Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
1. Open the Cowles Center in September 2011 and complete its first season successfully. 2. Expand the Shubert/Cowles Long Distance Learning program. 3. Create and sustain affordable live/work projects in the Twin Cities as a means of supporting Minnesota’s community of individual artists. 4. Work more closely with the communities around our existing buildings to strengthen their relationships with our projects and vice-versa. Evaluate the Cowles Center for meeting financial modeling goals, the Long Distance Learning program for meeting participant and fundraising goals, live/work projects for meeting budget and timeline goals, and community initiatives based on the creation of new strategies. Work with Metris Arts Consulting to measure the economic impact of arts activities and to quantify, as much as is possible, the economic impact of Artspace projects on the artists who live and/or work in them and on the neighborhoods surrounding them. Evaluate the degree to which the study is used.
1. The Cowles Center opened in September 2011 and completed its first season. 2. The Cowles Center Distance Learning program has expanded to include a full student matinee program. 3. Artspace is fully renovating the Northern Warehouse in Saint Paul and will start construction on a new project in Minneapolis, Jackson Flats, by December 2012. 4. Artspace is working with community partners to strengthen relationships with properties. 5. Artspace completed a second economic impact study with Metris Arts Consulting.
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