Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
Sharing Folk Music and Dancing in Duluth.
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; 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.
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kendra Carlson: writing and theater instructor, University of Minnesota Duluth; Patricia Canelake: visual artist.
ACHF Arts Education
Success for us, will look like: More dancing, more cloggers, more fiddlers, more banjo players, more dance bands, and more callers in the community. We increase our diversity overall and in age, ability, socioeconomic status, gender, and race. We want all folks to feel like they are welcome in folk dancing and folk music. We see both return musicians and dancers as well as folks trying dancing or playing for the first time. We want to have a place for everyone to grow. Specific outcomes would be: Every month attendance of fifteen musicians at the Slow Jam, 25 musicians at the Old time Jam, 30 people at each Family Dance and Dance Workshop. All participants feel safe, welcome, challenged, and supported in their learning experience. We will record attendance and offer a satisfaction survey for all participants to fill out at all events. The satisfaction survey would ask for a rating from one to five of feelings of safety, welcome, challenge, and support in learning. We will also ask for themes or topics for further workshops or jams.
220 dancers came to our Folk Dance Workshops and Community Dances. Responses from dancer surveys show that dancers were challenged to learn and felt supported by the instructors and the community. 120 people came to our Family Dances. Families wove maypole patterns, learned to sing and dance patterns together. 200 people came to our Slow Jams. We saw new players pick up and an instrument for the first time. Intermediate players improved in confidence, ability to learn tunes by ear, and awareness of the group sound.
Other,local or private