Arts Tour Minnesota
ACHF Arts Access
More than 1,800 people in Northern Minnesota will have access to a public concert and community engagement activities with professional artists. VocalEssence will conduct a full evaluation of the tour to assess this outcome. Methods of data collection to evaluate this outcome will include observation, interviews, and surveys. 2: Professional artists Don Shelby and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers will have the opportunity to tour to four communities in Northern Minnesota. VocalEssence will conduct a full evaluation of the tour to assess this outcome. Methods of data collection to evaluate this outcome will include observation, interviews, and surveys.
In January-May 2016, 2,708 people in Northern Minnesota had access to a public concert and community engagement activities with professional artists. In order to evaluate tour efforts in planning quality outreach activities and concerts, VocalEssence and UpFront Consulting, Saint Joseph Minnesota, used a series of audience, workshop, activities director, venue manager, choir director, and Ensemble Signer surveys, as well as statistical tracking, to gain insight into impact on primary audiences. The data collection instruments were designed and administered by VocalEssence and UpFront Consulting performed the data analysis and final report. 2: Professional artists Don Shelby, Sara Pajunen, and twelve of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers toured to four new communities in northern Minnesota. In order to evaluate tour efforts in planning quality outreach activities and concerts, VocalEssence and UpFront Consulting, Saint Joseph Minnesota, used a series of audience, workshop, activities director, venue manager, choir director, and Ensemble Signer surveys, as well as statistical tracking, to gain insight into impact on primary audiences. The data collection instruments were designed and administered by VocalEssence and UpFront Consulting performed the data analysis and final report.
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