Arts Access

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$69,202

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

VSA Minnesota

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

Completed

Start Date

January 2015

End Date

October 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Anoka

Blue Earth

Cass

Chisago

Clay

Dakota

Grant

Hennepin

Itasca

Otter Tail

Ramsey

Rice

Scott

Stearns

St. Louis

Washington

Project Overview

Arts Access

Project Details

VSA Minnesota will present a two-day Symposium and Arts Chautauqua in September 2015 bringing together members of the arts and disability communities to explore access to the arts as it exists today and in years to come.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Wendy Dayton: Arts and community leader and philanthropist.; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Susan Berdahl: Director of marketing and communications, St. David's Center; Laurel Bradley: Director and curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College; Mary Flicek: Arts administrator, board member, River Junctions Arts Council; Scott Gilbert: Theater artist and educator, director and producer, Segue Productions; Nicole Helget: Memoir and fiction writer, Mankato; Elizabeth Larson: Arts administrator, Bach Society of Minnesota, freelance musician; Larry Retzlaff: Landscape painting artist, portrait photographer, cofounder of Third Life Studio, and founder, Q1 Gallery, Minneapolis; Emily Wright: Managing director, Minnesota Guitar Society

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$69,202

Other Funds Leveraged

$7,689

Direct expenses

$76,892

Administration costs

$313

Number of full time equivalents funded

0.32

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Project participants will identify successes in and challenges for the melding of needs, interests and arts explorations in arts and disability communities. Pre and post evaluations will provide data to indicate how arts administrators and patrons and artists with disabilities came together during the project and will work together to forward access initiatives.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Minnesota Arts Access Chautauqua attendees learned how people with disabilities are increasingly participating in state arts activities. Two participant surveys were established on Survey Monkey. One survey tracked daily responses each of the two days of the Chautauqua and the other was a post-event survey. In addition, individuals who had been invited to attend the Chautauqua but did not were asked to respond to an additional survey seeking information as to reasons for not attending. Information gathered through these instruments has been compiled and will be used to plan future access initiatives in the state.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Gail Burke, Adam Perry, Steve Danko, Adrienne Mason, Anne Peacock, Christian Novak, Stacy Shamblott, Char Coal, Maggie Karli

Project Manager

Craig

Dunn

VSA Minnesota

528 Hennepin Ave Ste 305

Minneapolis

(612) 332-3888