Art Legacy Project Planning
Art Legacy Project Planning
Granite Falls City Artist-in-Residence Sustainability and Expansion Planning
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Janine Teske: music, theater, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school board; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheryl Avenel-Navara, arts admin, SMAC Board; Morgan Baum, visual art, arts admin; Mary Kay Frisvold, music, theater; Maureen Keimig, theater; David KelseyBassett, music, visual art, SMAC Board; Janet Olney, visual art, arts admin; Zachary Ploeger, music.
ACHF Arts Access
DoPT will be able to provide specific and experienced advice, as well as tangible resources, that communities and municipalities need to advocate for, organize, and consider implementing the Small Town CAIR model in intentional and sustainable ways. Granite Falls will become an expert case study in the power of collaborative work that's driven by a community's articulated needs. DoPT will continue to nourish the positive feedback loop of hearing a community's voices with equity, supporting practicing artists, and developing creative solutions to complex, long-standing challenges. City Government staff (and other key stakeholders) will have the resources and enthusiasm they need to advocate for arts and culture engagement in many different aspects of civic life, decision making, and problem solving. Through informal and formal conversations, our key stakeholders and partners will report feeling excited about and successful in finding sustainable solutions to continue the program. We will launch a sustainably scaled CAIR residency that can be replicated by the City of Granite Falls and other communities in our region. We will receive increased inquiries from local municipalities about how to start their own Small Town CAIR program.
DoPT has continued to provide specific and experienced advice, as well as tangible resources, that communities and municipalities need to advocate for, organize, and consider implementing various forms of Civic Arts. City Government staff (and other key stakeholders) have continued to build the resources and enthusiasm they need to advocate for arts & culture engagement, as evidenced by the City?s partnership in the next version of the program. Through informal and formal conversations, our key stakeholders and partners identified next steps toward sustainability of a Granite Falls Community Artist in Residence project, and a plan to continue the program with a different structure as implemented by a local community partner. We have received increased inquiries from municipalities about how to engage with various forms of Civic Arts in their own communities.
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