Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$2,800

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

City of Saint James

Recipient Type

Local/Regional Government

Status

Completed

Start Date

June 2012

End Date

August 2012

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Cottonwood

Watonwan

Project Overview

Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project

Project Details

They will present a series of six Friday night music concerts in the city park during the summer.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Denice Evers: retired teacher, and volunteer with Springfield Community Theater; Mary Jane Glawe: visual artist; Sara Krassin: arts administrator for the Childrens' Museum of Southern Minnesota; Joe McCabe: St. James City Manager, volunteers with the St. James Community Theater; Mary Motter: 5th grade teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary, arts volunteer; Pat Potzler: retired teacher, singer in the Minnesota Valley Sweet Adelines; Lill Robinson: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Blue Earth Community Theater; Paula Scheffler: substitute teacher in LeSueur; Melanie Schmidt: high school speech coach, Program Director for Mankato Community Education; Bonnie Taplin: volunteer with the Interlaken Heritage Days Festival; Elizabeth Traxler: teacher, playwright, director; Gina Wenger: professor of Art Education at Minnesota State University; Greg Wilkins: Director of Student Activities at Minnesota State University.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Denice Evers: retired teacher, and volunteer with Springfield Community Theater; Mary Jane Glawe: visual artist; Sara Krassin: arts administrator for the Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota; Joe McCabe: St. James City Manager, volunteers with the St. James Community Theater; Mary Motter: 5th grade teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary, arts volunteer; Pat Potzler: retired teacher, singer in the Minnesota Valley Sweet Adelines; Lill Robinson: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Blue Earth Community Theater; Paula Scheffler: substitute teacher in LeSueur; Melanie Schmidt: high school speech coach, Program Director for Mankato Community Education; Bonnie Taplin: volunteer with the Interlaken Heritage Days Festival; Elizabeth Traxler: teacher, playwright, director; Gina Wenger: professor of Art Education at Minnesota State University; Greg Wilkins: Director of Student Activities at Minnesota State University.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Yes

Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$2,800

Other Funds Leveraged

$3,020

Direct expenses

$5,820

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Our Concerts in the Park series seeks each year to increase our audience size, increase minority population participation in our audiences, work to provide awareness of benefits of arts programs to disadvantaged in our area, and create brochures to inform all residents about advantages in our concert series.In an ongoing effort to provide the types of programs which will be of interest to the residents of our community, we will again be conducting random surveys of our audiences and performers. These surveys will be done on a non-selected manner and will be compiled by staff for evaluation at the end of the series.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Their Concerts in the Park series increased their audience size, increased minority population participation in the audiences, worked to provide awareness of benefits of arts programs to disadvantaged in our area, and created brochures to inform all resid

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Nonnie Hanson, Josh Haseman, David Schmillen, John Hoffman, Britta Romsdahl, Susan Carlson, Michelle Chapin, Linda Buller

Project Manager

Linda

Buller

City of Saint James

PO Box 70 124 Armstrong Blvd S

St James

56081