Partners in Arts Participation

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,999
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Epic Enterprise Inc.
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2016
End Date
February 2017
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Dakota
Rice
Dakota
Rice
Project Overview
Partners in Arts Participation
Project Details
Epic Enterprise will collaborate with KAIROS Alive! to provide high quality art experiences for adults with developmental disabilities.
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; 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; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
William Adams: Public policy consultant; community leader of Kaddatz Galleries creation; Elaine Allen: Retired RN; literacy tutor and co-coordinator of church art program; Selma Fernandez Richter: Photographer documenting the immigrant experience; Roxanne Givens: Founder, Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center; Matthew Guidry: Co-founder and artistic director of Upstream Arts; actor, director, educator, choreographer; Tyra Hughes: Marriage and family therapist; participant in Art of Recovery program as exhibitor, judicator, and speaker; Jane Zilch: Consultant and educator for non-profit organizations; board member of Theater Latte Da
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,999
Other Funds Leveraged
$8
Direct expenses
$25,007
Administration costs
$103
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Enrich participants’ lives by providing in-depth arts experiences through the mediums of music, movement and story-telling. Kairos teaching artists will provide 31 hours of instruction to arts learners. Barriers to participation will be identified and adaptations made so that learners can succeed in creating art. 2: Learners will develop holistically, as art becomes a vehicle for expanded emotional/social wellbeing, physical and artistic/cognitive functioning. Evaluation is through observations by artists and staff identifying emotional/social, physical and artistic/cognitive functioning. Regular meetings will review individual mastery and participation.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Kairos Alive provided 31 hours of arts programming at Epic for 31 individuals who have difficult accessing the arts on their own. Epic noted the days that artists were in residency and tracked which arts learners attended sessions. During class, staff and artists identified and addressed barriers to participation that were easily remedied. At hour-long reflections held six times over the project, staff, artists and an arts-coach reviewed challenges that learners faced and strategized ways to mitigate barriers. A spreadsheet kept track of the quality of each arts learner's participation over the course of the project. 2: Kairos and Epic helped adults with disabilities develop holistically, using art to expand functioning in emotional, physical and artistic realms. Staff, artists, and arts coach met six times over the course of the project for reflections and to brainstorm ways to deepen the arts experiences for learners. The coach and staff documented progress of learners on a spreadsheet. Staff used an IPad to capture learners in action. At a final reflection, this group reviewed the video clips and spreadsheet data, reflecting on what was accomplished over the residency. All this information was analyzed by an evaluator at the end of the project.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Kathleen Doran-Norton, David Gonnerman, Linda Olson, Janet Petri, Bonnie Prawer, Rick Risberg, Norman Oberto, Elizabeth Wheeler
Project Manager
First Name
Linda
Last Name
Hibbard
Organization Name
Epic Enterprise Inc.
Street Address
PO Box 186
City
Dundas
State
MN
Zip Code
55019
Phone
(507) 645-6800
Email
lhibbard@epicenterpriseinc.org
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
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