Art Project
Art Project
SW MN Local Artist Residencies
Cheryl Avenel-Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity council; Judy Beckman: vocal music, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone County Historical Society, Big Stone Lake Area Chamber of Commerce CEO; Maggie Fuller: visual art, writing; 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; 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; Erin Kline, visual art, music, writing, education, SMSU Diversity and Inclusion; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board; Jessica Mata: visual art, dance, Kerkhoven Arts Council; Kylie Rieke: ceramics, murals, music, theater, T-Bird Community Arts Board; Kristine Shelstad: visual arts, Madison Mercantile art gallery, Madison Arts Council, Lac qui Parle Players; VFW; Gillian Singler, MN West Community and Technical College chair of Humanities and English instructor, Creative Healing Space volunteer, writer, theater director; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Mark Wilmes: Tyler Arts Council board president, actor/director, musician, reporter
Chad Felton, music, theater, education; Mary Kay Frisvold, music, theater; Anna Johannsen, visual art, education, SMAC board; Stephen Kingsbury, music, education; Kaia Nowatzki, visual art, theater, music; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson, visual art; Valerie Quist, writing, libraries.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
The goal of this project is to support local and rural artists by providing a space to focus on their work without other distractions. It provides a stepping stone to building confidence and an audience of local supporters, as well as progressing a body of work to apply for other residency programs and artistic opportunities. The public "artist salons" will provide opportunities for community members to learn new creative skills, as well as meet, support, and connect with local rural artists in the region. These salons will also give artists a chance to refine their skills for talking about their work and ask questions about themes and methods that are important to them. In an effort to better understand the impact of our work, our team is updating our programmatic evaluation strategies utilizing Americans for the Arts + Animating Democracy's tool "Aesthetic Perspectives Framework." This flexible framework allows us to measure the ongoing ripple effects of the "softer" and more "nebulous" impacts of our creative work and artistic events. For this program specifically, we will draw on this framework to create a set of internal and external markers of success prior to launching the Call for Artists. We will focus on gathering feedback and measuring success through participatory evaluation at salons for the audience and approachable exit interviews with the selected artists.
Residency artists reported an increase in or strengthening of confidence (100%), artistic network (100%), social network (40%, some already had a strong social network), desire to create more art (100%), desire to carve out more space and time for their a
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