Arts Activities Support

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Nautilus Music-Theater

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

Completed

Start Date

September 2016

End Date

June 2017

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Hennepin

Ramsey

Project Overview

Arts Activities Support

Project Details

Funding for six ROUGH CUTS works-in-progress presentations of new music-theater plus two “special edition" ROUGH CUTS presented during the Saint Paul Art Crawl. Activities will take place between October 2016 and June 2017.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher and performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair of El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Artistic Director of World Music and Dance and the International Children’s Festival; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Nikki Hunt: Administration, organizational development; Pete Driessen: Artistic, education, Community Education; Michael Fallon: Administration, marketing, education; Rachel Levitt: Marketing; Lindsy Halleckson: Artistic, fundraising, administration; Hilary Smith: Fundraising, administration, marketing; Lula Saleh: Artistic, volunteerism, general administration; Taous Khazem: Artistic, education; Peter Foster: Marketing, organizational development, administration.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2017 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Other Funds Leveraged

$20,260

Direct expenses

$30,260

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

0.00

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

We will present six Rough Cuts programs plus two open studios during the St Paul Art Crawl, expecting to reach an audience of at least 300 for the Rough Cuts and 1,000 for the Art Crawls. Programs will consist of works-in-progress, existing pieces presented to stretch our performers, and excerpts from our Composer-Librettist Studio. We will conduct post-performance audience conversations during the Rough Cuts presentations, distribute audience surveys during selected performances, and poll our artists concerning the value of the Rough Cuts program to their work. We will track audience numbers for both the Rough Cuts and the Art Crawl.

Measurable Outcome(s)

QUANTITATIVE: We hoped for an audience of 300 for the ROUGH CUTS shows; we had 476. We hoped to reach 1,000 during the two Art Crawls; we had over 700 for each, total 1,400. We served 84 artists in ROUGH CUTS and 11 artists in the Art Crawls. QUALITATIVE: Every performance included a spirited talkback, and sometimes audience surveys. We held private consultations with artists post-performance.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Kaye Hujda, Sarah Johnson, Ben Krywosz, Tina Meckel, Jim Payne

Project Manager

Ben

Krywosz

Nautilus Music-Theater

308 Prince St Ste 190

St Paul

55101-1437