Community Arts
Community Arts
Folk Will Save Us: A podcast and multimedia project highlighting folk art and identity.
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.
Abby Frank Taylor: General Administration, Artistic, Audience Development / Marketing; Betsy Mowry Voss: General Management / Administration, Youth Programming, Community Service / Development; Jake Anderson: General Administration, Finance, Audience Development / Marketing; Junauda Petrus: Artistic, Community Education, Community Service / Development; Leah Battin: Education, Artistic, General Administration; Mackenzie Catton: Artistic, General Administration, Volunteerism; Prabana Balapuwaduge Mendis: Artistic, Organizational Development, Education; Sarah Borchers: Community Education, Fundraising, Organizational Development; Tikki Brown: General Management / Administration, Organizational Development, Community Service / Development.
ACHF Arts Access
We will interview 5 artists and produce 5 episodes of a podcast. We will release 5 podcast episodes online for the public. Listeners will gain access to previously underrepresented voices in the field of folk art, and as a result will gain new understanding about the power of folk art in transforming society (tracked by listener interviews). 5 Folk artists working in ethnic/cultural traditions will reach new audiences and gain visibility for their work (tracked by listener and audience metrics). We will reach out to audience members for one-on-one evaluation interviews after this initial pilot of the project. We will track which content receives the most attention and analyze these results to determine what influences listenership as we work to build an audience.
We interviewed six artists about their practice of social transformation through traditional art in regards to conceptions of race, ethnicity, and history. We recorded and produced these conversations to produce episodes of a podcast and shared them through a release event and through social media, in ways that prompted conversations about folk art that audiences previously did not have access to.