Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Boys and Girls Clubs Day for Kids Event
Tara Makinen: former-Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; 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; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
Mary McReynolds: Executive Director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Roxann Berglund: musician; Tammy Mattonen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
ACHF Arts Access
It is the commitment of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids and Greenway to serve young people in the community in this art project, especially youth with no previous musical experience and little access to musical entertainment, to increase the development of new audiences and broaden their future programming in music. Audience surveys, presenter feedback, and conversations with participants will help determine the quality of the program. Attendance will measure the impact of the activity and help identify and mitigate barriers to participation. Performance attendance is key to quantitative evaluation methods and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids and Greenway use digital tools to facilitate assessments through an internal database, Facebook, and Survey Monkey.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids and Greenway provided a free concert featuring The Okee Dokee Brothers to celebrate Boys and Girls Clubs Day for Kids. More than 200 people (adults and kids) were in attendance on September 11 on the banks of the Mississippi River. Local radio station, KAXE, provided the venue at their amphitheater.
Other,local or private