Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
2021 Virtual Indigenous Film Series. Will host 7 Indigenous produced films virtually.
Tara Makinen: former-Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Leah Yellowbird; visual artist, designer; Tiffany Quade: visual artist; Classie Dudley: ARAC Equity Fellow
ACHF Cultural Heritage
Khayman Goodsky, a Two-Spirit tribal member of the Bois Forte Ojibwe, is a filmmaker and an Indigenous creative. Khayman has featured her artwork designs and clothing at many AICHO arts events. Jonathan Thunder, tribal member of the Red Lake Nation, has had his paintings and films showcased on reservations, nationwide and at AICHO. Both of their short films will be screened before one of the main films. Attendance to screenings and the filmmaker panel is our main measure of success. We will track numbers of attendance for each screening and the panel to look at numbers year over year. We want to increase numbers each year to be able to reach more people in the community, and to provide value to the filmmakers through a diverse audience. If we can reach capacity for attendance over the next ten years we will reach our goal. By exposing more people to these films we can provide more value to the filmmakers who participate in our event. In turn, if we continue to see growth in attendance over the years then we know that we have become a trusted partner in the community in cinematic exhibition. Another metric of evaluation will be audience surveys after the screenings. This will help us learn which films and filmmakers the audience connected with. We want to ensure that we are present content that engages the community.
We were able to deliver Indigenous cinematic experiences to our our community and region about Indigenous ways of being, cultural and spiritual awareness and contemporary as well as historical understanding of Indigenous lived experience through all of the films. Our films focused and enlightened community about issues of domestic violence, a documentary about the life and poetry of US first American Indian Pulitzer Prize Winner, a contemporary love story about identity, place and traditions, as well as environmental and loss of tribal/cultural connections but finding healing and connection in the end, plus more social issues and animation that included cultural language and themes.
Other,local or private