Community Arts
Community Arts
Puppetworks Commission Project Funding for a contemporary puppet theater production, offering artists of color and native artists the opportunity to create a short puppet performance, and to gain skills in contemporary puppet theater production and artistry. The project will culminate in the presentation of new works in June 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.
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Greg Nielsen (651) 645-0402
ACHF Arts Access
Outcome is that artists of color/native artists having learned skills and artistry in performance and construction and storytelling in contemporary puppet theater, but also the expressed desire among some of the participants to continue to create shows after this project, or the desire to participate in work by other puppet theaters/companies. We will evaluate outcomes by doing interviews and formal surveys with participants and master puppeteers and surveys for the audience at the show, to see how the stories affected them and what they thought of the quality and content of the performances. We seek to learn from our participants, master puppeteers and audience in order to improve upon our project in the future, if in the evaluation process, we find that we are not meeting our stated goals.
3 participants using final show as work sample, got Puppet Lab grant from Heart of the Beast. 4 participants got freelance employment opportunities from people seeing them perform in the final show. 100% of the participants said they learned a lot about all the different aspects of creating a puppet theater piece. Five of the participants are creating new pieces. We had over 200 audience members.
Other, local or private