Community Arts

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
July 2017
End Date
August 2017
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Ramsey
Ramsey
Project Overview

Community Arts

Project Details

Liberty Plaza 2017 Summer Youth Arts Camp- Mythic Monsters and Superheroes. Funding for Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation to renew its partnership with BareBones Productions to provide children from low-income families in St Paul with a free, ten-day, multidisciplinary creative arts camp experience. This year's theme, Mythic Monsters and Superheroes, will engage the children in exploring cultural/historical monsters and heroes, then making large-scale puppets. The camp will operate at Liberty Plaza in St Paul from July - August 2017 with a final performance on the last day.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Zhen Zou: Education, general management, artistic; Emmy Carter: Fundraising, education, artistic; Kevin Vollmers: Fundraising, audience development, organizational development; Liane Olson: Administration, fundraising, community education; Marjorie Fedyszyn: Artistic, education, volunteerism; Colleen Zuro-White: General administration, organizational development, volunteerism; Tisidra Jones: Artistic, administration; Tiffany Kong: Computer systems, administration, organizational development; Nicole Matter: Administration.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$3,735
Direct expenses
$8,735
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Enrollment and regular attendance are indicators of success for the Summer Arts Camp; thus, the Summer Arts Camp will achieve its enrollment capacity of Fifty (50) children, and, overall, the camp will have an average attendance rate of at least 75%. Every enrolled child with regular (at least 50%) attendance will be exposed to and engage in all of the following creative arts disciplines over the two week period: visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture), theater arts (acting, set design and fabrication, story creation, costume design and fabrication, dance), and music (rhythm and melody making). We will use participant enrollment and attendance data to measure the overall camp enrollment and the average attendance rate. We will use a combination of a photographic/video record and a brief orally administered survey of participants to document the immediate effects arts camp activities have on participants.

Measurable Outcome(s)

1) The attendance rate was 79%, exceeding the projected rate of 75%. 2) Camp enrollment lower than projected at 26. However, each child had more opportunities to participate and received more individual support and coaching. 3) A documentary filmmaking crew filmed the last three days of the arts camp; this material will serve as an even better photographic record than we originally hoped for.

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Charles Gardner, Harry Melander, Judy Karon, Hugh Cameron, Laura Hansen, Ranell Hamm, David Lindsay
Project Manager
First Name
David
Last Name
Browne
Organization Name
Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation
Street Address
400 Selby Ave Ste C
City
St Paul
State
MN
Zip Code
55102
Phone
(651) 292-0211
Email
dbrowne@tchdc.org
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

PO Box 14106
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 

Phone
Project Manager: Kathy Mouacheupao
651-645-0402
Email the Agency