Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Choreographer Ramaswamy will work with filmmaker Caitlin Hammel to make "Lineage," a video installation about her art form, Bharatanatyam, and the work she has done with her daughters since immigrating to Minnesota in 1978.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Anne Adabra: Founder and chair, Minnesota Haitian Cultural Center; social studies teacher; dancer and storyteller; Ann Marie Deutz: Dancer and dance instructor; certified personal trainer; Heather Klopchin: Associate professor and chair of St Olaf College dance department; Sharika Kurumathur: Dancer trained in India and Minnesota; Rachmi Diyah Larasati: Associate professor, U of MN dance department; Jill Patterson: Teaches dance at Gustavus
ACHF Arts Access
Minnesotans will develop a deeper understanding of my culturally rooted art form. Viewers at the public exhibition will be interviewed on film and asked for their comments and questions about what they have learned. 2: I will develop skills in community engagement through a new medium, and a deeper understanding of what my audiences want to know about my work. The finished product will demonstrate new skills in communicating to the public via film. Before creating the installation, I will survey my current audiences and those unfamiliar with my art form, and their feedback will inform the project.
Minnesotans will develop a deeper understanding of my culturally rooted art form. we are gathering responses from viewers on line and on email. 2: I will develop skills in community engagement through a new medium, and a deeper understanding of what my audiences want to know about my work. I have requests for explaining a couple of shows from London. I have been asked to make several films about each show from India.