Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$3,500

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Green Isle Community School

Recipient Type

K-12 Education

Status

Completed

Start Date

May 2012

End Date

May 2012

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Le Sueur

McLeod

Scott

Sibley

Project Overview

Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project

Project Details

They will have an Artist in Residency where students interview elders work with artists to create plays and music based on the elderÆs lives.

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

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 Education

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$3,500

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,060

Direct expenses

$4,560

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The number of Minnesotans who are engaged in arts education and learning opportunities increases. To increase publicity for our EldersÆ Celebration program and to increase audience attendance to 250.We will evaluate the ElderÆs Celebration Program by video/audio recordings; surveys from elders, students, artists, community, and staff; data collected; staff and artist discussions. Staff will create the surveys, distribute them, and tabulate the results. The surveys will be created and changed from year to year according to the results from staff and artist discussions.

Measurable Outcome(s)

The number of Minnesotans who were engaged in arts education and learning opportunities increased. They increased publicity for their Elders’ Celebration program and increased audience attendance to 250.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Sharon Ehrich, Dan Brown, Jenn Wartman, Nick Pollack, Kristine Schwartz, Kristen Strauss, Terry Kroehler

Project Manager

Terry

Kroehler

Green Isle Community School

190 McGrann St PO Box 277

Green Isle

55338-0277