Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Project Boom Site.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Carol Sirrine: Artistic, education, youth programming; Levi Weinhagen: Artistic, audience development/marketing, youth programming; Yumi Inomata: General management/administration, volunteerism, education; Pete Driessen: Artistic, education, community education; Barry Kleider: Artistic, education; Bob Olsen: General management/administration, organizational development/planning, fundraising; Dana LeMoine: Artistic, youth programming, community education; Carol Barnett: Artistic, education; Cross Cross: Education, youth programming, community education; Lann Briel: Artistic, audience development/marketing, general administration.
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Greg Nielsen (651) 645-0402
ACHF Arts Education
Working with authors and mentors, students will develop a youth literary journal, write and publish a writer's manual, participate in a two week writing intensive, read their work aloud on a radio show and develop content for an online resource page on creative writing. In addition, through surveys, we will assess whether students feel like they've become a part of a creative team and feel a sense of belonging and of accomplishment. We will survey all participants - writing instructors, authors, students, parents - to assess the depth of instruction and the quality of the experience. In addition, we will assess the quality of and response to our material published either electronically or in hard copy, including: a writer's manual, The Boom Site youth literary magazine, an online resource page, and youth readings on radio/podcast episodes of Voices in the Valley.
24 youth attended a writing intensive led by 18 artists. 1/2 of those students then joined one of our creative teams. 30 students submitted poetry, prose or visual arts to the magazine. 8 middle schoolers wrote a writer's manual. Student shared work with 55,000+ older listeners on KLBB. 12 instructional videos reside on our new resource page. All involved rated the experience a 4 or 5 (out of 5).
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