Art Project

DASN seeks to build creative community: providing a safe, growing, public container in which citizens can sublimate a gamut of emotion into meaning-rich, joyful, artistic action, measurable with increased attendance/participation/feedback numbers. We facilitate processing of deep grief for loved ones who have gone before and our present shared dilemmas. We work to share/inspire affordable handmade, live spectacle traditions, mirroring contrasting seasons of life and encouraging soulful creativity from ALL. We establish alternative autumn traditions, respectfully based on global historic practices rather than gratuitous sex/gore. We represent culturally diverse art, incorporating the changing local audience demographics and providing needed, timely education and awareness of avoiding cultural appropriation. We spark much needed active hope for the future at times when many are overwhelmed by daily doses of bad news in the world. We highlight/reward brilliant and original MN artists. Success in our Duluth community looks like an unapologetic reclaiming of the responsibly creative human spirit! We are proud DASN is held in and will see many attendees from the underserved neighborhood on the west side of Duluth. We will continue to enjoy extensive photo and video documentation post event. We will physically count our increasing number/diversity in participants and attendees. We will have follow up with participants/observers to discuss event highs/lows, and ideas for possible improvements in future years. We will maintain our active social media pages where engaged public can easily and enthusiastically contact us with photos, stories, and offerings of their talents/suggestions. We will track the related Twin Ports events that we inspire, and note whether there is respect for cultural references/accuracy. We will measure our success by the public and professional responses. In the past our performance have had tremendously positive verbal and written feedback.