Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Preserving Native Traditional Arts II: Porcupine Quillwork.
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.
Erica Lee: Education; Maya Weisinger: Community development, community education, marketing; Linda Scott: Artistic, education; Crystal Brinkman: Youth programming, artistic; Christian Novak: Fundraising, marketing; Nadine Sehnert: Youth programming, artistic; Mike Newman: Education, organizational development; Heather Beal: Fundraising, audience development, organizational planning.
ACHF Arts Education
Twenty (20) adults and ten (10) youth will participate in ten (10) Traditional Porcupine Quillwork learning session and up to twelve (12) open-studio work sessions with an Elder and assistant who will teach those adults and youth about working with porcupine quills, including the process of sorting, dying, creating designs and completing pieces of artwork unique to Native culture. One (1) final event to be held in the Two Rivers Art Gallery will display the completed projects of participants. The number of participants in each class session, the number of participants attending the field trips and audience/participant count at the final event will be documented. In addition, Porcupine Quillwork Learning Session participants will complete a retrospective post-survey where they will talk about what they have learned, the art piece they made in class and its significance/importance.
Forty people signed up for Porcupine Quillwork Learning Sessions and twenty participants followed attended sessions and completed pieces.
Other, local or private