Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Big Candle on the Prairie: Purchase Head Lights
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; 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; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; 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; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Michele Huggins: Granite Area Arts Council treasurer and volunteer, member of the Artisan Grain Collaborative, founding member of ACHALA; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Janine Teske: music, theater, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school board; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Luanne Fondell, performing arts admin; Darlene Kotelnicki, theater, SMAC board; Steve Linstrom, writing, nonprofits; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson, visual art, SMAC board; Sheila Tabaka, theater, education; Michael Van Keulen, theater, education
ACHF Arts Access
We hope to reduce setup and adjustment time by another 10% as our light technician becomes more familiar with programming and creating macros for multistep light commands. Reducing time is important to keeping skilled volunteers coming back year after year. With the new equipment, adjustments can be made easily without the use of a rigger walking the truss in the dark or bringing in a boom truck. The light technician also sees more innovative uses for these lights, with the ease of changing size, direction and color allowing for a more artistic approach. He will be able to experiment, converse with consultants, trouble shoot and share the added lighting capability. The splitter will allow for more direct connections and less potential for a cascading failure due to a ?weak link?. We will fill out a time log of activity during the season to determine the effects on setup time. We will collect anecdotal information from the stage direct and lighting technician about the ability to turn director's lighting requests into visual display and satisfaction with the equipment. We will also collect comments by cast, crew and audience on lighting use via Survey Monkey.
This exhibition convinced viewers that visual art shows could happen here and could be done well. Many commented that there has never been an art exhibition at the theater. Three visual artists asked for information on how they could exhibit their work. In the three months that the artwork was displayed people started spending more time in the lobby. This is brought up to us by volunteers who noticed they had to clear the lobby tables after every event when before the space was just a pass thru from the entry to the auditorium. The Theatre saw at least 100 visitors between the opening event and the weekend Studio Hop event. The artists sold six pieces resulting in over $400 in sales. We have our next artist exhibition booked for November through January. We are on track to establishing our space and policies to advocate, accommodate and support visual artists, encourage others to show their work, instill a deeper appreciation of art-making and its role in individual and community wellbeing, and plant a seed of possibility for artists who want to show their work in New London but until now have not had an outlet.
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