Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
Tofte Lake Center will provide a unique workshop for fourteen Minnesotans interested in visual arts and nature to support their artistic development. Successful completion of the proposed workshop; enrollment of fourteen Minnesota students for workshop; survey results indicate satisfaction with workshop experience and progress towards individual goals. 2: Visual arts programming is offered at Tofte Lake Center, in an underserved area of the state. The opportunity is promoted widely through local (Ely) media; low-cost participation is made available for local participants.
Having artists and instructors of varying disciplines from Minnesota together for a very successful workshop reinforced the need for workshops in natural settings to exist and develop. We handed out evaluation forms, asking them questions: a highlight of their experience, how being at TLC and the boreal forest impacted their experience artistically and personally, if they we able to reach their goals, how the botany field trip honed their observation and affected their work, what they gained from the interdisciplinary nature of this workshop and in their individual art-making process , what they would change, if they were returning to this course, what was their experience this second time around , and if they would recommend this residency to a friend/colleague. 2: Thanks to this grant, we were able to make the workshop extremely affordable, combining lodging and instruction, and thus filled up our lodging and instruction slots quickly. Evaluations showed that participants were all grateful for being here in this location, connected to the landscape, to their art, to one another, and were grateful for the time and space allowed to them, at such an affordable cost. They spoke extremely highly of the quality of instruction and the comfort of the facilities. They would all recommend the workshop to their friends, and many talked about wanting to return.
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