Arts Education

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Recipient
River City Rhythm, Inc
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
In Progress
Start Date
January 2025
End Date
December 2025
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Wright
Wright
Project Overview

Arts Education

Project Details

River City Rhythm will offer free clinics for youth interested in the marching arts. Seven clinics will be hosted around the state that will focus on introducing new students to drum line and color guard by teaching technical and performance skills.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Carol Bruess: author, speaker, relationship social scientist, and creator; Uri Camarena: business consultant; Michael Charron: arts educator, arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice, former state legislator; Emily Galusha: arts and civic leader, former arts administrator; Anthony Gardner, healthcare consultant; Ken Martin: political strategist, campaign manager; Philip McKenzie: adjunct college faculty; Michele Sterner: higher education administrator; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Woods: executive director, arts organization

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Stephanie Hunder: Hunder is a printmaker and mixed media artist originally from Rochester. She has taught visual arts in the Twin Cities for more than 20 years, currently at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She received her BFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin?Madison, and her MFA from Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ). Recent activities include solo exhibitions at the Priebe Gallery at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Bloomington Art Center, and Gordon Parks Gallery of Metro State University. Recent group exhibitions include ?Printmaking: A Social Practice? at University of Wisconsin?Madison, and ?Optical Impermanence? at the IMPACT conference in Bristol, UK.; Stephen Kingsbury: Kingsbury is a dynamic and exciting conductor and educator who is dedicated to inspiring students and audiences alike through impassioned performances and a deep commitment to choral excellence. Kingsbury serves as director of choral activities and professor of music at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Kingsbury holds both a BA in music preteaching and a master of arts in teaching degree from the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH), a master of music degree in conducting from Boston University (Boston, MA), and a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.; Nazara Matos: Nazara Matos graduated from Metropolitan State University in 2011 with a degree in Studio Arts and Youth Studies. Currently, she works as the Operations Manager for the Housing and Youth Development Department at Tubman while also running her own photography business. She has volunteered with The Bockley Gallery, Free Arts Minnesota, Good Grocer and Mission Dance Studios. Nazara's photographic work has been displayed at the Gordon Parks Gallery, The Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Building and has been featured by the Smithsonian Magazine's online publication both in 2018 and 2019.; Rupa Nair: Nair is a senior controls specialist with an environmental company. Nair graduated from Texas A and M (College Station, TX) with a MS in construction management and holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from India. Nair is a trained Indian classical dancer since the age of seven and is currently a company artist with Katha Dance Theatre. Nair has served as a board member with Minnesota Malayalee Association and volunteers her time as a grant application reviewer with the Minnesota State Arts Board and for other arts and creative projects.; John Neveaux: Neveaux is an attorney, educator, and theatre artist who desires to bring the arts to local communities. He has been an actor and lighting designer for most of the 50 years since he left the undergraduate drama program at St. John's University and acquired a master's degree in theatre. For the last 17 years, he has worked in community theatre in the Metro and served on various boards.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota, 2023 regular session, chapter 40, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3; Minnesota Session Laws, 2024 regular session, chapter 106, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$24,000
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Minnesota youth will participate in free educational drumline and colorguard clinics to learn about the marching arts and improve performance skills. Outcomes will be evaluated based on the number of students that participate in each clinic, participant feedback collected from the students at the conclusion of each clinic, and community attendance at post-clinic performances.

Project Manager
First Name
Bojan
Last Name
Hoover
Organization Name
River City Rhythm, Inc
Street Address
3642 Brentwood Dr
City
Monticello
State
MN
Zip Code
55362
Phone
(612) 247-3854
Email
bojan@rivercityrhythm.org
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
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