Minnesota Festival Support
Minnesota Festival Support
The 27th annual Ely Winter Festival will feature giant snow sculptures, art in store windows, an arts and crafts marketplace, a writers' crawl, classes, and musical performances from February 6-16, 2020, in celebration of Ely's beautiful winter season.
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.; 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; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Michelle Baroody: ; Wendy LaRoque-Lundin: Native American fiber artist and educator; Erik Madsen-Bond: Director of Engagement and Company Manager, Ragamala Dance Company; Holly Menninger: Director of public engagement and science learning, Bell Museum; Karen Michels: Executive director, Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce.; Patricia Mitchell: ; Raymond Rea: Filmmaker and writer; Kristen Twitchell: Executive director, Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault
ACHF Cultural Heritage
The Ely business community is strengthened by increasing tourist and resident activity during the Ely Winter Festival. EWF volunteers will conduct a face-to-face survey of downtown businesses to determine whether the Ely Winter Festival increases customers/revenues, and will ask for feedback as to how we could help to further strengthen the Ely community. 2: Audience members will be exposed to art in several forms and will engage with the arts and artists. EWF volunteers will interview attendees at multiple arts events. Questions will be designed to measure engagement; e.g., how did you participate, what did you find most interesting, will you attend this event again, what could EWF do better?.
Sixteen of twenty businesses surveyed reported that the EWF had a positive or strongly positive impact on Ely business revenues. EWF conducted face-to-face surveys with three motels, six restaurants and eleven retail stores. Businesses were asked how the EWF impacted their revenues and Ely business revenues in general, and what EWF could to do further strengthen the business commun 2: More than half of audience members surveyed reported that they had talked to snow carvers, and most said they planned to attend other arts events. Volunteers surveyed 77 families or groups including 151 audience members in Whiteside Park on the first weekend of the festival. 32 people surveyed were under age 18, 69 were adults, and 50 were seniors.
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