Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
No information provided in application. Our evaluation methods include talkback sessions between artists and audiences in our Rough Cuts presentations, detailed de-briefings with artists for productions and Rough Cuts, written evaluations for classes and the Wesley Balk Institute, and written and verbal interviews with tour sponsors and audiences. We have a detailed values statement, which serves as the basis for in-house staff de-briefing.
Apparently, we misunderstood the question in our original application, and did not specify specific goals/outcomes. In fiscal year 2013, our programs included (1) Artist development: our Wesley Balk Opera Music-Theater Institute, Management Fellowship Program, and classes for local singer-actors, held in collaboration with Mu Performing Arts and Teatro del Pueblo; (2) Rough Cuts: a near-monthly series presenting such works-in-progress as 5 Operas for 44 Presidents, Fidgety Fairy Tales, Crossings, Thick as a Brick, Lost and Found, Snow, Life Is, Lamb in Love, Yukionna, and new songs by Claudia Schmidt; (3) Productions: We produced I am Anne Frank at the Southern Theater, and toured three productions to outstate Minnesota, including The View From Here, Alice Unwrapped, and Nautilus in Concert, and presented Thick as a Brick in collaboration with the University of Minnesota; and (4) Community Commissions: additional projects such as the Northern Spark Festival and the West Side Theater Project.
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