Artists Engage Community

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Recipient
Mary S. Overlie
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
May 2024
End Date
August 2024
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Beltrami
Beltrami
Project Overview

Artists Engage Community

Project Details

Funds will help Mary Overlie to fully develop, Harp and Sol, a newly spun musical folk tale for audiences young and old, explores themes of girl muscle, abandonment, and the resonant power of music.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Anna Larson, singer-songwriter and visual artist; Nicholas Jackson, visual artist, musician, filmmaker; Nancy Schmidt, arts appreciator; Becky Colebank, visual artist and author; Terry Boal Leinbach, visual artist; Bonnie Friborg, visual artist; Shawna Wendler, arts reporter for local paper; Georgia Connelly, visual artist; Laurie Turner, art appreciator and arts advocate.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Nancy Schmidt, arts appreciator and R2AC Board Member; Bonnie Friborg, visual artist and R2AC Board member; Kathryn Gonzalez, dancer and participatory artist; Deedee Narum, visual artist; Emily Thabes, Director of the Beltrami County History Center; Gillian Bedford, visual artist; Juleigh Prosser, visual artist, writer, and sculptor; Rachel Kultala, arts appreciator; Leah Grunzke, visual artist and arts administrator; Dave Mosier, arts appreciator; Eve Sumsky, fiber artist and musician; Joan Kauppi, visual artist.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,600
Direct expenses
$7,600
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

As a result of seeing Harp and Sol, families and young people will experience a new awareness for the power of music, puppetry and mime to bring them into closer contact with a dormant part of their humanity - the place primally wired for the wordless relating only possible with melody, with puppets, with mime. Puppetry and mime depend on viewer's involvement to be ?real.' Our hope is each audience member will uniquely live out Harp and Sol's story, specific to what they needed to see and hear. Evaluation methods include an audience survey, written for youth and family members, administered after the play to measure audience members connection to the non-verbal aspects of the story telling, including movement, puppetry, instrumental music, and mime in children ages 3-18.

Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Mary
Last Name
Overlie
Organization Name
Mary S. Overlie
State
MN
Phone
(218) 444-8170
Email
mary@mudsong.net
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

PO Box 693
505 Bemidji Ave N
Bemidji, MN 56601

Phone
Project Manager: Patrick Calder Carriere
(218) 751-5447
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