Community Arts
Community Arts
Funding for five street performances and the use of technology to enhance a self-guided tour of public art on Hopkins Artstreet. Activities will take place in summer and fall 2013.
Julie Andersen: Executive Director of Eagan Art House; Jill Anfang: Program Director at Roseville Parks and Recreation; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Libraries Director; Bethany Brunsell: music teacher and performer; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board Member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Paul Creager: Saint Paul Public Schools Administrator, Square Lake Film Festival Director; Erika Eklund: HGA Architects; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Executive Director; Mary Erickson: Independent School District 112 Community Education; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake Savage Community Education; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation; Margaret Rog: consultant, grant writer; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Rachel Smoka: Children's Theatre Company Development Officer; Beth Starbuck: vocal performer; Dameun Strange: composer, performer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law.
Debra Stone: artistic, education, community service; Janet Grove: administration, artistic, education; Julie Guidry: disabilities specialist, community education, organizational development; Patty Richardson: administration; Laura Narhi: fundraising, administration; Megan Hadley: administration, artistic, finance; Peter Stein: artistic, organizational development, administration; Joyce Nelson Shellhart: artistic; Angela Hedlund: administration.
ACHF Arts Access
To engage, educate and connect with viewers of public visual arts through the addition of a technology-based learning component; to expand the concept of public art to include performance art, adding energy to the streetscape, expanding the pool of artists and audiences involved and making a variety of art experiences easily accessible to the community; to seek out art forms and artists that together create a more inclusive picture of the cultural diversity and identity of Hopkins.Attendance at performance events; increase in ballots cast; comments received; tracking numbers of Quick Response codes.
Increased interaction with the Artstreet sculptures was noticed; The QR codes were effective in bringing the sculptural work to life through the artist's reflections on the piece; Farmer's Market vendors indicated that the performance art added value to the Market experience; We gained organizational capacity.
Other, local or private