Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Visual and Mixed Media Display System Installation for Public Exhibition
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; 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; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; 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; 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; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Mark Brodin, theater, film, music; Cheri Buzzeo, theater, SMAC board; Brett Lehman, music; Paula Nemes, theater, music; Janet Olney, visual art, arts admin; Eric Parrish, music, theater; Mark Wilmes, theater, music, SMAC board
ACHF Arts Access
The rail system will allow us to invite visual artists to show their work on a regular basis, minimize installation time and fees, and attract more foot traffic to our door. As we make changes to our space and policies to advocate, accommodate and support artists with disabilities it is our hope that this exhibition will encourage others to show work done by those who are disabled, 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 have not yet had an outlet. Art sales also has potential to become a regular revenue stream for Crow River Players as we act as curator of artist's works and point of contact for the art buyer. We can measure the success of this project by viewers, sales and/or by the increase in the number of artists we have on display as the year progresses.
We have been able to measure the impact of this additional lighting because there is much less time spent setting lights for shows now that the new lights are put in. We have also been able to book higher quality shows that we haven't been able to bring in the past, due to being able to offer the lighting they need. There will be substantial cost savings for the Friends at programmed events at MAPAC because we won't have to rent extra lighting for performances. The less expense involved in performances, the more performances the Friends of the Auditorium will be able to produce at MAPAC. Of course, the more performances, the greater the outreach to more audiences. We verbally surveyed the technical staff from performances who have used the new lighting and they definitely felt that it helped to produce a better visual show and made it much easier to do show prep.