Arts Learning
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
May 2012
End Date
May 2013
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Project Overview
Kids Play
Project Details
Funding for the third season of Kids Play, a free year-round music mentoring program for high school orchestra students beginning in May 2012.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Beverly Cottman: Dance Instructor, African American Academy for Accelerated Learning; Barry Kleider: Photographer; Clea Galhano: Executive Director, Saint Paul Conservatory of Music; Tricia Khutoretsky: Curator, Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project; Joanna Cortright: Consultant; George Sand: Managing Director, El Colegio Charter Arts High School; Rolf Erdahl: Chamber Music Lakeville; Scott Winters: Executive Director, River Ridge Arts; Danette Olsen: Board Member, ArtReach Saint Croix.
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
No
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
$8,388
Direct expenses
$18,388
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
To provide artistic mentoring and engagement between professional orchestral musicians and an urban high school orchestra.Student surveys and music director, parental, and professional musician assessments.
Measurable Outcome(s)
100 and and orchestra students from two high schools whose families cannot afford private lessons benefited from the expertise of professional musicians and teachers over the course of the 2012-13 school year.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Recipient Board Members
Cynthia Stokes, Larry Zimmerman, Laura Hahn, Michael Coddington, Samuel Cutter-Wilson, Lynn Erickson, Shelley Hanson, Margaret Johnson, Mark Kausch, Jere Lantz, Barbara Thomas, Arnold Walker, Richard Wildberger
Project Manager
First Name
Lucia
Last Name
Magney
Organization Name
Minneapolis Pops Orchestra Association
Street Address
2712 41st Ave S
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55406-1810
Phone
(612) 219-1707
Email
lmagney@bitstream.net
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