Small Grants - COVID-19
Small Grants - COVID-19
Earth Day Environmental Storytelling and Stewardship Program.
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
The desired impact of this project is to keep people connected and engaged with this inspiring time of year while practicing social distancing and self-quarantining. We think the linkage of the Environmental Storytelling and Stewardship interviews with the STAND BY ME (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE) project will help motivate people to take care of each other through the pandemic. We hope it will continue building trust and community resiliency. We will know from the number of posts and uploads and the number of 'likes' and positive comments received if this online version of the project is successful. We will also know by the number of people who express interest and then participate in the 2021 Small World Summit.
Our artistic goals were to motivate people to take care of each other and to stay engaged with the hopefulness of spring while practicing social distancing and self-quarantining. From the extensive social media posts, 'likes,' positive comments and funds raised, we believe these artistic events did build trust and community resiliency. We also have a strong committee of people ready to work on the 2021 Document Spring, Small World Summit, Joy Harjo's visit, and Bee Friendly Events.
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