Community Arts Learning Grant
Community Arts Learning Grant
CHOICE, unlimited ARTS Program Film Class. The class will introduce the art of video/ short film.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
Moira Villiard: visual artist and Cultural Program Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Richard Hansen: Executive Director, Duluth Superior Film Festival; David Dobbs: visual artist, Education Coordinator at MacRostie Art Center; Christine Marcotte: writer and community historian, retired socialworker.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
This project will provide an opportunity for adults with disabilities to engage in artistic endeavors, cultivating skills and recognizing talent. The proposed project will achieve both an acquisition of skill in the medium of short film, while increasing opportunities that are accessible to artists with disabilities. This project will open avenues for self-discovery and self-confidence, creating tools that will encourage participation in an inclusive community. Students may gain an opportunity to identify as artists and embrace how that can impact day to day self-esteem, self-reliance and pride in vocational, social and interpersonal realms are also overreaching goals. Success will be determined by if set goals were met and what challenges were encountered. In addition, evaluation tools will include surveys to be distributed to arts learners prior to and following the session to assess what goals were met and what skills and information were learned. Open group discussions and one-on-one meetings with arts learners and their support team will assess achievement. Success will also be determined by the numbers of participants that are interested in and attended classes, as well as the number of community members that attend the showing of the final project film.
CHOICE, unlimited held a workshop-style class in video/ film art. Many of the participating students had very little experience in this genre of art and would be involved in first-time experiences. • The class learned about storytelling through the moving image. Students served as actors, directors, writers and editors alongside Toby Churchill, the instructor. • There were 32 two hour classes or scheduled filming and editing time with the arts learners. Classes took place once a week. • Classes were held in fall of 2017-spring of 2018. • The final project is a series of short films that will be shown at Zeitgeist Arts Center-Zinema Theatre, a local venue that will be well advertised and attended by the community. • The films are available to view online and will be submitted to local and national short-film festivals, including the Sprout Film Festival and Reel Abilities- national touring film festivals that focus on film by and for people living with developmental disabilities.
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