Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
Bluegrass Masters Weekend - Mandolinist Joe K. Walsh teaches workshops and performs with band.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; 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.
Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Patricia Canelake: visual artist; Kendra Carlson: writing and theater instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth; Serenity Schoonover: writer.
ACHF Arts Education
Our goal for this year's event is to serve our mandolin students an excellent learning experience with one of the bluegrass circuit's top mandolin players and instructors. Joe K. Walsh was selected for this year's event because he has a stellar reputation as both a player and instructor, and because we know he will teach our students a great deal that they can take home with them and apply to their daily practice. Our measurable outcomes for success are serving a goal of 120 people (workshop attendees, jammers, and concertgoers), hearing from workshop participants that they had a wonderful time learning from Joe and that they will take what they've learned into their daily practice, and receiving enthusiastic feedback on the surveys we hand out to weekend jamming participants and our concert audience. We will consider our project a success if we serve our goal of 120 people, we receive enthusiastic feedback from our workshop participants and instructor, and we receive highly positive feedback on surveys handed out to weekend jamming participants and our concert audience. We will measure outcomes through an assessment of feedback and data derived from workshop student, jammer, and concert audience surveys; a count of workshop attendees; and a count of concert tickets sold. These results will be used by the NSMA Board and Director in planning future Bluegrass Masters Weekends.
We were able to provide quality education outreach for the public with an event at the Art Colony for the general public. It was an all-ages educational program featuring the string trio of Brittany Haas (fiddle), Brittany Karlson (bass), and Joe K. Walsh (mandolin), "a modern string band?from bluegrass to old-time, with many stops along the way." The artists discussed topics such as the use of fiddle, mandolin, and bass across various musical genres, what characterizes each genre, the history of the instruments, how they're built, etc.
Other,local or private