Arts Access
Arts Access
COMPAS will collaborate with two organizations that work with adults with developmental disabilities to expand their access to quality art creation and provide opportunities for participants to share their artwork.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Officer-at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher. 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. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Lisa Anderson: Painter and teacher, on steering committee of the League of Longfellow Artists; Kimberly Buskala: Poet, visual artist, dance facilitator; Katherine Dodge: Retired executive director, Itasca Orchestra and Strings program; board member, Grand Rapids Arts and Culture Commission; Ryan Evans: Research associate, Wilder Research; musician; Devon Gilchrist: Social services program consultant, Minnesota Department of Human Services; Erinn Liebhard: Artistic director, Rhythmically Speaking Dance; Zahra Muse: Program and outreach coordinator, West Bank Business Association; project manager, Somali Museum of Minnesota; Christopher Palbicki: Artist and writer; former television producer, writer, and director
ACHF Arts Access
Adults with disabilities will participate in creative art-making programs and gain new tools that help them express and share ideas important to them. Artists and Site staff will: use tools (e.g. Observed Emotion Rating Scale) to observe and report on participants' arts learning, and lead participants through reflections about their experience and artwork. 2: COMPAS will expand its capacity to engage adults with disabilities in meaningful art making. We will track number of strategies artists can use to modify arts programming to accommodate adults with disabilities, and ask participants if they found meaning and/or felt challenged by the art making.
Adults with disabilities participated in creative art-making programs; gained tools that help express and share ideas important to them; built community. Participants reflected on experience with pre- and post-evaluation questionnaires; Evaluator held in-person observations of classes, tracked participant feedback and engagement levels with engagement tool; online evaluations filled out by artists and staf 2: COMPAS expanded staff and teaching artist capacity to engage adults with disabilities in meaningful art-making (6 TAs to a high level, 50 TAs total). Online evaluations tracked new techniques learned by TAs through professional development and work with participants. Observations by the COMPAS evaluator measured participant engagement and noted successful teaching strategies and adaptations.
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