Arts Activities Support

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
BodyCartography Project
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2017
End Date
December 2017
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Arts Activities Support
Project Details
Funding to develop and present the felt room, a performance installation dance utilizing sound and light to invite a viewer’s authentic engagement with their bodies themselves in the context of the museum. Performances will premiere in summer 2017 in Minn
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher and performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair of El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Artistic Director of World Music and Dance and the International Children’s Festival; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Katie Vang: Artistic, organizational development, community service; Ben Krywosz: Artistic, organizational planning, administration; Christina Dahlheimer: Fundraising, organizational development, administration; Reona Berry: Artistic; Sarah Steichen Stiles: Administration, artistic, community service, education, youth programming; Katherine Smith-Flores: Education, administration; Dawn Witt Saxton: Marketing, administration, volunteerism, organizational development; Jijun He: General administration; Alyssa Hawkins: Education, community service, organizational development.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$29,450
Direct expenses
$39,450
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Our artistic goals are to: Present the felt room in a visual arts institution for an full exhibition period; Provide participating artists and audiences with engaging and challenging contemporary work; Use dance to explore movement’s therapeutic potential individually and collectively; Build a high quality work locally that can tour nationally and internationally; and build cohesive documentation of the felt room. Minnesota artists will develop their artistic practice. The artist will develop skills in presenting and documenting standalone performance work for a visual art context for the first time. We will build cohesive documentation of the work. Will collect attendance numbers. We will engage visitors to gather feedback with new audiences, peers, colleagues and curators from conversation and visitors book. We will track and collect press coverage and social media hits. Future bookings of the work will be a mark of the works success.

Measurable Outcome(s)

181 people attended the felt room. Audience (drawings, writings, conversations, student reviews, facebook exchanges) and critical media response have affirmed that this is unique and powerful new art experience for the majority of the attendees. “I’d recommend the felt room to anyone who feels like their imagination is powerful but held captive to their own mental restraints.” Audience response.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
MichΦle Steinwald, Christopher Holman, Christine Podas-Larson, Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad
Project Manager
First Name
Olive
Last Name
Bieringa
Organization Name
BodyCartography Project
Street Address
3304 24th St E
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55406
Phone
(917) 463-9300
Email
olive@bodycartography.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
Email the Agency
Location

PO Box 14106
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

Phone
Project Manager: Kathy Mouacheupao
651-645-0402
Email the Agency