Arts and Cultural Heritage
Arts and Cultural Heritage
They will host the Summit Avenue Music Series, three high quality chamber music concerts: Brahmsfest in September 2018; The Pro Arte Quartet in January 2019; and Lydia Artymiw and Wilhelmina Smith in April 2019. Funds will be used for artist fees.
Steve Davis: orchestra member, orchestra volunteer, music school volunteer; Denice Evers: retired teacher, community theater volunteer; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: 4-H Coordinator, education coordinator, board member; Diane Harms: singer; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, retired art teacher, art center instructor; Margie Larson: visual artist and retired college international student coordinator; Charles Luedtke: retired music professor, Organists guild; Randy Mediger: retired principal, retired teacher, community theater charter member; Liz Miller: visual artist, art professor; Lauren Shoemaker: school music instructor; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, gallery executive director; Carol Soma: retired language arts teacher, theater volunteer; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, fair and festival board volunteer.
Steve Davis: orchestra member, orchestra volunteer, music school volunteer; Denice Evers: retired teacher, community theater volunteer; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: 4-H Coordinator, education coordinator, board member; Diane Harms: singer; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, retired art teacher, art center instructor; Margie Larson: visual artist and retired college international student coordinator; Charles Luedtke: retired music professor, Organists guild; Randy Mediger: retired principal, retired teacher, community theater charter member; Liz Miller: visual artist, art professor; Lauren Shoemaker: school music instructor; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, gallery executive director; Carol Soma: retired language arts teacher, theater volunteer; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, fair and festival board volunteer.
ACHF Arts Access
The quality, types and number of arts opportunities in our region and the organizations or venues that offer them increases. Real or perceived barriers to arts participation and arts access are identified and addressed. We will use informal feedback by talking to audience members. We will do a formal survey at our final concert of the season.
We administered a survey at our last concert on April 14, 2019. The information we received from this survey showed that we are meeting our goals by reaching a wider area outside of Brown, Blue Earth, and Nicollet counties. It also showed that we are growing our audience into all of the age groups. Finally, it shows that our audience appreciates the excellence of the concerts, and the day and time they are offered. We have many repeat concert goers. We have also learned that our word-of-mouth audience members are growing. In the future, we would like to explore ways to increase the number of our special group attendees and also our ethnic audience members.
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