Operating Support
Operating Support
Preserving and advancing the arts of weaving, spinning, and dyeing.
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
WGM will offer high-quality weaving, spinning, and dyeing programs representative of the diverse global textile cultures present in Minnesota. WGM will track the kinds of programming it offers with respect to tradition and origin and populations served. Anecdotes will be collected. Program debriefs and check-ins will be conducted with partners and program leaders.
Weavers Guild of Minnesota outcome was to rebuild from Covid. Guild sustained the creative community through continued virtual and in-person programming. Weavers Guild of MN used financial and fundraising reports, program enrollment and evaluations, membership surveys and a community listening session to evaluate impact. Conversations and interviews with stakeholders were also used.
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