Arts Learning
Arts Learning
The Jungle Theater will offer an expanded 25-week playwriting education and mentorship program and a new four-week summer section of the program for teen girls/young women ages 14-18 that links with the theater's productions.
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.
Susan Berdahl: Marketing and grant writing contractor; Karen Charles: Founder, artistic/executive director, Threads Dance Project; Nolita Christensen: Community and nonprofit management consultant; woodworker; Alexander Legeros: Development officer, Museum of Russian Art; bassoonist; Kathleen Ray: Published playwright and founder of Playing On Purpose Productions; Therese Vogel: Community education director, Ulen-Hitterdal Public Schools; executive director, Top Hat Theatre; Sydney Willcox: Painting and ceramics teacher, Como Park Senior High School
ACHF Arts Education
Participants will gain knowledge of and skills in aspects of playwriting craft, including various styles, approaches, and perspectives. Demonstrations of learning/understanding of concepts through writing exercises and scenes, and discussions/analyses of scripts and other participants' writing in class and with mentors. 2: 42 or more diverse girls aged 14-18 will develop confidence in telling their stories via playwriting from diverse, local, inspiring role models. Qualitative feedback from participants after each section and in written surveys completed at program's end; documented teaching artist and mentor observations; video documentation.
Participants gained knowledge of and skills in aspects of playwriting craft, including different styles, approaches, and perspectives. Teaching artists and mentors observed and noted in written and verbal feedback demonstrations of learning/comprehension about the playwriting concepts taught, and via participant discussions about their own and others' writing. 2: 12 diverse girls and young women aged 14-18 developed confidence in telling their own stories via playwriting from diverse local female artists. We gathered qualitative feedback from participants, mentors, and participants' parents via surveys. Program artists and staff discussed outcomes and results. We also gathered recruitment and participant data and demographics.
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