Arts Learning
Arts Learning
In Focus: Digital Media Arts and Youth Leadership.
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.
Chad Kampe: General administration, education, artistic; Terri Thao: Organizational development, community education, general adminstration; Kate Fisher: Education, artistic; Jacqueline Stahlman: Community education, education, general administration; Ashleigh Penrod: Artistic, administration, marketing; Karen Charles: Artistic, education, administration.
ACHF Arts Education
The artistic goals of In Focus are to: (1) Expand the access to art for youths of color, (2) Leverage the talents of community artists for social betterment, and (3) Develop artistic interest for at-risk youths. In Focus includes include SMART (specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, time-related) outcomes. We plan to recruit, train and mentor 15+ at-risk, low-income students of color from 9th - 12th grades, who will create youth-led media artworks to use for community engagement and media literacy. The DIAL will employ and compensate a minimum of 3 community artists to facilitate the program. We will provide at least 2 community/school presentations or outlets for their work and engagement activities. The DIAL and our partners will measure artistic success through pre- and post-program participant surveys, interviews, focus group discussion and critiques of art projects, and regular monitoring and evaluation of In Focus activities. The DIAL Group will collect participant feedback through pre- and post-program surveys and interviews. We will evaluate In Focus Artistically - Media art products are effective and well received by the general public, with successful media arts training of 15+ youth; Financially - In Focus activities are completed within budget and time-frame; and Experientially - At least 3 artists of color work together as a team and increase their capacity to sharing media arts skills with a new generation of artists of color.
More than 20 at-risk students of color were trained and mentored and three artists of color were employed with more than 200 people attending a public screening of the final project. The youth found media arts to be a useful tool in supporting the community and they felt more comfortable due to interacting with artists from similar backgrounds as themselves.
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