Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Young Artists Initiative 2020 Summer Theater Experience
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: 826 MSP Program Director; Craig Dunn: Arts Accessibility Consultant; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Professional; Alejandra Pelinka: City of Bloomington Director of Creative Placemaking; Tommy Sar: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Coordinator of Community Programs; Lue Vang: McKnight Foundation Accountant; Donna Saul Millen: TPT-Twin Cities PBS Events Director; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney; Robyn Cline: City of Savage Economic Development Commissioner
Mike Alberti: General Administration, Education, Artistic; Judy Cooper Lyle: Artistic, Fundraising, Education; Frangena Johnson: Artistic, Community Education, Audience Development / Marketing; Halee Kirkwood: Artistic, Volunteerism, Education; Vince Leo: Artistic, Education, General Management / Administration; Bill Venne: Fundraising, General Management/ Administration/ Support; Dah Zar: Artistic, Education, Program Development.
ACHF Arts Education
Quantitative outcomes 1. 38 youth participating as actors (30), assistants to artistic staff (2) and tech support (6) 2. 700 audience members attending performances 3. 30 Summer Blast youth (described in narrative) take advantage of vouchers to bring family members to performances. Qualitative outcomes1. 95% of participants say that they would refer others to YAI's programs 2. 10% of participants recruited through Summer Blast or other community outreach 3. 25% of participants first-time YAI participants. Evaluation Plan: 1) We will administer youth participant surveys at the beginning, middle, and end of the process to build accountability with every youth and their personal educational process. 2) We will also administer parent/guardian surveys regarding their children's learning experience, quality of artistic staff, communication, and overall artistic quality of the production. 3) We provide audience surveys in programs asking about the quality of the performance, the experience, and advice for future programs. Every production we have three pushes to complete surveys at the curtain speech, intermission, and post-curtain call. 4) We track participants in our our historical database of alumni and can track trends such as demographics, and those who return vs. those who are new to YAI.
Participant, audience, and professional feedback showed 100% appreciation for the ?show going on?! Upon evaluation every person connected to the program shared their deep gratitude for having a creative outlet, safe space, and artistic community to be connected with when so many of those opportunities had been removed due to covid.
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