Art Project Grant
Art Project Grant
Kelley Hunt: Kansas City Blues, R and B, and Boogie-Woogie pianist/vocalist performs in concert with her band on July 13, 2019 in Grand Marais.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our goal in hosting Kelley Hunt and her band in Grand Marais is to treat our community to an evening that shines with Kelley's powerful stage presence and scorching Blues and R & B talent. The value to our community of seeing Kelley here again after fifteen years, or experiencing her for the first time, will be considerable. Our desired short-range outcome is a nicely filled-out auditorium of 100 concertgoers or more, and a percentage of 80% or higher rave reviews on post-event audience surveys. Our long-range desired outcome is to keep fulfilling and building upon our mission to present the highest quality eclectic live music in our region, by featuring artists like Kelley. North Shore Music Association will solicit feedback from our audience in the form of written surveys handed out to each concert attendee and collected after the performance. We will evaluate outcome through survey analysis, reviews in local and regional press and radio, verbal and written feedback from audience members, and an analysis of financial data based on number of tickets sold.
Our short-term measurable outcome for this project was to serve our population with a concert by one of the finest groups available in the genres of blues and R and B (among their three top genres to hear live, according to our surveys) -- gathering a good-sized crowd who are thrilled by the performance. Our long-term measurable outcome was to add to our organization's reputation of presenting the best artists (both label-signed and independent) of national and international acclaim at comfortable, accessible local venues.
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