Community Arts
Community Arts
Midtown Farmers Market Cultural Arts Programming Funding to support 52 performing arts activities to take place during the Midtown Farmers Market's Saturday markets, with a focus on increasing racial and cultural diversity to better reflect the surrounding communities. Performances will take place over 26 weeks between May and October 2017.
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.
Denise Prosek: Artistic, administration; Jeanne Morales: Finance, artistic, fundraising; Edie Abnet: Artistic; Jessie Roelofs: Education; Liz Lassiter: Youth programming, artistic, community education; Brittany Lynch: Artistic, organizational development, community service; Maja Wheeler: Artistic, general administration; Mike Alberti: Artistic, education, finance; Tom Loftus: General administration, audience development, artistic.
ACHF Arts Access
We seek to hire and pay 52 diverse, local musicians to play of a variety of musical genres, including jazz, bluegrass, folk, blues, traditional cultural music, and more at the Saturday market of the Midtown Farmers Market for two hours of musical programming per performance. These musicians will reflect the diverse cultural communities of South Minneapolis. Through the hiring of diverse musicians, we will actively engage those cultural communities ensure that all residents feel welcome at the market, as a result of both relevant products and vendors, and programming and entertainment specifically related to this grant opportunity. Additionally, through our matching funds, we will hire and pay additional artists such as dancers, visual artists, etc. to perform in addition to and complimentary of the musicians at the Market. Market staff will measure the success of our goals and efforts by evaluating the number of musicians and artists who performed at the Market from various cultural backgrounds along with their genre, market attendance on days where specific artists were recruited to perform and surveying our customers and vendors about the regular, inclusive, diverse music schedule.
The market hosted 52 live music, poetry, and dance performances, featuring over 100 artists from genres and cultural backgrounds reflective of the diversity of our surrounding community. This project provided more than $10,000 in stipends for local artists and access to over 100 hours of free and inclusive arts and cultural programming to 56,000 of our neighbors in South Minneapolis.
Other, local or private