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2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,200
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Pillsbury United Communities AKA Pillsbury House Theatre
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2015
End Date
December 2015
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Arts Access
Project Details
Pillsbury House Theatre will convene, train, and support 20 community-based artists as art block leaders who will create art projects to engage neighbors on the blocks where they live and support them in patronizing arts assets in their community.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
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.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Wendy Dayton: Arts and community leader and philanthropist.; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Susan Berdahl: Director of marketing and communications, St. David's Center; Laurel Bradley: Director and curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College; Mary Flicek: Arts administrator, board member, River Junctions Arts Council; Scott Gilbert: Theater artist and educator, director and producer, Segue Productions; Nicole Helget: Memoir and fiction writer, Mankato; Elizabeth Larson: Arts administrator, Bach Society of Minnesota, freelance musician; Larry Retzlaff: Landscape painting artist, portrait photographer, cofounder of Third Life Studio, and founder, Q1 Gallery, Minneapolis; Emily Wright: Managing director, Minnesota Guitar Society
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,200
Other Funds Leveraged
$56,628
Direct expenses
$155,828
Administration costs
$18,900
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.85
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Individuals will engage in more arts activities in their own neighborhoods. Attendance records and demographics, resident surveys, pre and post artist surveys and artist narrative observations will indicate whether barriers were mitigated and arts engagement increased.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Through the 30+ 2015 Art Blocks events, more than 3000 community members participated in arts activities on or near the blocks where they live. As outlined in our proposal, we had the artists fill out pre and post project surveys. We had them count and record the number of participants in each of their activities. We administered surveys to a sample set of neighborhood residents. We also proto-typed a new form of creative evaluation using the red A’s designed and printed by Art Blocks artist Peter Haakon Thompson. We asked people to display the A in their window if they felt more connected to their neighbors because of arts. We are in the midst of counting and determining the results of this evaluation prototype.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Faysal Abraham, Andy Augustine, Chanda Smith Baker, Lindsay Benjamin, Marnie Bumstead, Cori Factor, JoAnn Harris, Kurt Lieberman, Travis Leonard, Peggy Mezile, Amit Patel, Raj Patel, Adam Patil, Paul Pribbenow, Lisa Sayles-Adams, Norah Shapiro, Stephan Vos, Cordelia Anderson, Pam Arnold, Chanda Smith Baker, John Humleker, Jim Langemo, Marianne Merriman, Sarah Milligan-Toffler, Eric Mueller, Julia Sand, Norah Shapiro, Nedy Windham
Project Manager
First Name
Noël
Last Name
Raymond
Organization Name
Pillsbury United Communities AKA Pillsbury House Theatre
Street Address
3501 Chicago Ave S
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55407
Phone
(612) 787-3620
Email
raymondn@puc-mn.org
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Administered By
Administered by

Minnesota State Arts Board

Location

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

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
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Email the Agency
msab@arts.state.mn.us
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