Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,240

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Mara Morken Fogarty

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

May 2015

End Date

August 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Clay

Becker

Wilkin

Project Overview

Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage

Project Details

To create a "Sticks Garden" which is intended as an outdoor public arts space and garden, in Moorhead’s existing arts district-- across the street from the Rourke Art Museum and along one of our cities most traversed roads.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Jeannie Pederson: Pope County Family Collaborative Coordinator; Stan Goldade: High School math instructor, photographer, ceramicist, sculptor; Don Clark: Professor at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, photographer; Kari Kjesbo: former gallery manager and catering business owner; Mark Ryan: Plain Arts Museum Director of Collections and Operations; Carolyn Flieder: fiber artist, former quilt shop owner; Eric Abrahamson: Former stage manager, Historic Holmes Theatre and Board member Playhouse 412; Beth Salvatore: Publishing, graphic arts, humanities and music; AmyAnn Mursu: musician including piano, clarinet, tuba, and violin; Jim Arvidson: Graduate of the Regional Leadership Institute, community service volunteer; Minette Stalheim Johnson: Lay minister with degrees in Theology and English; Michael Eble: Professor and gallery curator at University of Minnesota-Morris, drawing and painting; Erin Gunderson: Library Branch Manager in Breckenridge, musician and artist; Nancy Berns: Former Lake Region Arts Council Board member, radio voice actor, costumer, vocal director, choral singer.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Conflict of Interest Contact

Lake Region Arts Council, Maxine Adams (218) 739-5780

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$4,240

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,250

Direct expenses

$5,490

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

1. To create a public sculpture garden in downtown Moorhead. 2. To give our communities residents and visitors easily access public art. 3. To inspire Moorhead civic leaders to invest time and resources into art. 4. To inspire other artists to create in public. 1. To create a public sculpture garden in downtown Moorhead. 2. To give our communities residents and visitors easily access public art. 3. To inspire Moorhead civic leaders to invest time and resources into art. 4. To inspire other artists to create in public.

Measurable Outcome(s)

1. Feedback from the community as a whole. *I have received exclusively positive comments in person, via email and through social media coverage. 2. Feedback from Moorhead's civic leaders. *The project has been supported via media by a number of civic leaders including Moorhead's Mayor, Moorhead City Council members and local businesses. 3. Feedback from local arts organizations via their public forums. *Sticksgarden had exclusively positive coverage from local media and arts organizations, including KFGO, KVRR, the Forum, High Plains Reader, Arts Partnership and social media coverage from the Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Mara

Morken Fogarty

Mara Morken Fogarty

(917) 701-9404

maramorken@yahoo.com

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