Flexible Support
Flexible Support
Investment in multi-disciplinary artistic team
Cristeta Boarini: 826 MSP Program Director; Robyn Cline: City of Savage Economic Development Commissioner; Amanda Cortes: Artspace and Springboard for the Arts; Paul Creager: Square Lake Film and Music Festival Founder and Director; Adrienne Doyle: Juxtaposition Arts Tactical Lead and Development Associate; Craig Dunn: Access Consultant; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Interdisciplinary Artist and Sparkle Theatricals Creative Creative Director; Ryan-Olivia McCoy: Black Label Movement and Shapeshift dancer; Christal Moose: Native Arts Collaborative Agency and Native Pride Productions, Inc. Arts Manager and Artist; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Alejandra Pelinka: City of Bloomington Director of Creative Placemaking; Tommy Sar: Independent Consultant; Andrea Sjogren: Community Education; Lue Vang: McKnight Foundation Accountant; Sara Wilson: Lommen Abdo P.A. Attorney; Kate Walker: Valley Chamber Chorale Singer; Lauren White: Augsburg College Assistant Director of Leadership Gifts.
Bethany Gladhill, General Administration, Finance, Organizational Development; Chandler Daily, Organizational Development, Artistic, General Administration; Julia Brown, General Administration, Artistic, Education; Marco Real-d'Arbelles, Artistic, General Management/ Administration/ Support, Program Development; martha bird, Accessibility/Disability Access, Artistic, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion; Ni'Kol Imani Dowls, Artistic, Finance, General Administration.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Residents build connections to their own and others' cultural heritage through events and/or activities; MN folk and traditional artists/audiences are expanded; MN folk and traditional artists see an increase in demand for work. Interviews/Conversations with participants ; Community dialogue (group conversations with a large group) ; Surveying (paper or online)
Though the actual projects we completed shifted a little-i.e. we did not do public safety story circles or complete our civic engagement podcast--we were able to do the other projects listed and and also another project where we invested in a much larger multi-disciplinary artistic team to commission plays from 15 playwrights and hire 17 actors and musicians to perform them live for an audience that wasn't able to see live theater for at least a year. We were able to provide employment for more artists than we initially proposed and reach a larger audience live and through web videos and virtual performances and workshops (virtual and masked/live) than we originally proposed. We also sold 500 copies of our graphic novel adaptation of our play about adoption. We were also able to evaluate these activities through all the methods described and discover that our goals to reach across isolation and fear created by the pandemic were wildly and significantly successful.