Arts Access
Arts Access
The Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community will collaborate with people and organizations led by people of color, to increase engagement in a newly developed readers theater program, new improv classes, and Renegade Theater performances.
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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, 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; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; 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. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Catherine Belleveau: Founder and artistic director, Mask and Rose Women's Theater Collective; Rhonda Dass: Associate professor of anthropology and director of museum studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Horslev Gilbert: Community outreach director, Holmes Theatre; McKayla Murphy: Program resources specialist at Girl Scouts River Valleys; dance instructor and program coordinator; Simon Sperl: Director of corporate and foundation relations. Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities; Chelsea Unold: Free Arts progam manager, Big Brothers Big Sisters Greater Twin Cities; Julio Zelaya: Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project Coordinator with the American Civil Liberties Union
ACHF Arts Access
We will introduce and begin to integrate more audience and artists of color into Renegade programming, both theatrical and improv. Surveys, interviews, and focus groups will be conducted over the course of the year with the project participants and audiences measuring their interactions and attitudes regarding Renegade 2: Renegade will build new relationships with project participants helping to influence future theatrical and improv programming. The new program participant relationships will expand the perspectives and experiences influencing Renegade by participating in both theatrical and improv future season development.
We introduced 186 new audience and four new artists of color into Renegade theatrical programming. Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys, artists and audience Counts, and one-to-one conversations about attitudes and interactions. 2: Renegade made relationships with the constituents of four partner organizations to select two plays which led to a new board and staff member. Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys, numeric counts, and one-to-one conversations.
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