Arts Learning
Arts Learning
The Minnesota Museum of American Art will bring skilled teaching artists and folk and fine art, media, and design classes to arts learners ages four and up in the new Sifo Center for Creativity, a new hub for creative expression in Saint Paul.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Bradley Althoff: Managing producer and senior project manager, Classical MPR; Roberta Gray: Director of Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls; Jane Gudmundson: Former education director, Plains Art Museum in Fargo; Kao Ly Ilean Her: Chief executive officer, Hmong Elders Center; former executive director, State of Minnesota Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans; Paul LaJeunesse: Assistant professor of art, College of St Scholastica; Andrew Nordin: Painter; Arts Board grantee; Molly Sheeley Melton: Educator, school for Environmenta Studies in Apple Valley
ACHF Arts Education
Program participants will gain confidence in tapping into their creative side within an artistic discipline about which they're curious. Participants will complete pre-/post-class surveys (oral or written) measuring understanding of and comfort engaging with relevant artistic discipline. 2: Program participants will develop empathy toward others through intercultural learning that emphasizes personal connection with cultural diversity. For classes focusing on culturally-specific folk arts, participants will complete pre-/post-class surveys (oral or written) assessing personal relationship to and comfort with represented culture.
Program participants gained confidence in tapping into their creative side within an artistic discipline about which they were curious. Participants completed pre-/post-class surveys measuring understanding of and comfort engaging with relevant artistic discipline. M staff and teaching artists also gathered information anecdotally through informal conversations with participants. 2: Program participants fostered personal connections across difference through art-making. Participants completed pre-/post-class surveys assessing personal relationship to and comfort engaging with each other in a group arts learning environment.
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