Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
To support need based scholarship to provide take art enrichment courses and introduce new art classes.
Eric Abrahamson: Business owner/painter, stage manager, actor; Pagyn Harding: literary artist, publisher/author; Mark Ryan: Plains Art Museum Director of Collections and Operations; Nancy Berns: Radio voice actor, costumer, vocal director, choral singer; Carolyn Aarsvold: Retired elementary music educator, violinist; Tim Ray: actor, director, technical director, musician-performer; Michael Eble: professor, gallery curator at University of Minnesota-Morris; Kari Adams: graphic designer, printmaker; Stan Goldade: High school math instructor, photographer, sculptor; Jim Arvidson; Susan Anderson: Art Advocate, Theatre and Art background.
Don Clark: Minnesota State University-Moorhead Professor, photography; Eric Abrahamson: Business owner/painter, stage manager, actor; Mark Ryan: Plain Art Museum Director of Collections and Operations; Pagyn Harding: literary artist, publisher/author; Nancy Berns: Radio voice actor, costumer, vocal director, choral singer; Carolyn Aarsvold: Retired elementary music educator, violinist; Tim Ray: actor, director, technical director, musician-performer; Kari Kjesbo: former gallery manager, catering business owner; Gary Henrickson: former professor of literature; Michael Eble: professor, gallery curator, University of Minnesota-Morris; Kari Adams: graphic designer, printmaker; Carolyn Flieder: fiber artist, former quilt shop owner; Amy Schmidt: literary artist, visual artist, bookstore owner; Randy Peterson Pope: Chiropractor, Arts Advocate; Jim Arvidson: Retired businessman, fundraiser, art advocate.
Lake Region Arts Council, Maxine Adams (218) 739-5780
ACHF Arts Education
Goals of this project include: 1) Offering 11 diverse world class programs that would be outside the financial realm of programing AC4TA would produce without the assistance of Arts and Cultural Heritage funds and are uniquely different from past programing, 2) Do this while creating a strong arts legacy for our region of Minnesota, 3) Provide no less than 2000 area youth, through outreach programing, access to the highest quality of arts, 4) To connect through programing and outreach new and diverse populations of patrons, 5) To have a minimum per show of 300 paying adult patrons for the Center Series and 30 On Stage, 6) To offer new and unique forms of final reporting and feedback as to accomplishments of the grant goals.1. Students and parents will complete a survey about their experience with the College for Kids art course(s) they attended, 2. Additional comments about the program's impact will be summarized from comments at the gallery exhibits and in its guest book.
Survey results showed that student who participated in the arts courses really came away with a understanding of the broad scope of art and how it and uplift and enrich their lives. Many students stated that they loved sharing all they learned with their parents, siblings and friends. Parents and other visitors were overwhelmingly positive with their remarks about the program and the quality of the arts courses their children were enrolled in. We were also given some great ideas for new classes to add next year.
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