Community Arts
Community Arts
The 25th Annual Eagan Art Festival.
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute Program Director; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Donna Saul Millen: TPT-Twin Cities PBS Events Director; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney.
Arneshia Williams: Artistic, Organizational Development, Education; Brittany Kallman Arneson: Artistic, Education, Youth Programming; Carolyn Phelps: General Management / Administration, Audience Development / Marketing, Fundraising; Dee Baskin: Community Education, Volunteerism, Audience Development / Marketing; Jeff Ambroz: Artistic, Fundraising, General Administration; Mary Richardson: Artistic, Computer Systems / Web Design; Maja Weidmann: General Administration; Tiffany Xiong: Fundraising, Community Education; Yumi Inomata: General Management / Administration, Volunteerism, Education.
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We hope to see attendance to the event increase this year from 13,000 to just under 14,000. We hope to have at least 800 children again working on a project and over 1000 people participate by watching demonstrations or working on the community art project in the art experience area. We also hope to see a greater ridership through our partnership with South Metro Transit. The Festival tracks attendance hourly with clickers and conducts an on-site survey. Artists, sponsors, and vendors also fill out a survey. (Response rate 80%) The data is utilized for the next festival, and provides information to our project partners. In July/August the board reviews the director’s report and discusses successes and needed improvements. Information comes from sources such as colleagues, emails, follow-up letters, Facebook, artist letters and volunteers. The festival has used this data to adjust artist booth space needs, marketing tactics and compensation for artist awards. A successful festival includes increasing attendance and engagement with the interactive art projects, positive artist and community feedback through surveys, and social media.
Our audience was around 6000 this year. We had an intense storm on Sunday morning and another one around one so we had to close early - we were on track to meet our 13,000 goal. We had over 400 kids projects and around 300 adult art experiences. 98% of artist evaluations were very positive. They appreciated the care we took to help them durning the storm. The project was successful.
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