Arts Learning

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Deborah Elias Danza Espanola

Status

Completed

Start Date

January 2012

End Date

November 2012

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Ramsey

Project Overview

Flamenco residencies

Project Details

Funding for a series of residencies in flamenco dance, music and culture in seven elementary schools from February through October of 2012. Each residency will culminate in a community celebration.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Carol Sirrine: Executive Director, ArtStart; Peg Wetli: CLIMB Theatre; David Bach: Development Director, Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota; Sally Sand: Assistant Regional Development Manager, Trust for Public Land; Dan Thomas: Executive Director, Free Arts Minnesota; Linda Hansen: Education Director, Weavers Guild of Minnesota; Mary Cummings: Executive Director, Tapestry Folkdance Center; Dixie Rairamo: Youth Dance Ensemble.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Yes

Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$10,000

Other Funds Leveraged

$2,792

Direct expenses

$12,792

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Build understanding and appreciation of skill in flamenco and create a public performance.Conducted through age-appropriate questionnaires developed by the teaching artists and completed by students.

Measurable Outcome(s)

589 students participated; the vast majority reported gaining a strong sense of success and achievement by being challenged to learn something new and then performing it, and an increased openness to dance, new art forms, and unfamiliar cultures.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Kate Cooper, Christine Kozachok, Steve Morse, Barbara Roche, Mary Sullivan Rickey

Project Manager

Deborah

Elias

Deborah Elias Danza Espanola

117 Mackubin St Ste 5

St Paul

55102