Folk and Traditional Arts

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$74,186

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Dakota Wicohan

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

Completed

Start Date

January 2016

End Date

December 2016

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Redwood

Renville

Yellow Medicine

Project Overview

Folk and Traditional Arts

Project Details

Tawokaga, a Dakota community apprenticeship project, will engage three tiers of artists (master, assistant, and apprentice) with one hundred community members to transmit three traditional yet endangered Dakota art forms: braintanning, quilling, and quilt

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Jewell Arcoren: Community resources coordinator of Healing Place Collaborative; Rhonda Dass: Associate professor of anthropology and director of museum studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mary Erickson: Fiber artist, museum exhibit researcher; Stanley Maroushek: Owner, Slim's Woodshed and Museum; Linda McShannock: Curator of textiles and clothing collection, Minnesota Historical Society; Scott Pollock: Director of exhibitions, collections and programs, American Swedish Institute

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2016 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Cultural Heritage

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$74,186

Other Funds Leveraged

$10,622

Direct expenses

$84,808

Administration costs

$3,793

Number of full time equivalents funded

0.5

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

19 Dakota artists develop and deepen their artistic skills in at least one of three art forms--tanning, quilling, and quilting--through one of three tiers of engagement--master, assistant, or apprentice. The master artists will assess the assistants' and the apprentices’ progress according to artistic benchmarks agreed upon for each. Dakota Wicohan will host three focus groups to gauge significance of all artists' experiences. 2: 100 Minnesotans will increase their awareness of and engagement in Dakota traditional arts through a community arts exhibit. We will track the number of participants at our family-friendly arts workshop with hands-on arts learning activities and at our Dakota fall art exhibit. Audiences can share feedback in logs at both.

Measurable Outcome(s)

During thus year-long apprenticeship program four master artists did teach over 80 hours to four assistants and twenty-one apprentice artists. We held three focus groups. 2: Attendance at the three art events combined was over 140 people. Our website, Facebook page, and monthly newsletter reached over 800 people. Counts of e-newsletter subscriptions, views on our website and Facebook page, and attendance at the three events.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Gabrielle Strong, Darin Minkel, Mary Peters, Winona Goodthunder, Evelyn Tsinnijinnie

Project Manager

Nora

Murphy

Dakota Wicohan

PO Box 2

Morton

56270