Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Looze will create and produce their first musical: a semifictional rock opera musical about the first professional transgender tennis player. An in progress performance and talk back will be held 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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, 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. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; 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.
Julie Ahasay: Director and actor, Duluth Playhouse; retired faculty member, University of Minnesota Duluth; Rachel Bernstein: Arts administrator and performer; Aaron Gabriel: Award-winning composer and theater artist; Denise Neushwander-Frink: Theater artist and administrator; Amy Seham: Professor of theater and dance, Gustavus Adolphus; Benjamin Thietje: Cofounder and coartistic director of DalekoArts in New Prague
ACHF Arts Access
A.P. Looze will develop new skills in engagement through learning how to effectively produce their first musical. I will take time to research and develop relationships with interested theaters and consult with Springboard for the Arts to determine best ways to produce SECOND SERVE and future works. 2: A.P. Looze will expand their playwriting and theatrical development practice through mentorship in creating first musical. I will receive mentorship/guidance from artists in applying my hands-on solo performance skill set to draft a larger scale, multi-character musical in order to broaden my artistic ability.
A.P. Looze will develop new skills in learning how to effectively produce a series of music videos. Looze wrote, and recorded five original songs and collaboratively created accompanying music videos to create C'Mon Baby Stroke It! The Tennis Musical (Where Love Is Everything), which premiered at the Trylon Cinema. 2: A.P. Looze will expand their artistic practice through collaboration in creating their first film. A.P. Looze worked collaboratively with a composer, actors, director and a videographer to expand their multi-disciplinary performance practice to include film.
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