Operating Support
Operating Support
Nautilus Music-Theater provides opportunities for the artistic growth of music theater artists who create, develop, and perform new operas and other forms of music theater that are emotionally expansive, dramatically engaging, and spiritually stimulating. We form partnerships between creators, performers, and audiences in order to contribute to the quality and diversity of new American music theater. We envision an extended family of artists and audiences that uses music theater as a tool to support the individual and collective growth of the human spirit.
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.
Crystal Brinkman: Executive director, Kulture Klub Collaborative; Brenda Brousseau: Visual artist, app developer and software company owner; Michael Cook: Treasurer, Twin Cities Jazz Festival; retired banker; Sindiswa Georgiades: Project management and fund development professional; Betsy Husting: Retired fundraising consultant to nonprofit and arts organizations; Sonja Jacobsen: Retired office manager, Jacobsen Metal Fabrication; vocal and instrumental music teacher; board member, Mankato Symphony; Cheryl Kessler: Founder and principal evaluator, Blue Scarf Consulting, LLC; Philip McKenzie: Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts
Executive director Sue Gens (651) 215-1600
ACHF Arts Access
Increased depth and sophistication of artistic activity; more projects created by Minnesota artists; and a re-designed Management Fellowship Program. We will track our artists' response to our program through our evaluations (attached); commission more local artists in Rough Cuts, and collaborate with other organizations for our Management Fellows. 2: Implementing The Nautilus Genome Project: Completing our archives; analyzing our impact on past participants; devising an appropriate succession plan. The Nautilus Genome Project will share our archival information online in a new website, and the outline of a strategic succession plan will be developed by the end of FY19.
Our programs presented more work by local artists in our Institute, CL Studio, and Rough Cuts programs. Our Institute and Composer-Librettist Studio evaluations are available on request, along project descriptions of developmental projects by local artists. The Fellowship program was discussed but not yet implemented due to lack of additional funding. 2: Our Genome Project website is up: www.nautilusgenome.org, and we have begun data analysis. The preparation and research took longer than expected; the website is up and the survey has been distributed, and the data has been collected. The analysis will occur this coming fiscal year by staff and consultants.
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