Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
Community Boat Building: Creating a Traditional, Nordic, Wooden Boat with Community Workshops.
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; 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; Sam Zimmerman: visual artist, teacher; Liz Engelman: dramaturg, founder and director of Tofte Lake Center; Jessica Peterson: essayist, playwright, co-founder of Yellow Tree Theater; Erin Cain: University of Minnesota-Duluth Student Liaison
Emily Derke: traditional craft artist, instructor at North House Folk School; Lucy Soderstrom: Program Coordinator at Ely Folk School; Peggy Poitra: Director of TRIO programs at Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
John and I have both lived in Duluth for nearly 10 years and have been involved in many ways in the Twin Ports community. We have individually and collectively collaborated with Nordic American organizations including the Nordic Center, The Sami Cultural Center of North America, and The Sons of Norway, Norway House, The American Swedish Institute and regional groups like the Duluth Boat Club, Duluth Superior Sailing Association, Duluth Fiber Handcrafters Guild, North House Folk School, Duluth Folk School, Lake Superior Nation Estuarine Research Reserve, Life House, Duluth Career Development Center, and others. John Finkle has a family connection to Norway and has spent decades learning traditional crafts from several mentors working in the Scandinavian-American ethnic tradition. I am also Nordic-American and my Norwegian family has been involved in building, sailing, exhibiting, and preserving wooden boats and ships for many generations. The measure of success will be having a functioning boat, as described, by the end of the project which was built with at least 40 community participants?who learned new skills by working with hand tools and by working together.
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