Community Arts

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,000

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Three Rivers Park District

Recipient Type

Local/Regional Government

Status

Completed

Start Date

May 2012

End Date

September 2012

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Ramsey

Project Overview

The Silverwood Park Summer Performance Series

Project Details

Funding for The Silverwood Park Summer Performance Series of ten free concerts. The concerts will take place at the Silverwood Park outdoor amphitheater between May and August 2012.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Ginny Jacobson: Teacher, Musikgarten; Suzi McArdle: The Park Theatre Company; Betsy Mowry: Program Manager of Youth Projects, Juxtaposition Arts; Michele Hammel: President, Perimeter Productions; Andrea Dittmer: Choir Manager, Angelica Cantanti; Craig Harris: Managing Director, Playwrights Center; Nirmala Rajasekar: Musician; Heather Rutledge: Executive Director, ArtReach Saint Croix.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$5,000

Other Funds Leveraged

$3,175

Direct expenses

$8,175

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

To offer park users and area residents the opportunity to enjoy music in a beautiful outdoor space; to use the arts as a vehicle to explore environmental and natural concepts; to promote other opportunities to explore the arts through Silverwood's art education program; to offer performers an opportunity to express their creativity in a unique and inspirational outdoor space.Informal discussions with concert attendees; attendance; follow-up conversations with performance groups; collection of post-performance feedback on Silverwood Park's Facebook page.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Audiences were captivated by the marriage of music and the beautiful natural surroundings of the park.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Sara Wyatt, Marilynn Corcoran, Joan Peters, Dale Woodbeck, John Gibbs, Larry Blackstad, Barbara Derus Kinsey

Project Manager

Thomas

Moffatt

Three Rivers Park District

2500 County Rd E W