Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Ryan will complete her short story collection, PARADE OF HORRIBLES, which explores a continuum of human experience through characters who exist at the edge of humanity, and will host an interactive fiction event.
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.
Rebecca Brooks: Writer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Scott Carpenter: Fiction writer; teacher at Carleton; Martin Cozza: Fiction writer; Arts Board grantee; Margaret Newman: Writer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Cole Perry: Northern Minnesota novelist; Robin Rozanski: Writer; teaching artist at The Loft; Molly Sutton Kiefer: Poet, essayist, editor and publisher of Tinderbox Editions in Red Wing
Executive director Sue Gens (651) 539-2650
ACHF Arts Access
Artist will develop fiction editing and revision skills through the completion of her first short story collection. Outcome evaluated by whether artist completes the story collection using new fiction editing and revision skills; self-report of skill change after completion of editing/revising course; and through demonstrable maturation of approach to revision. 2: Attendees to artist's reading and interactive fiction event will experience increased empathy with those whose life experiences differ from theirs. Artist will conduct targeted evaluation with attendees of event that allow for self-report of changes in empathy, level of engagement with material and framework, and overall effectiveness.
Artist developed fiction editing and revision skills through completion of short story collection and novel. Artist self-reports skill change after completion of intensive editing/revision of her own work and work of writing partners. 2: Attendees experienced increase empathy with those whose life experiences differ from theirs. Attendees self-reported after the event about newly evolved frameworks regarding empathy, privilege, and distribution of necessary and rare resources; and engaged deeply with the material both during and after the event.