Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Willow will complete her fourth poetry collection, develop a marketing plan, and give readings throughout the state to expand her audience and share her work with the Minnesota public.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Officer at Large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary?s University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse, Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Ceramic artist. former executive director of the Minnesota Project.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Richard Broderick: Poetry and fiction writer; writing instructor at the Loft and Anoka-Ramsey Community College; Yahya Frederickson: Poet, professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead; Wendy Gonzalez-Baez: Writer, teacher, performance poet and installation artist; Athena Kildegaard: Poet; lecturer, University of Minnesota Morris.; Michelle Matthees: Widely-published poet and educator; Saara Myrene Raappana: Published poet; editor of Cellpoems, a poetry journal; Carolyn Williams-Noren: Poet
ACHF Arts Access
The poet will prepare a new collection of poems and have it ready for submission to publishers by the end of the grant period. Counting completed poems will be quantitative measure of success of the collection. Feedback from master poet, peers and audiences will be qualitative measure of readiness of collection for submission. 2: Poet will expand the audience for her poetry by developing marketing skills and giving readings throughout the state with other Minnesota poets. Number of readings, new venue count and approximate audience tallies will provide quantitative measure of outcome success. Feedback, response and network-building will measure qualitative impact.
Morgan Grayce Willow prepared a new collection of poems entitled Oddly Enough and made it ready for submission to publishers. Page count for the completed manuscript provides initial quantitative evaluation, i.e. 86 pages. Advance in artist development, as indicated by peer and audience feedback, however, far exceeds that numerical indicator. 2: Poet expanded the audience for her poetry by giving ten readings, three of these outstate to entirely new audiences. The artist gave ten poetry readings at venues throughout the state. Three of these were entirely new venues. The readings reached approximately 220 people with poetry from the new manuscript.
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