Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
To develop an open public space for a multipurpose performing arts space.
Gary Hendrickson: former professor of literature; Nancy Berns: radio voice actor, costumer, vocal director, choral singer; Stan Goldade: High School math instructor, photographer, sculptor; Carolyn Aarsvold: retired elementary music educator, violinist; Kari Kjesbo: former gallery manager and catering business owner; Pagyn Harding: literary artist and publisher author; Jane Gudmundson: retired gallery manager Minnesota State University-Moorhead, artist in residence; Carolyn Flieder: fiber artist, former quilt shop owner; Amy Schmidt: literary and visual artist, bookstore owner; Jimmy Schryver: professor of Art History at University of Minnesota-Morris; Kari Adams: graphic designer, printmaker; Dick DuBord: retired professor of Social Work at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, visual artist-wood; Paul Schoenack: regional actor, director, radio voice actor; Rebecca Mitchell: glass studio owner, community outreach coordinator for the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center.
Gary Hendrickson: former Professor of Literature, former Senior Grant Officer at National Endowment for Humanities, Academic Dean at M State Fergus Falls; Kari Kjsebo: former manager of the Underbrush Art Gallery, estate sale manager; Carolyn Aarsvold, elementary music teacher at Alexandria School for 10 years, owner of Geneva Beach Resort; Kari Adams: graphic designer with University Relations at University of Minnesota- Morris; Paul Schoenack: actor, director, and makeup artist, independent contract writer and trainer; Jimmy Schryver: Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Minnesota- Morris; Amy Schmidt: visual and literary artist, owner of used bookstore, volunteer president of Three Rivers Arts Council; Rebecca Mitchell: stained glass artist, Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator at Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center, owner of The Glass Lady Studio; Carolyn Flieder: former social worker for Lutheran Social Services, former owner of a Quilt Shop/Bed and Breakfast business, fiber artist, visual artist; Pagyn Harding: literary artist, author, volunteer for arts organizations as grant writer/publicity coordinator/administrator; Jane Gudmundson: retired Gallery Manager at Minnesota State University- Moorhead, former Education Director at Plains Art Museum; Nancy Berns: board member for Alexandria Area Arts Association Board and the IDS 206 Center for the Arts Focus Group, vocalist, choir director; Dick DuBord: retired Social Work professor for 27 years, Minnesota State University- Moorhead, wood carver and sculptor, Ottertail County alternate.
ACHF Arts Access
1. To provide a pleasing, useful multipurpose artspace in the community of New York Mills where the visual and performing arts can be practiced before live audiences. 2. To sponsor 6 performing arts events in the space (or indoors in the Cultural Center in case of inclement weather). 3. To create a mural to be painted on the west-facing exterior wall of Sugar Creek Woodworking. 4. To place 2 sculptures within the artspace. 5. To create 4 sculptural benches using agricultural motifs in their design. 6. To bring a minimum of 2,400 persons into the space to enjoy concerts, art, etc.1. A minimum of 150 persons who attend performing arts events at the new art space will complete a survey. At least 50% of those completing the survey will indicate a positive experience of the event and of the new space. 2. A minimum of 50 high school age persons will complete a survey of the visual and performing arts aspects of the new art space and at least 50% of those completing a survey will report a positive experience from using the space.
Everyone surveyed was asked to evaluate whether the space provided a needed expansion of art into the daily life of the community. More than 90% of those completing the survey responded that it did.