Equipment/Facilities Improvement
Equipment/Facilities Improvement
Improvement of PAC Facilities.
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor, director, teacher; Marilee Strom: musician, former art teacher, business owner; Kathy Fransen: musician, theatre, Rhythm of the River coordinator; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Pam Blake: retired art educator, visual artist, Tyler Arts Council, Lincoln County Art Fair, Southwest Minnesota Weaver's Guild; Michele Knife Sterner: theatre actor, SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Tom Wirt: artist, owner Clay Coyote Gallery, Hutchinson Center for the Arts, past member Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; 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; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County; Brett Lehman: Worthington International Festival, 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.
Mark Brodin: theatre; Maureen Keimig: theatre; Brett Lehman: music, SMAC Board; Janet Olney: visual art, arts admin, SMAC Board; Erica Volkir: theatre, dance, arts admin, SMAC Board; Mark Wilmes: theatre, music.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
The goals of our project are to improve our bathroom facilities and the landing area leading to them so that they can become cleaner, healthier, more pleasant spaces for our performers and our audiences. There is reason to believe that some have stopped involvement at the theatre or stopped coming to performances because the bathroom situation is unseemly. We would like to remove this barrier to their participation in and enjoyment of the arts. The difference will be obvious as soon as performers come for the first rehearsal. They will be delighted at the differences. Once the bathrooms are complete, we can highlight the improved facilities on our website, inviting people to come and enjoy the Prairie Arts Center again.
We have vastly improved our bathroom facilities and the landing area leading to those bathrooms. They are attractive, easy to clean, and mold-less healthier spaces for our cast and crew and audiences. Any spider who wanders in now finds a bright clean wall - not so easy to lurk there anymore - and is easily removed so our people feel good about using them. Our survey overall showed our bathrooms previously had been in very poor condition and now they rate good to excellent. There were comments that the improvement definitely made it more likely that people would want to return to either participate in or attend a future production.
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