Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Smith will complete Edgewalker, a memoir for anyone directly or indirectly touched by cancer. She will hold readings at Gilda's Club in Minnetonka and the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance in Minneapolis.
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.
Judith Budreau: Writer and teacher, Arts Board grantee; Karlyn Coleman: Writer; teaching artist at the Loft; Arts Board grantee; William Durbin: Poet, essayist, writer of novels for young readers; Anika Fajardo: Writer and teacher, book reviewer; Angela Foster: Poet, memoirist; Harmony Neal: Writer; Arts Board grantee; Debra Stone: Writer and educator; board member of Graywolf Press; Sarah Warren: Children's book author and educator
ACHF Arts Access
I will develop my public engagement skills through readings of Edgewalker at Gilda's Club and the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance meetings. Community engagement will be successful if event participants feel that they have benefited from the event. I will gauge success through a community feedback form. 2: I will develop my artistic practice by working with two Minnesota editors to revise Edgewalker and prepare for eventual readiness to seek an agent. Advancement of artistic practice will be successful if my book reaches readiness for seeking an agent. I will determine readiness in consultation with my editors/mentors.
She developed her public engagement skills through readings of Edgewalker for Gilda's Club and the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance. Community engagement was successful because participants felt they benefited from the events. She gauged success through community feedback forms and also through direct conversations with community participants and sponsors following the events. 2: She developed her artistic practice by working with three Minnesota editors to revise Edgewalker and prepare for readiness to seek an agent. Advancement of artistic practice was successful because her book progressed significantly toward readiness for seeking an agent. She assessed readiness in consultation with her editors/mentors.