Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Deep Valley Book Festival
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2022
End Date
February 2023
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Steele
St. Louis
Waseca
Watonwan
Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Dakota
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Steele
St. Louis
Waseca
Watonwan
Project Overview

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 1

Project Details

The Deep Valley Book Festival will expand its audience in the southern Minnesota region by offering high quality literary arts experiences during the 2022 festival, namely through the presence of keynote speaker Curtis Sittenfeld.

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
$12,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$12,000
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The Deep Valley Book Festival will expand its audience in southern Minnesota by offering high-quality literary arts experiences. The festival committee will conduct a survey of authors and attendees, during the festival and later through email, to gauge the effectiveness of the festival.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Minnesota residents and communities will maintain access and connection to the arts. We sent surveys to attendees and authors. We also received email comments.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
Achieved proposed outcomes.
Recipient Board Members
Julie Schrader, Rachael Hanel, Joy Riggs, Kiersten Hall, Nadia Giordana, Sandi Garlow, Jennifer Jensen
Project Manager
First Name
Rachael
Last Name
Hanel
Organization Name
Deep Valley Book Festival
Street Address
2100 Rolling Green Ln
City
North Mankato
State
MN
Zip Code
56003
Phone
(507) 340-4594
Email
rhanel@hickorytech.net
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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