Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Expansion of MPWW's One-On-One Mail Mentor Program.
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute Program Director; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Donna Saul Millen: TPT-Twin Cities PBS Events Director; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney.
Andy Sturdevant: Artistic, Organizational Development, General Administration; Audrey Park: Community Education, General Administration, Audience Development / Marketing; Beverly Cottman: Community Education, Artistic, Volunteerism; Courtney Gerber: Education, Volunteerism, Audience Development / Marketing; Deborah Jinza Thayer: Artistic, Education; Emmy Carter: Fundraising, Audience Development / Marketing, Organizational Development; Jenea Rewertz-Targui: Community Education, Disabilities/Accessibility Specialist, Education; Kevin Yang: Youth Programming, Artistic, Community Education; Malia Cole: Fundraising, Audience Development / Marketing, Organizational Development; Max Erickson: Audience Development / Marketing, Volunteerism, Fundraising.
ACHF Arts Access
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) will significantly expand its one-on-one mail Mentor Program to men and women incarcerated in four Metro Area state prisons, increasing the number of active mentorships from 18 to 50. In evaluative surveys administered after the project period, over 95% of mentees will report that their participation in the Mentor Program challenged them creatively, improved their command of craft fundamentals, increased their confidence, generated a feeling of empowerment, and connected them with a broader artistic community. Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) staff will closely track participation in the Mentor Program at four facilities, as well as attendance at the public reading. At the end of the project period, staff will administer formal evaluative surveys to both mentors and mentees.
We successfully expanded our mail mentor program from eighteen mentor-mentees pairs to 64. Evaluative surveys showed that over 95% of mentees felt creatively challenged, artistically supported, empowered, and more confident as a result of their mentorship.
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