Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
The quantity and types of arts learning opportunities in the state, and the organizations or venues that offer them increases. Arts learning opportunities are more accessible to Minnesota because barriers to participation have been identified and mitigated. More Minnesotans are engaged in arts learning opportunities.
An eight-week arts learning program in digital photography was created in a collaboration between Free Arts Minnesota, photographer and teaching artist Wing Young Huie and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Though digital photography education for youth certainly exists elsewhere, the quality of the Game Face program and the opportunity it offered to at-risk youth to work with a renowned teaching artist and to exhibit work that reflected their life experiences at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts made this program innovative and truly unique. A combination of surveys for youth participants, social service agency staff participants were implemented. Also, evaluation meetings with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts staff, Free Arts staff and teaching artists were used to evaluate the quality of the program. 2: The at-risk youth who participated in the program experience many barriers to accessing arts education opportunities. 147 youth, who would not have otherwise had the opportunity to participate in a digital photography program, received quality education and displayed their photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A combination of surveys for youth participants and social service agency staff participants were implemented. Also, evaluation meetings with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts staff, Free Arts staff and teaching artists were used to evaluate the quality of the program.
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