Operating Support
Operating Support
Great River Arts exists to enrich lives by providing arts experiences and services to the people of Morrison County and the surrounding communities.
Ardell Brede: former mayor of Rochester; Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: executive director of grants and sponsored programs for Saint Mary's University of Minnesota., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota; Sean Dowse: former mayor of Red Wing; former executive director, Sheldon Theatre; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Thomas Moss: consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Ardell Brede: former mayor of Rochester; Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: executive director of grants and sponsored programs for Saint Mary's University of Minnesota., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota; Sean Dowse: former mayor of Red Wing; former executive director, Sheldon Theatre; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Thomas Moss: consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
GRA is developing and executing a strategy to increase the impact of its visual arts programs, in terms of benefits for artists as well as patrons. GRA will evaluate success by tracking responses to 'Curated by GRA' evaluations, along with the 50 retail artisans featured at GRA. Exhibitions and programs, in addition to sales of works exhibited, will be aggregated and compared to previous years. 2: GRA staff is performing a strategic assessment of GRA value proposition, services, and marketing objectives and approaches. GRA staff is performing a strategic assessment of financial resiliency and how staff and board representatives present our value proposition to the community, key services, and marketing approaches, focusing on visual arts and memberships.
Covid related closures made it difficult to meet this goal. By tracking our visitorship and consignment sales we were able to evaluate the effectiveness of our efforts when we were able to re-open, first to visitors, then for programming. 2: Ongoing Covid restrictions made this goal difficult to achieve. GRA staff was able to keep finances stable during pandemic while still engaging artists in our galleries after reopening for visitors, and later when performances could begin again.
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