Arts Activities Support

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Inverted Arts

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

In Progress

Start Date

June 2015

End Date

May 2016

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Hennepin

Project Overview

Arts Activities Support

Project Details

Funding to create a 10-12 minute documentary film exploring the nature of diversity through the eyes of three disadvantaged male youth in collaboration with three professional film-makers.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Jill Anfang: Roseville Parks and Recreation Program Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music Teacher and performer; Kathy Busch: Realtor, Shakopee School Board Member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Executive Director; Mary Erickson: Eastern Carver County Schools Community Education; Anthony Galloway: Actor, storyteller, West Metro Education Program; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Minnesota Public Radio Development Officer; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Erinn Liebhard: Artistic, marketing, administration; Kathryn Murray: Artistic, administration, organizational planning; Betty Mackay: Artistic; Rachel Levitt: Marketing, fundraising, community development; Susan Bernstein: Artistic, administration; Don Mabley-Allen: Artistic, administration, disabilities specialist; Natalie Wass: Artistic, volunteerism, education; Edie Abnet: Artistic, education, community education; Harry Sapienza: Education, administration, finance.

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

$10,000

Other Funds Leveraged

$5,000

Direct expenses

$15,000

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The measurable outcomes of this project will be one 10-12 minute documentary film exploring the nature of diversity, filmed and produced by 3 disadvantaged youth from 3 partner organizations in collaboration with 3 professional filmmakers and screened to an audience of 500 or more people. Qualitative outcomes are that three youth film-makers will exercise their creative voices, grow in artistic and film production experience, and that the 3 youth, 3 film-makers and audiences will engage with the topic and value of diversity. Evaluation will take place through participant/artist/partner/audience counts and participant/artist/partner/audience surveys, and final project debrief session with the Project Team and the Inverted Arts board. Qualitative evaluation will also come through post-screening talk-back session between film makers, students and audiences and project team discussion of these talk-back sessions.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Mark Collier, Jeremy Mickelson, LaVonne Dyer, Nancy Vischer, Rebecca Ulasich, Andrew McKown, Bob Fiebranz

Project Manager

Mark

Collier

Inverted Arts

77 13th Ave NE Ste 207

Minneapolis

(763) 567-0780