Arts Learning

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$122,989
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts AKA Interact
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
September 2018
End Date
September 2019
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Ramsey
Ramsey
Project Overview

Arts Learning

Project Details

One Heart/Many Voices! 12 teaching artists, eight coteaching artists with disabilities, and the Mississippi Creative Arts School students create poetry, original music, puppets, and theater in five weeks of learning, and two performance celebrations.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

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.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

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

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2017 Regular Session, chapter 91, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$122,989
Other Funds Leveraged
$19,140
Direct expenses
$142,129
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Students acquire skills, collaborate, experience diversity working with mentors with disabilities, and create a cohesive new work. Teaching artists and classroom teachers meet weekly and at project-end to assess student satisfaction, grasp of new skills. Students shout-out and write comments, spontaneously and to prompts. 2: Students, Teaching Artists, and Classroom Teachers create a play and perform it for the entire school, their families, and their community. Interact, classroom teachers, school leadership, parents evaluate impact of the play, per observation of students and their own responses. Students shout-out and write comments on production process.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Students acquired skills, collaborated, experienced diversity working with mentors with disabilities, and created a new work. Weekly and project-end conversations with classroom teachers and teaching artits to assess student satisfaction and skill building. Also used simple, yet effective, evaluation questionnaire. 2: Students, teaching artists, and classroom teachers created a play and performed it for the entire school and again for families and community audience. Teaching artists, classroom teachers, school leadership, and parents met to talk about the impact of the play based on students' enthusiasm and audience response. Also used simple evaluation questionnaires for various sectors.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
achieved proposed outcomes
Source of Additional Funds

Other,local or private

Recipient Board Members
Jeanne Calvit, Robert Spikings, Jan Hoistad, Lori Leavitt, Patricia Bachmeier, Ann Leming, Susan Shapiro, Patrick Dow.
Project Manager
First Name
Jeanne
Last Name
Calvit
Organization Name
Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts AKA Interact
Street Address
1860 Minnehaha Ave W
City
St Paul
State
MN
Zip Code
55104
Phone
(651) 209-3575
Email
sandydotmoore@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency