Arts Learning

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,936
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community
Recipient Type
Tribal Government
Status
Completed
Start Date
September 2019
End Date
June 2022
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Redwood
Renville
Redwood
Renville
Project Overview

Arts Learning

Project Details

The Lower Sioux Indian Community will sustain the Dakota tradition of pottery by contracting with master artists to train apprentices in the skills, knowledge, and experience necessary to become independent pottery teachers.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Nolita Christensen: Community and nonprofit management consultant; woodworker; Christina Frederickson: Educator, gardener, and actor; Molly Gamble: Artist; former arts event planner at Maryland Institute College of Art; Heather Haynes: ; Sara Raappana: Published poet; editor of Cellpoems, a poetry journal; Norah Rendell: Executive director, Center for Irish Music; musician

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2019 First Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$90,936
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$66,211
Administration costs
$1,189
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Up to ten Teaching Apprentices will be trained by Master Artists to become pottery teachers. Number of pottery teachers certified by Lower Sioux; assess changes in skills, knowledge, and attitudes; dialogue and feedback through focus groups and interviews; training logs signed by Master Artist to track completion of teaching hours. 2: Native learners of all ages at Lower Sioux will gain knowledge about and an introduction to pottery. Observe classes lead by teaching apprentices; assess changes in skills, knowledge, and attitudes; dialogue and feedback through surveys and interviews; maintain program records tracking attendance, number of classes held, number of art pieces created.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Priscilla will become a master. She learned about mixing clay, throwing clay, centering, pulling walls, shaping clay, scratch work, trimming, how to use the tools, coiling, firing, glazing, painting, meanings of symbols.

Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Robert
Last Name
Larsen
Organization Name
Lower Sioux Indian Community
Street Address
39527 Reservation Hwy 1 PO Box 308
City
Morton
State
MN
Zip Code
56270-0308
Phone
(507) 697-6185x 8632
Email
robert.larsen@lowersioux.com
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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