Friendy Arts Camp participants explore various art forms and ideas and to discover their authentic voices in affecting positive change in our community. Our measurable outcomes are that participants in the Bee Friendly Art Camp report: 1) an increased sense of personal 'agency' and 'empowerment' to improve quality of life in our community 2) an understanding of the threat to pollinators and why pollinator protection is a community priority 3) an understanding of the ways art sparks understanding of sustainability and environmental protection 4) more skills in using art to express sustainability and interconnections in efforts to improve our community. 5) an increased commitment to engaging in personal efforts to improve our community. Through interviews and pre and post-assessments we will measure and report improvement in the areas identified in the measurable outcomes. We also want the participants in this pilot Bee Friendly Art Camp to review the whole experience and make recommendations for improving the Art Camp and other community engagement projects for future participants. We will document and share results from this pilot so that we and others can learn from this experience.
The Bee Friendly Arts Camp used an arts-based service-learning approach, both in the student-led design process for creating the curriculum and during the Camp itself. Our goal was to help students see that they can help change the world with their creativity. They explored various art forms and ideas and to discover their authentic voices in affecting positive change by using the region's shared concern in support of pollinators as a positive expression of care for the environment and each other. The curriculum was designed in consultation with artists, conservationists, beekeepers, cooks, gardeners and educators on the Fond du Lac Reservation and Carlton County. Leveraging partners' strengths and encouraging social cohesion was at the core of the camp's community-wide creative collaboration. Culminating performances were held at County Seat Theater and the Honey Bee Festival the first weekend in August.
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