Equipment and Facilities
Equipment and Facilities
Basement Lighting/Electrical upgrade
Cheryl Avenel-Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity council; Judy Beckman: vocal music, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone County Historical Society, Big Stone Lake Area Chamber of Commerce CEO; Maggie Fuller: visual art, writing; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Erin Kline, visual art, music, writing, education, SMSU Diversity and Inclusion; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board; Kylie Rieke: ceramics, murals, music, theater, T-Bird Community Arts Board; Kristine Shelstad: visual arts, Madison Mercantile art gallery, Madison Arts Council, Lac qui Parle Players; VFW; Gillian Singler, MN West Community and Technical College chair of Humanities and English instructor, Creative Healing Space volunteer, writer, theater director; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Mark Wilmes: Tyler Arts Council board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheryl Avenel-Navara, arts admin, SMAC board; Anna Johannsen, visual art, education, SMAC board; Tammy Makram, theatre, arts admin; Paula Nemes, theatre, music; Eric Parrish, music, theatre, education; Sheila Tabaka, theatre, education.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
The goal for this project is simply to update the basement environment so that we can offer more creative spaces to the Jackson community. At this point in time we have one very small space upstairs to be used as a classroom/open studio space, this project will allow us the provide an additional four spaces for creative use, a space for ceramic production, a space ceramic drying and firing and two larger spaces for classroom/ open studios. We plan to measure the impact of this project by monitoring the use of our facility by extending current hours of operation, by increasing staffing for the benefit of artists in the community to use our Classroom/Open Studio area.
The brighter environment made it easy for us to immediately provide working space for a local artist that did not have space to work in his apartment. Improving the lighting system forced us to prioritize the items we had been storing in our facility. Cit