Community Art Support

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Recipient
Granite City Folk Society
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
In Progress
Start Date
April 2024
End Date
February 2025
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Sherburne
Sherburne
Project Overview

Community Art Support

Project Details

Presentation of live traditional music in a listening environment, supporting the artists and audiences

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Buddy King: CMAB Board Chair, St Cloud Playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, community youth arts initiatives; Gretchen Boulka: CMAB Vice Chair, Director of Performing Arts at Paramount Center for the Arts, arts administrator with background in development, special events, program management, marketing and communications; musician, Association for Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) member, Minnesota Presenters Network board director; Sean Donahue: CMAB Board Treasurer, Performing arts technician; Professional light and sound designer, Musician, equipment retail experience, event and project manager; Bopha Thomas, Princeton Area of Commerce Board Member; Associate of the Arts in Fashion Design, Theatre performance; Sandi Kroll, Owner-Refreshing Perspectives Therapy, MSW Boise State University, MFA in Theatre, University of California, San Diego, life-long consumer of performing arts, previous regional stage and event manger, former member of Actors Equity Association; Louis Witt: BA and MA in Music Education, Conductor and musician for Community Bands, Musical Theatre and Orchestras, served as VP of Corporate Giving, past member and chair of MOST Ministries, serve on Advisory Council for Feed My Starving Children; Tom Berger: Small Business Owner, AAA Courier Express, Waite Park; Producer, Production Manager, Designer with Belville Productions; Served in many capacities for the History Theatre in St. Paul including Managing Director, Educational Project Director, Tour Director, Production Manager, Designer; University of Minnesota, Theatre Arts, Classics, Geology.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Buddy King: CMAB Board Chair, St Cloud Playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, community youth arts initiatives; Gretchen Boulka: CMAB Vice Chair, Director of Performing Arts at Paramount Center for the Arts, arts administrator with background in development, special events, program management, marketing and communications; musician, Association for Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) member, Minnesota Presenters Network board director; Sean Donahue: CMAB Board Treasurer, Performing arts technician; Professional light and sound designer, Musician, equipment retail experience, event and project manager; Bopha Thomas, Princeton Area of Commerce Board Member; Associate of the Arts in Fashion Design, Theatre performance; Sandi Kroll, Owner-Refreshing Perspectives Therapy, MSW Boise State University, MFA in Theatre, University of California, San Diego, life-long consumer of performing arts, previous regional stage and event manger, former member of Actors Equity Association; Louis Witt: BA and MA in Music Education, Conductor and musician for Community Bands, Musical Theatre and Orchestras, served as VP of Corporate Giving, past member and chair of MOST Ministries, serve on Advisory Council for Feed My Starving Children; Tom Berger: Small Business Owner, AAA Courier Express, Waite Park; Producer, Production Manager, Designer with Belville Productions; Served in many capacities for the History Theatre in St. Paul including Managing Director, Educational Project Director, Tour Director, Production Manager, Designer; University of Minnesota, Theatre Arts, Classics, Geology.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$19,449
Direct expenses
$22,449
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Continue to offer concerts (ideally, at least two each month) and afford to book acts from the wide range of touring and regional artists. Our annual concert report summary is a record of each event's countables: ticket sales, artist pay, expenses. We are able to track results during the season as well as look back across past seasons. And we have a long institutional memory.

Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Russell
Last Name
Letson
Organization Name
Granite City Folk Society
Street Address
1425 23rd St SE
City
St Cloud
State
MN
Zip Code
56304
Phone
(320) 253-8749
Email
granitecityfolk@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

P.O. Box 458
220 4th Ave North 
Foley, MN 56329

Phone
Project Manager: Leslie LeCuyer
320-968-4290x 3