Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support FY18/19.
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor, director, teacher; Marilee Strom: musician, former art teacher, business owner; Kathy Fransen: musician, theatre, Rhythm of the River coordinator; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Pam Blake: retired art educator, visual artist, Tyler Arts Council, Lincoln County Art Fair, South Dakota Arts Educators Association, Southwest Minnesota Weaver's Guild; Michele Knife Sterner: theatre actor, SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Tom Wirt: artist, owner Clay Coyote Gallery, Hutchinson Center for the Arts, past member Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; Joyce Aakre: visual arts, writing, Discover Dassel committee, Board member for Litchfield Community Education, Exhibit committee for Dassel Area Historical Society; Kelly Muldoon: graphic artist, Prairie Music Association, Prairie Oasis Players; Dan Wahl: writer, visual artist, director, adjunct English instructor SMSU; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County; Brett Lehman: Worthington International Festival, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Reggie Gorter: vocalist, theatre, voice, dance teacher; Dana Conroy: producer, filmmaker; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Joyce Aakre: Visual Art, Writing, SMAC Board; Pam Blake: Visual Art, SMAC Board; Mark Bosveld: Theatre, Arts Admin; Steve Linstrom: Writing, Museum Admin; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: Visual Art, SMAC Board; Liz Rackl: Visual Art, Arts Admin; Tom Wirt: Visual Art, SMAC Board.
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Nicole DeBoer (507) 537-1471
ACHF Arts Access
1) Increase attendance/program participation at the Art Center by 15%. 2) Increase community support and advocacy for the Art Center and the arts. 3) Secure a new facility that will allow us to expand programs and services and meet the needs of our expanding audiences. 1) Monitor attendance numbers, solicit participant feedback to determine interests/needs, conduct periodic online surveys to determine out visibility. 2) Survey volunteers, members/donors, and gift shop artists; track memberships, monitory gift shops inventory and sales. 3) The board/facility committee will identify and secure new rental space.
Increased Participation: We have increased some sections of our youth classes to 2 sections finding creating sections of different age groups. Our Art Kids Drop in Day sees consistently increasing participation (on average we have 15 - 30 participants a month). We have created an offsite program from Seniors, Creative Pallette, that brings artists and musicians the chance to work with clients at a senior care facility. Increased Community Support: We have seen increased membership by 15%. We currently have 12 artists represented in our gift shop. We were able to work with a pro bono 3M team to help us work on volunteer recruitment and retention. With this program we developed a new system to track hours. Out side of our Board, Committee Volunteers, we also have 3 regular volunteers supporting different aspects of the orgranization's needs from cleaning, to on-call special project support and for the summer of 2019 we will have a college student running Art Kids Drop In Days as well as supporting our Summer Youth Educator Building. The Board has established a committee that is currently looking for opportunities for a economical and multi -use space at the end of our lease relationship.
Other,local or private