Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Equipment and Facilities Improvement
Replace heating and cooling systems.
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor, director, teacher; Anna Johanssen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women’s Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Michele Knife Sterner: theater actor, Southwest Minnesota State University Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Lisa Hill: musician, Crow River Singers, attorney; Joyce Aakre: visual arts, writing, Discover Dassel committee, Board member for Litchfield Community Education, Exhibit committee for Dassel Area Historical Society; Emily Petersen: visual artist, art teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician; Anne O’Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Scott Wessels: theater actor, director, writing, media, communications, board member for Green Earth Players; Brett Lehman: musician, social worker, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Director of Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Luanne Fondell: arts administration; JoAnne Fraunfelder: arts administration; Maureen Keimig: theater; Brett Lehman: music, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board; Paula Nemes: theater, music; Michele Knife Sterner: theater, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board; Louella Voigt: arts administration; Tom Wirt: visual art, arts administration.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
The Arts Center’s goal for this project is to overcome barriers to accessing high quality art activities created by antiquated, inefficient, and unbalanced heating and cooling systems, and an antiquated and inefficient hot water heater. As a result of past building modifications, the floor vents for the heating system are poorly placed for the Arts Center’s current use. There is only one heating vent in the floor of the classroom area at the back of the building, and a space heater is needed on cold days. On some days vents in the performance area are closed off to get more heat into the classroom space. No heating vent or air conditioning vent reaches the Arts Center’s handicapped bathroom. A new air heating/conditioning system will be installed, with redesigned, better balanced, ductwork. When air conditioning ductwork no longer cuts through the building’s roof and through the ceiling of the gallery space and roof repairs are complete, the last known bvn source of water leaking into the front area of our gallery space will be sealed off. It will be safe to display artwork in the Arts Center’s gallery window well area during the summer rainy season. Once these outdated systems have been replaced and a new, better balanced floor venting system is installed, heating and cooling will be consistent and comfortable throughout the arts center’s building. It will no longer be necessary to close heat vents in the performance area, chilling temperatures there, in order to get more heat to the classroom space. Students in the Arts Center’s classroom space will be more comfortable, and better able to create their artworks. We hope that gallery visitors and volunteers, concert attendees, art class students, Jam Session and Open Studio attendees, and artists exhibiting their work will feel more comfortable, and be more likely to participate frequently in Arts Center activities. The project will be complete when the new heating and cooling system, the electric water heater, and a redesigned ductwork system have been installed; old equipment removed; and the roof and gallery room ceiling have been repaired. Board members and volunteers will talk about the results of the project with artists exhibiting their work, people visiting the gallery and attending art classes, musicians attending jam sessions and performing for concerts, artists participating in open studios, and crafters at SPOTS sessions, in order to gather feedback orally.
The Jackson Center for the Arts now enjoys an up to date, energy efficient heating and cooling system, with redesigned and better balanced ductwork and floor vents. Temperatures are comfortable and consistent throughout our building, and we hope that winter heating and summer cooling expenses will be reduced. People attending concerts, jam sessions, classes, and other activities at the Arts Center will now attend these activities in a comfortably cooled and heated environment throughout the year. When the out of date air conditioning equipment was removed from the roof and the roof repaired, the Arts Center's last source of water leakage into the gallery space window well area was removed. Art work can safely be displayed in the window well area at all times. Hot water is available at all times to the classroom sink and the handicapped accessible bathroom.
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