Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,495
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Northfield Arts Guild
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
May 2022
End Date
April 2023
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Dakota
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Rice
Scott
Dakota
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Rice
Scott
Project Overview

Creative Support for Organizations-Round 2

Project Details

The Northfield Arts Guild will work toward reconnecting with the community and returning participation to prepandemic levels while building new audiences through quality education and engagement, as well as theater, music, and gallery shows.

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

Claudia Dreyer: Dreyer is a high school ceramics teacher with Rochester Public Schools. This upcoming school year will make her 26th year of teaching. Beside Rochester, she also taught in Stewartville, MN as well as two different school districts in Texas. Over the 26 years, she has taught all levels from preschool to twelfth grade, she has headed up art show committees, sought out judges for juried shows, and has helped multiple students with portfolios. Dreyer has coached many academic teams, as well as, cheerleading, dance, and sports. She has volunteered her time with Mothers of Preschoolers, creating art/craft shows, and coaching little league. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington majoring in studio art, and received her master?s plus 30 in education.; Catherine Friend: Friend is the author of fifteen published books, including children's books, memoir, nonfiction, and genre novels. She has been awarded a Loft/McKnight Artist Fellowship in children's literature, and in 2009 she won the Minnesota Book Award in the general nonfiction category for The Compassionate Carnivore. She has edited, taught writing, conducted writing camps for children, and served on Arts Board panels in the past. She has bachelors? degrees in economics and Spanish, and a master's degree in applied economics.; Keren Gudeman: Gudeman is the founder and director of Improv Parenting, a small arts nonprofit focused on bringing improv and creativity to families. She is a business manager for Danger Boat Productions/Theater of Public Policy, a theater company providing entertainment and facilitation through improv. She holds an MA in psychology from University of Chicago and a BA in anthropology from Harvard University.; Elizabeth Henrich: Henrich is an AmeriCorps VISTA member serving at Urban Boatbuilders, where she manages graphic design projects and facilitates digital community space. Henrich previously interned at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in curation and the Puget Sound Navy Museum in collections. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in communications design and University of Washington with a certificate in museum studies. Henrich was born in Minnesota and has lived in California, Washington, and New York.; Benjamin Moren: Moren is a media artist whose process captures and reframes the environment through filmmaking, performance, sculpture, sound, and custom software systems to reveal and question anthropocentric viewpoints. He?s created site specific projects for Northern Spark Festival in Minneapolis, Kulturpark in Berlin, and the Weisman Art Museum; and exhibited at Soap Factory, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, IndieCade Los Angeles, and the Beijing Film Academy. He is an associate professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the media arts department. He is a three time recipient of the Arts Board?s Artist Initiative grant and is a 2021/22 McKnight Visual Artist Fellow.

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 Access

2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,495
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$24,495
Administration costs
$3,000
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

The Northfield Arts Guild will reconnect with the community and return participation to 2019 levels while focusing on new and existing audiences. The Guild will refresh our community engagement initiatives in ways consistent with community health. We will monitor participation levels and membership levels and look for an increase and change in the predictability of overall participation.

Measurable Outcome(s)

The Guild reconnected with audiences returning to 2019 levels in some programs while focusing on new and existing audiences. The Guild has new community engagement methods and new committees focused on that. Evaluation methods were simply seeing and counting increased numbers in attendance and connection with new and returning audience members.

Proposed Outcomes Achieved
Achieved most of the proposed outcomes
Recipient Board Members
Pepe Kryzda, David McKee, Judy Kutulas, Connie Albers, Susan Carlson, Jane Fenton, Rita Gomez, Rae Horton, Rolf Kragseth, Jane Turpin Moore, Amy Pagel, Noah Schomburg, Fernando Sevilla, Bob Thacker, Katie Warren, Blue Handlang, Jennifer Salinas Santos, Elizabeth Lathrop
Project Manager
First Name
Andrea
Last Name
Sjogren
Organization Name
Northfield Arts Guild
Street Address
304 Division St S
City
Northfield
State
MN
Zip Code
55057-2015
Phone
(507) 645-8877
Email
andrea@northfieldartsguild.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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