Community Arts
Community Arts
WEAVING COMMUNITY: HAMLINE-MIDWAY FENCEWEAVING PROJECT Funding for a Community-Weave Weekend, a community arts event that involves children in its design, a team of teens as event co-leaders, and weaving participation from local community groups and at least 100 neighbors. The Community-Weave Weekend will be held in May 2017 at Hamline Elementary School in St Paul.
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.
Robert Cuerden: Audience development, marketing, fundraising, organizational, development, planning; Janet Fried: Artistic, education; Laura Krider: General management, administration, artistic; Vong Lee: Artistic, youth programming, community service, development; Anna Min: Audience development, marketing, organizational development; Noel Nix: Community service, development, general administration, organizational development; Nasibu Sareva: General administration, fundraising, community service, development; Joyce Strand: Youth programming; Joko Sutrisno: Artistic, education, audience development, marketing, general administration.
ACHF Arts Access
Guided by artist Denise Tennen and her trained teen team leaders, engage at least 100 community members to participate in creating a fence weaving along Snelling Avenue during the first weekend in October. The design of the fence weaving, based on the artwork of 4th and 5th grade students, will result in a bold, colorful and eye-pleasing artwork on the fence. We will evaluate the project based on both the number of participants in our project as well as the number of different communities in our neighborhood they belong to: this will be tracked at project check-in during the participant weaving days. We will also solicit feedback from our teens regarding the teen training program as well as from our advisory committee regarding the overall project outcomes: these will be two separate feedback events, scheduled within two weeks after the completion of the weaving.
Team teen leaders transformed from a group of shy strangers into a dedicated team who worked through rain and shine and were key to the successful realization of our project. Our fenceweaving transformed a drab stretch of Snelling into a delightful environment. Project partners came together to see this project to its successful completion through thick and thin.
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