Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
The "Oddest Sea", a six-week exploration of musical theatre.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Amy Varsek: education director, Duluth Art Institute; Kendra Carlson: writing and theater instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth; David Marty: former director of the Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The "Oddest Sea" will provide participants opportunities to learn, practice, and demonstrate skills integral to musical theatre performance. Students will memorize their lines, song lyrics, melodies, and dance movements. Students will demonstrate knowledge of musical terminology. Students will demonstrate growth in vocal performance skills (e.g. projection, tonality, expression). Students will demonstrate growth in social-emotional skills integral to performance (e.g. focus, teamwork, preparedness). Audience members will be exposed to an engaging, high quality musical theatre production performed by local youth. Outcomes will be measured through pre-post assessments and progress toward individual goals identified in1:1 goals-setting conference. Program participants, their families, staff, and audience members will be surveyed to gauge the impact of the project and gain insight into their experiences as well as suggestions for future performing arts programs.
The "Oddest Sea" provided participants opportunities to learn, practice, and demonstrate skills integral to musical theater performance. Students memorized their lines, song lyrics, melodies, and dance movements. Students demonstrated knowledge of musical terminology. Students demonstrated growth in vocal performance skills. Students demonstrated growth in social-emotional skills integral to performance. Audience members were exposed to engaging, quality musical theater performed by local youth.
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