Arts and Cultural Heritage
Arts and Cultural Heritage
They will expand their summer dance programs to include pre-point ballet, boys hip hop, beach party, glee camp and technique classes and will offer a free summer camp for children to try dance. The funds will be used for 2019 summer studio rent.
Steve Davis: member of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, member of the Minnesota State University/Community Orchestra, volunteer for Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, volunteer for New Ulm Suzuki School of Music; Denice Evers: retired teacher, volunteer with the Springfield Community Theater; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: Martin County 4-H coordinator, former education coordinator at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, board member for the Martin County Area Foundation, board member for the Fairmont Community Education; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, art teacher, and a member and instructor at the Waseca Art Center; Margie Larson: visual artist, retired coordinator in the International Students Office at Minnesota State University Mankato; Charles Luedtke: retired college Professor of Music, New Ulm and member of the Sioux Trails Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Randy Mediger: retired principal, teacher, charter member of LeSueur Community Theater; Liz Miller: visual artist, college professor of Art at Minnesota State University Mankato; Lauren Shoemaker: music instructor at Saint Peter Public Schools; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, executive director of the 410 Project Gallery Mankato; Carol Soma: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Kee Civic Theatre; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, volunteer on Sibley County Fair Board and community festivals.
Steve Davis: member of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, member of the Minnesota State University/Community Orchestra, volunteer for Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, volunteer for New Ulm Suzuki School of Music; Denice Evers: retired teacher, volunteer with the Springfield Community Theater; Kristie Gaalswyk-Pomerenke: Martin County 4-H coordinator, former education coordinator at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, board member for the Martin County Area Foundation, board member for the Fairmont Community Education; Karen Krause: visual artist, retired school counselor, retired art teacher, member and instructor at the Waseca Art Center; Margie Larson: visual artist, retired coordinator in the International Students Office at Minnesota State University Mankato; Charles Luedtke: retired college professor of Music, New Ulm and member of the Sioux Trails Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Randy Mediger: retired principal, retired teacher, charter member of LeSueur Community Theater; Liz Miller: visual artist, college professor of Art at Minnesota State University Mankato; Lauren Shoemaker: music instructor at Saint Peter Public Schools; Dana Sikkila: visual artist, executive director of the 410 Project Gallery in Mankato; Carol Soma: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Kee Civic Theatre; Dennis Van Moorlehem: retired teacher, volunteer on Sibley County Fair Board, volunteer for community festivals.
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The number of Minnesotans who are able to participate in the arts increases. Parents and students will be surveyed. We believe that the majority of those surveyed will say they have had a positive experience. 305 students will be affected in addition to staff members. Based on performance attendance for 2 shows over 1500 community members will be affected. The elderly will also be included as we perform for several of the local retirement communities bringing the art of dance to them. This grant allows for us to continue that work. We provide surveys to our dance parents, students and staff at every performance. We are committed to improving and finding out how to better serve our community. The board of directors will create the survey based on the one provided by Prairie Lakes. The office manager will distribute and tabulate the results. It is very effective to see if we are achieving our mission. We found that after normal attrition we still enrolled 30 new students in this dance year. We tracked the number of our summer camp dancers has increased and we expect that this year as well.
We handed out surveys to parents and staff on the last day of each camp following the last day performances. Our office manager helped to hand them out and we tabulated the completed surveys. We discovered that we have a certain group of our community that ONLY takes dance in the summer and their children do other sports in the school year. This is very useful for programming and also helps us set realistic conversion goals from summer to the regular season. We were not aware that our summer only families were as high in number as they are. Its an interesting sub-group in our studio. We also identified the need for a day time class during our regular season to reach our home school families better.
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