Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage

Our goals are two-fold: to introduce and educate about art forms not commonly seen in our region and to broaden our audience base by attracting area residents who normally do not attend Center events. The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra will attract music lovers who normally would travel to metropolitan areas to listen to experimental music. For the proposed outreach activities, our goals are to educate children about theater and music and to provide them with tools that engage art and physical exercise as well as to introduce them to the environment of a gallery. For our area seniors, our goals are perhaps more simple: to brighten their day. The Center relies on audience surveys for public performances and tailors each survey for the specific event. Many of these questions concern the audience's perception of the quality of the artwork. We also ask the performance group to contribute specific questions as a form of feedback for them. Perhaps because of our intimate performance space, one which prompts a good bit of socializing, often around a refreshment table, our survey return rate is fairly high. In addition, the use of informal conversations initiated by staff with audience members during intermission and after performances, yield useful data. For outreach at the care centers and senior center, the Center will speak informally with administrators after each workshop.