Art Project
Art Project
Production of Disney's The Descendants: The Musical
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; Kylie Rieke: ceramics, murals, music, theater, T-Bird Community Arts Board; 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
Luwaina Al-Otaibi, arts programming; Justin Beck, visual art, SMAC board; Stephen Kingsbury, music; Joyce Meyer, visual art; Eric Parrish, music, theater; Valerie Quist, writing; Gillian Singler, writing, SMAC board
ACHF Arts Access
By staging the musical "The Descendants", we wish to add to our list of volunteers and performers, challenge current performers and the creative team artistically, and produce a show with high artistic quality that is accessible to people of all ages and interests. We also hope to increase audience attendance and performing arts awareness in the Pipestone community. This musical production will appeal to a new, younger demographic of music and theater lovers. We believe this production selection shows growth in that we are doing a musical that appeals to adults, but children will enjoy as well. We want audiences to walk away from performances with community pride and cast and crew with a sense of personal accomplishment. To measure the artistic quality and weaknesses/strengths of the production, we will ask the audience in a comment form that will be included in their program to give feedback on the production. Participants (young and wise) will be given access to give feedback and comment on their experience in the rehearsal and production process. This will help us gauge our strengths and weaknesses, help us plan our next season, as well as be a tool to help determine whether or not our goals were met.
We had an excellent experience! We were able to cast a more diverse group of performers and had a lot of performers that had their first experiences on stage. We were also thrilled to have an artistic director and music director who had not previously dir
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