Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Obsatz will complete Bomb Pop: A Short Film about Ice Cream and Gentrification. He will organize a workshop for students on the subject of directing actors, and a screening of short narrative films.
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.
Anthony Adah: Film studies professor, MSU Moorhead; Sara Enzenauer: Executive director, Frozen River Film Festival; Alec Fischer: Documentary filmmaker; Rebecca Heidenberg: Filmmaker; Jennifer Kramer: Film director, producer, and writer; Robert Larson: Assistant professor of communication and media studies at The College of St. Scholastica; David Ryan: Video artist and teacher at Hamline; Arts Board grantee
ACHF Arts Access
Create a short narrative film about gentrification. Successful completion of the film, screening with Q and A and feedback. 2: Organize a screening of student short narrative films and a workshop on directing actors. Attendance at the screening and the workshop, written feedback.
The film is complete, and turned out excellent! Responses from peers thus far, and acceptance into the 2021 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival - more screenings to follow in 2021! 2: due to limitations imposed by Covid-19, I have not been able to hold this workshop yet. Planning is underway to complete the screening and workshop aspect of this project in the summer of 2021!
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