Arts Activities Support

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,900
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
River Valley Band
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
September 2012
End Date
August 2013
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Dakota
Dakota
Project Overview

Arts Activities Support

Project Details

Funding for six free band concerts featuring a variety of music in traditional, contemporary and popular styles. The concerts will take place in Hastings and surrounding areas between September 2012 and August 2013.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Lori-Anne Williams: Development Director, AccountAbility Minnesota; Jennifer Tonko: Program Assistant, Minnesota Humanities Center; Katie Rye: Twisted Owl Marketing and Events; Michele Spaise: Artist; Carolyn Holbrook, Executive Director, SASE: The Write Place; Adriana Rimpel: Program Manager, Walker Art Center; Tom Moffatt: Supervisor, Silverwood Park; Vanessa Voskuil: Vanessa Voskuil Dance.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,900
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,950
Direct expenses
$5,850
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

To bring amateur musicians of all ages together to learn and provide entertaining experiences for local audiences; to foster relationships between highly skilled musicians with beginning musicians to challenge and to teach.Band, director, and audience feedback; increases in musical skills and abilities; audience attendance.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Student participation was less than the previous year by about 15% due to a conflict with a girls volleyball practice and also due to the fact that a neighboring town had Prairie Fire Children's Theater during the same week as Roseau.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Karen Banszewski, Dee Larson, Jim Jacobsen, Cress Gackle, Deborah Saunders, Richard Graham
Project Manager
First Name
Deborah
Last Name
Saunders
Organization Name
River Valley Band
Street Address
310 10th St W
City
Hastings
State
MN
Zip Code
55033
Phone
(651) 437-9233
Email
hastingsprescottarts@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

PO Box 14106
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

Phone
Project Manager: Kathy Mouacheupao
651-645-0402
Email the Agency