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.
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.
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.; 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.
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 participant information online in a new website, and the outline of a strategic succession plan will be developed by the end of FY20.
We presented three of seven Rough Cuts. Plus one Composer-Librettist Studio, four Master Classes, and one new commission; Management Fellowship is on hold. Written evaluations were secured for CL Studio. We have ongoing discussions with Rough Cuts artists and the commission project. Master Classes were evaluated through conversations with contracting instructors; rated high and more classes planned. 2: Great progress on Genome Project, although the timeline has been pushed back due to the addition of the audience component. Our archiving continues. Consultants Brown and Hujda have begun analyzing narrative responses from the survey, and have generated initial data, which includes a substantial written evaluation component. The website has been delayed as we get a better idea of its design.
Other, local or private