Arts Access

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,316
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Ten Thousand Things Theater
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2015
End Date
April 2016
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Ramsey
Hennepin
Ramsey
Project Overview
Arts Access
Project Details
Ten Thousand Things joins six new partners to bring Henry IV Part I, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and The New Don Juan free and directly to those without easy access: veterans, service industry workers, and the unemployed.
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
Yvonne Cory: Storyteller and textile artist, marketing representative, Faribault County Fair, career and technical instructor, Blue Earth high school; Melissa Cuff: Director of grants and foundation relations for YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities.; Venessa Fuentes: Philanthropy writer at Project for Pride in Living, poet; Sandra Gillespie: Visual artist, online writing instructor, University of Alaska Anchorage, former program director, Alaska State Arts Council; Gabriel Green: Founder and executive director, Wolffe Cultural Center, Duluth, founder and senior pastor, Church of Restoration Twin Ports; Paul Robinson: Senior community leadership consultant for the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
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
$60,316
Other Funds Leveraged
$13,541
Direct expenses
$73,857
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.5
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

We’ll build six new partnerships for our free community tours with sites who serve the working class, honing the relationship by returning with other show. Through conversation and written evaluation with audiences and staff, we’ll learn about both logistics and the degrees of audience engagement, implementing learning as we plan return performances. 2: With fourteen free performances we will reach 900 members of the working classes who have real and perceived barriers to access to professional theater. Through head counts, conversations and written evaluations where appropriate, we will continue to learn about barriers to participation in the arts.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Ten Thousand Things built new partnerships with nine organizations serving working class and deepened relationships with three partners via successive visits. We evaluated this project by using written post-show reports from our production manager, post-show discussions with audience members (sometimes facilitated), demographic surveys and audience counts, feedback collected from volunteers after shows, and post-show feedback from staff members. 2: The project reached 754 people, largely from veteran, immigrant, unemployed and disabled groups, who have real and perceived barriers to access the arts. We used demographic surveys and head counts from each performance to get an accurate account of how many people were served by this programming. Through post-show discussions and feedback from staff, we evaluated the extent to which our programming was breaking down barriers to participation in the arts.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Amy Apperson, John Beal, James Behnke, Laura Braun Pardo, Shá Cage, Nancy Evert, Jon Hallberg, Michelle Hensley, Cindy Kaiser, Michael Morrow, Sean Philips, Ellie Skelton, Denise Silva
Project Manager
First Name
Stephanie
Last Name
Thompson
Organization Name
Ten Thousand Things Theater
Street Address
3153 36th Ave S
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Phone
(612) 203-9502
Email
stephanie@tenthousandthings.org
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
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