Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
To attract 1,000 attendees to our event with 35 artists, of a variety of disciplines, participating. Our surveys will show that 95% of our attendees will have had a positive experience. We plan to evaluate our event by attendance count at each of our studio locations. We also plan to evaluate our event through a survey attached to our Wander and Win drawing.
We achieved our goal of opening up artists' studios around Carver County and exposing our guests to the creative process that these artist engage. We felt that studio's providing an opportunity to see how the artists' work was created was a positive. Many people are interested in how things are made and the environment in which they are created. I believe the Art Wander has hit on a formula that works, as we are asked yearly to keep up the work. Many people are already asking when next year's event will be held and have attended yearly as they enjoy the encounters with the working artists. We wanted to reach out and engage some new artists with some new medium. We engaged 10 new artists this year as well as adding a fiber artist this year. We increased the diversity of our artists within the different media as well. Another of our intention this year was to reach out with marketing efforts to draw in art supporters/lovers from a wider circle outside of Carver County. We did this with minimal success. Our overall numbers remained the same and our guests came from within Carver County or from the neighboring counties. We estimate that 1000 people attended the Art Wander event visiting one or more of the 17 studios. Guest surveys showed that 98% of respondents enjoyed the event and requested we maintain the event in the years to come.
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