Equipment and Facilities
Equipment and Facilities
Sound and Lighting improvement
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
Our goals are to improve the lighting, to make it safer, easier to use and teach, power efficient and up to date with industry trends. We also want to improve the sound to enable upstairs patrons to better hear, and to prevent feedback, this aligns with our long term goals of having in-ear audio for hard of hearing patrons. Switching to all LED will simplify teaching lighting to new people, but also excite younger people about lighting design. Because we can now easily and quickly pick colors from the booth, e can let people "play" with lights and instantaneously see the results. By also getting the feedback suppression system, we are able to make it easier for newcomers to run sound, and not having to worry about audio feedback, helping to build confidence. We will look for reduction in electricity bills, reduction in replacement bulbs, gel inventory, a reduction in time to design and create sound and lighting for shows. We will also look for increased safety, by reducing the manual labor involved with older lights and more involvement new and younger participants with lighting and sound. We will gather information from audience and participant feedback surveys and word of mouth feedback.
The new equipment helps us stay competitive by enhancing what is being done on stage by the actors and musicians. Moving to all LED lights, we are able to be much safer in many areas and put less strain on the existing power grid. We are now able to simpl
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