Art Project
Art Project
Minnesota Pottery Festival 2022
Cheryl Avenel-Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity council; Justin Beck, chair of Hutchinson Public Arts Commission, president of Hutchinson Center for the Arts, photography, music; Judy Beckman: vocal music, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone County Historical Society, Big Stone Lake Area Chamber of Commerce CEO; Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development 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; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Michele Huggins: Granite Area Arts Council treasurer and volunteer, member of the Artisan Grain Collaborative, founding member of ACHALA; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Kristine Shelstad: visual arts, Madison Mercantile art gallery, Madison Arts Council, Lac qui Parle Players; VFW; Gillian Singler, MN West Community and Technical College chair of Humanities and English instructor, Creative Healing Space volunteer, writer, theater director; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheryl Avenel-Navara, arts admin, SMAC board; Mark Bosveld, theater; Beth Habicht music; Janet Olney, visual art, arts admin; Valerie Quist, writing; Sheila Tabaka, theater
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
The board tries to bring in a large variety of clay mediums so that the participating audience can continue developing their clay knowledge. This year we're looking for opportunities to promote the Festival to more families through the school system and library. We are raising our audience goal to 3,200. The Festival fosters opportunities for the potters to collaborate and share techniques and connect with pottery focused audiences. Each year there are more and more emerging clay artists who come to the Festival as a networking opportunity. This year we plan to have thirty-five participating potters. We continue to look for ways to cross promote with local organizations and businesses. Our evaluation survey asks what attendees liked best, whether they learned something new, if there was anything they would improve, and whether they would come back again, along with demographic information. Survey Administrators: This year we will have two people responsible for going around the Festival to capture feedback. By adding an additional survey administrator in 2019 we reached more audience members for feedback, so we'll continue having two administrators in 2022. The potters in attendance are also surveyed.
Our 2022 festival strengthened our organization by all members pulling together to overcome a two year hiatus. There was a strong sense of commitment by all team members. Our fans appreciated that we were back, and gave us strong marks in our surveys. We use these surveys each year to identify areas that we need to improve on. There are several things that we will take into our 2023 planning/retreat session in January 2023. We have determined that onsite surveys are not as effective as hoped, and will now transition to all online, starting with the festival weekend so we can engage more comments and feedback. In 2022, we had over 23,000 engagements with our Facebook site during the festival week.
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