Minnesota Festival Support
Minnesota Festival Support
The Native American Community Development Institute will present the Indigenous Peoples Day Festival featuring cultural presentations, indigenous food events, indigenous dance exhibitions, interactive art experiences, contemporary performances, and an arts market with booths for multimedia Native artists.
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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Fiona Avocado: Artist, educator, organizer, and writer; Michelle Gratton: Jewelry artist; board chair, Two Harbors Area Arts & Events; Stephen Manuszak: Program director, Arts Midwest; Tabitha Montgomery: Executive director, Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association; Xinyi Qian: Tourism specialist and extension educator, University of Minnesota; Craig Samborski: President and owner of Draw Events, producer of Tall Ship Festivals; Joseph Scapanski: Board member, Benton County Fair and Minnesota State Fair
ACHF Cultural Heritage
Minnesotans, from diverse backgrounds, will be exposed to high-quality Native American art and culture. We will survey participants, artists, and partners during and after festivals by requesting the demographics of attendees, quality of their experience, and the diversity of programming they interacted with. 2: The Native artists will build upon their professional careers by developing audience engagement skills and interacting with new festival audiences. We will convene artists before and after festival to ask what they learned about themselves as an artist and how the festival changed their careers. We will track the number of people interacted with and opportunities gained through festival.
Minnesotans, from diverse backgrounds, were exposed to high-quality Native American art and culture. 147 surveys were collected from participants. Of the participants surveyed, approximately half identified as Native American, a quarter white/Caucasian, and a quarter other people of color (African American, Asian, Hispanic, etc). 2: Native artists built upon their professional careers by developing audience engagement skills and interacted with new festival audiences. Artists were fully engaged with audience members while delivering workshops in the Community Arts Tent. Attendance at these workshops were strong and stretched the capacity of tent itself.
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