Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Mizna Pages.
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.
Pete Tedrow: Education, youth programming, artistic; Shana Crosson: Computer systems, education, fundraising; Ian Vaver: Administration, artistic; Patty Richardson: Fundraising, organizational development, disabilities specialist; Kathryn Rosebear: Fundraising, organizational development; Lauren Ignaut: Education, artistic.
ACHF Arts Education
Students will be exposed to new literary content through at least 40 Arab American writings and will demonstrate a better knowledge of Arab American experiences and major themes in contemporary Arab American writing through discussions, writing, other activities, and surveys. Students will demonstrate enhanced skills at critically analyzing poems and other writing for meaning and technique through discussion and critical response questions, and more complex thinking and understanding of general experiences of immigration, heritage, and identity in their own life through connections offered in Arab American work through discussions and creative writing. We will evaluate our outcomes by doing a pre-assessment and post-assessment to gauge students' growth in understanding of Arab American literature and the art of writing generally. We will solicit a student creative writing and open question-response to gauge what themes and prompts have engaged them, and see how this reflects on the project outcomes.
By far our most significant outcome would be the number and diversity of students introduced to Arab American creative expression for the first time. Four different schools, five different teachers with six classes totaling over 60 students were exposed to nine Mizna Pages study guides, as well as four local Arab American writer visiting classrooms to read their work and lead discussion.
Other, local or private