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ACHF Arts Access
Arts for Young People: East Side Arts Council will increase arts access for youth through after-school art classes at inner-city schools, at seventeen recreation centers through Rec Check and Summer Blast, KidVenture (K-5), and ArtVenture (middle school) out-of-school day camps and offerings at community centers for at-risk youth. All programs were evaluated by staff at centers, teachers at schools, artists, and participants. Evaluations are used to improve the program. Focus groups of participants were held. During this time period East Side Arts Council also held meetings and focus groups within the community to gather ideas for upcoming work. 2: Arts in Urban Life: East Side Arts Council will enhance community life and advocate for the arts by infusing an arts presence into city and neighborhood projects and maintain Phalen Lake Poetry Park, which it created. This is evaluated by the increased art in the community which brings a feeling of stable safe neighborhoods with welcoming spaces for people. Art is so important for this, and the East Side Arts Council is working hard to bring artists to the table to create neighborhood vibrant spaces through public art and art-filled urban life.
Our out of school day and after school arts program brought 1,500 art classes taught by professional artists to inner city underserved youth at seventeen recreation centers and artist residencies at seven schools. Fifteen artists were hired for school residencies which infused the arts into core subjects. Our Artmobile toured the East Side of St Paul, setting up art classes for at risk youth in the open spaces. All our art classes and programs are free of charge and accessible to all. We served an underserved population who do not have much access to the arts. 2: The East Side Arts Council hosted two performances at Phalen Lake, several readings and public events at our Poetry Park, and have been leaders in public art that will soon go up at Beacon Bluff (a large development of businesses on the East Side old 3M site). We have received a National Endowment for the Arts fast track grant for a sculpture by artist Gita Ghei with workshops for youth that will bring the community into the site, with art as the connector. East Side Arts Council has received a grant from the McKnight Foundation to accomplish six Public Art projects with professional artists over the next two years in public areas of the East Side, thereby building vibrant communities through the arts.
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