Art Project
Art Project
Summer Arts for KMS
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Lauren Carlson: poetry, film, COMPAS roster artist, Dept. of Public Transformation board; Carisa Clarke: graphic design/web development, arts volunteer, board member DAC of Murray County; Lisa Hill: musician, Crow River Singers, attorney; Greg Jodzio: photography/design, Hutchinson Center for the Arts board, Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Brett Lehman: musician, social worker; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Kathy Fransen, music; Mary Kay Frisvold, music; Beth Habicht, music; Anna Johannsen, visual art, education, SMAC Board; Joyce Meyer, visual art, education; Kaia Nowatzki, visual art, music, theater; Jessica Welu, writing.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Education
:1 "Regional residents experience increased access to the arts via a reduction in geographic, cultural and/or physical barriers." Local young people (+/-100) will have an opportunity to experience arts not otherwise easily available to them due to distance, transportation, and economic barriers. They will have joy and engagement they would otherwise not have due to logistical reasons. Parents will appreciate the opportunities offered to their children, knowing it is not a hardship for them to provide it. Community members will have a chance to see the local talent coming up and an evening of affordable entertainment right in town. 8: "Regional residents learn new arts skills and techniques." Participants in the theater residency will be immersed in acting, singing, dancing, and general performance skills, improving those techniques as well as increasing their confidence, social interaction, and sense of teamwork to produce a show. 9: "Regional residents gain awareness and appreciation for a variety of artistic disciplines and mediums." At the Walker, they will engage with modern art and be given skills to view, understand, and appreciate the works. A tour of the museum and a subsequent hands-on experience will layer their learning and help cement their education. They will practice typical museum behavior, and enjoy lunch in a garden surrounded by art. Prairie Fire: CE staff will conduct candid in-person interviews with the student participants during their snack breaks later in the week, and email surveys to parents of participants following the performance. As an incentive for completing the survey, we will offer a $5 discount on a future Community Ed class or activity. We will also post a survey on our CE Facebook page for the public viewing audience to complete after the performance. Beyond the smiles on the faces of participants and their audience, we expect a positive experience documented through the attached surveys. Walker Art Center: Since this will take place amidst the summer school program, we will have students in that program complete their surveys the following day at school, administered by the program staff who also attended the field trip. Staff will also be asked to complete the survey for their take on how it went. For those students not part of the summer school, we will email a survey to parents to complete with the students. We will also submit a survey to parents via email, similar to the PFCT one, with the same incentive. Though we will witness their discovery of and connection to the museum and garden, we expect positive feedback through the surveys of an experience most have never had.
Overall students and parents were pleased and fulfilled by the activity. Several students had never done anything like this and are already asking when the next opportunity will be available! Comments from parents included (with mouths gaping open): "We looked at each other and said, 'Who IS that kid?'", referring to their once shy nine-year old. Another said, "it's so fun when each of my kids finds their own niche, she is loving this." These opportunities are reaching individual children who may not have had something in their lives that brought them this level of joy, and they are thrilled. It did not work out to take a field trip to the Walker Arts Center, due to the Walker's Covid policies and subsequent staffing shortages.
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