Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,400
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Threads Dance Project AKA Threads
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2022
End Date
February 2023
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Project Details

Threads Dance Project will develop a new organizational structure to support its expanded programming, resulting from the opening of its new home, the Threads Dance Nexus.

Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications

Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Emily Galusha, arts and civic leader, former arts administrator; Anthony Gardner: vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Terrell Beaudry is the founder and president of SOAR Regional Arts based in Saint Michael. In addition to SOAR, Beaudry is the director of choral music at the Anoka Middle School for the Arts, and director of Music at St. Victoria Catholic Church.; Karlyn Berg graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, obtaining a BFA in painting and graduate printmaking studies at Pratt University. She is a working artist using acrylics, printmaking and collage and she teaches art workshops. In 2017 and 2020 and 2021 she was awarded a Minnesota States Arts Board grants and from The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council in 2018 and 2019 and 2021. She is the administrative assistant at the Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork, Minnesota. She also is a ISD 318 Community Education Coordinator, and a volunteer dog scentwork trainer for The Iron Rang Dog Training Club.; Megan Krueger is currently the development manager at Every Meal in Roseville. She has worked at several arts organizations including Steppingstone Theatre and Stages Theatre Company. She graduated with a BA in both English literature and theater from Viterbo University (La Crosse, WI).; Angela McDowell is creator of Alleyway Arts & Herbs, LLC, which promotes scholarship and mindfulness through helping people to the realization of art as omnipresent using creative, nonmedical therapy solutions. Alleyway Teas and merchandise are sold locally in Minnesota. McDowell was student counselor at ECMC, a nonprofit, and taught locally at Folwell Performing Arts Magnet.; Gregory Wilkins works at Minnesota State University Mankato as the associate director of the Centennial Student Union and student activities and is a working artist. He served on the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council for six years, and currently serves an elected two-year term as a curatorial panelist for Minneapolis Institute of Art?s Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program. In 2020, he served as a Poetry Out Loud judge with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. He formerly served as the director?s assistant, external affairs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC).

Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2021, First Special Session, chapter 1, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Education

2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,400
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$23,400
Administration costs
$23,400
Number of full time equivalents funded
1.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

To build a sustainable staffing model to accommodate the current expansion of the threads mission via programming at the new Threads Dance Nexus. Threads will evaluate success by: positive net revenue generated in the new component of their business by Q1 2023; steady increase in enrollment from Fall 2021?Fall 2023; flat or increased funding from 2022 corporate/foundation/individual donors.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Threads was able to maintain grant support for both 2021 and 2022 with staff reorganization. We compared giving from both years to determine success of reorganizing staffing. Due to pandemic constraints, we saw inconsistent enrollment in programs but enrollment goals were met.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
Achieved most of the proposed outcomes
Recipient Board Members
Amanda Norman, Alicia Phillips, William Todd Ackerman, Ella Wiley-McGrady, Traci Shannon, Omarra Alexander, Kenneth Charles, Amanda Thor
Project Manager
First Name
Lucy
Last Name
Beers Shenk
Organization Name
Threads Dance Project AKA Threads
Street Address
2213 Snelling Ave Ste 100
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55404
Phone
(952) 250-5965
Email
lshenk@threadsdance.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
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