Arts Learning
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,809
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
June 2012
End Date
August 2012
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Ramsey
Project Overview
Book, ceramic, and textile arts summer program
Project Details
Funding for a six-week summer arts program introducing book, ceramic, and textile arts to high school age immigrant and refugee girls and culminating in the 5th annual Cultural Art Imbizio celebration.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Joe Sullivan: Development Officer, University of Minnesota; Gary Kelsey: Program Director, Saint Marys' University; Michelle Woster: Managing Director, Ten Thousand Things Theater; Claire Avitabile: Artistic Director, 20% Theatre Company Twin Cities; Alberto Justiniano: Artistic Director, Teatro del Pueblo; Marlina Gonzalez: Director, Maynila Management; Stacey Dahlstrom: Community Education, Roseville Area Schools; Leah Ritz: Tronics Team Coordinator, Park Avenue Youth and Family Services; Heather Doyle: Artistic Director, Chicago Ave Fire Arts Center; Christian Novak: Information and Development Coordinator, Northern Clay Center.
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
$9,809
Other Funds Leveraged
$6,400
Direct expenses
$16,209
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
To offer book arts, ceramic hand building, and textile art to 30 high school aged immigrant and refugee girls.Self evaluation and program director observation.
Measurable Outcome(s)
Forty immigrant girls who fled countries experiencing humanitarian atrocities were given the voice to share and express their trauma through several different visual art forms.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Recipient Board Members
Amy Frimpong, Sangeeta Jain, Chia Lor, Mary Amel, Luta Tshihamba, Monica Svobodny, Charlotte Flowers, Dawn Stebbing, Kirsten Olson, Liz Knoot
Project Manager
First Name
Tanaegh
Last Name
Haddad
Organization Name
Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment
Street Address
Hamline Park Plaza, Ste 110 570 Asbury St
City
St Paul
State
MN
Zip Code
55104-1852
Phone
(651) 646-3268
Email
tanaegh@womenofwise.org
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