Arts Ecosystem Grant

ARTS in Ely would like to unify as a collaborative of artists and arts organizations to 1) better communicate with each other, 2) help local artists find others that are doing similar work, 3) help artists visiting from other communities to find local artists with similar interests, 4) help arts organizations find people interested in participating in their productions, work as teachers, or exhibit their work. We will measure the impact of the collaboration with a pre- and post-evaluation. Accomplishing communication and other vital goals requires artists to have the opportunity to gather, face-to-face. A short paper survey at the first meeting will assess some specific goals that were created at our first meeting in 2017. People will be able to rate how well or not they feel we are meeting those first goals. We will also request evaluation of the current state of communication between artists and art organizations. After the two meetings, we will again assess artists and organizations with a short survey to see if communications have improved, can people contact and network with others more easily, can artists share and grow with others doing similar work; is increased communication and networking allowing more artistic work to be done in the community. For the second survey we may use an on-line poll. All results, both written and digital will be compiled and the results sent to all artists. Another good measure of interest in the collaborative and working together is the number of people we hope will show up at the first meeting. We hope to have at least 75 people attend.