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Awesome Arts! - 2011

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,300
Project of
Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative Legacy Grant SFY 2010 - SFY 2011
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Status
Completed
Activity Type
Education/Outreach/Engagement
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Blue Earth
Brown
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Blue Earth
Brown
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Project Overview

Awesome Arts! A two hour art-making program for children and their caregivers which will tour the Traverse des Sioux Library System and be led by artist/instructors from Southern Minnesota. The program features different art activities focusing on a specific element of art designed to encourage artistic expression and develop critical thinking skills.

Project Details
  • Event Dates, Locations and Attendance at each individual event: 47 tour stops, 32 funded with Legacy funds, with a total attendance of 1472.  See Awesome Arts Tour Schedule and Impact Survey for more detail.
  • Partner Organization(s):  Area Art Instructors, Area Early Learning Educators, Community Education 1and Recreation, Envision, Mankato School of Arts, Prairie Lakes Regional Art Council
  • Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program:
  • Partners Financial Support: $1,800.00
  • In-Kind Support: $2,050.00
Details/Reports
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,300
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, pre-test/post-test, observations; Describe proposed end user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status.

  • Awesome Arts! will enrich the lives of families by forming and deepening a life-long connection to the arts and artistic expression, by showing parents easy ways to engage their children in arts/artistic expression, by increasing artistic vocabulary, and by creating a space for families to gather and engage together in creative expression. 
  • The program will also develop the following skills:  problem solving, fine motor, visual perception, hand-eye coordination, tactile impressions, social and emotional.
Measurable Outcome(s)

See attached Impact Survey listed in Details/Reports

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