Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support Year 2 (2023)
Cheryl Avenel-Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity council; Justin Beck, chair of Hutchinson Public Arts Commission, president of Hutchinson Center for the Arts, photography, music; Judy Beckman: vocal music, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone County Historical Society, Big Stone Lake Area Chamber of Commerce CEO; Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Kylie Rieke: ceramics, murals, music, theater, T-Bird Community Arts Board; Kristine Shelstad: visual arts, Madison Mercantile art gallery, Madison Arts Council, Lac qui Parle Players; VFW; Gillian Singler, MN West Community and Technical College chair of Humanities and English instructor, Creative Healing Space volunteer, writer, theater director; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheryl Avenel-Navara, arts admin, SMAC board; Mark Bosveld, theater; Cheniqua Johnson, theater, music; Joyce Meyer, visual art, education; Jane Otto, arts admin; Kerry Ward, visual art, grantwriting; Mark Wilmes, theater, SMAC Board
ACHF Arts Access
In 2023 we will have an artist install the tiles originally for a bench project on a concrete slab in front of the hospital. We are currently working with the director of Parks and Rec to find an artist to design a 32 X 7' mural for the Fitness Court that will be built this summer in Sperryville Park across the highway from Robins Island. We also continue to provide artists for the Art in the Schools for the Willmar Public Schools. Our membership has not improved as we had hoped, in fact, revenue decreased slightly. This is something we will discuss at our Board retreat. We have two new board members who are very enthusiastic and community-minded, so we're anticipating some fun ideas for new projects. We are planning to have a Board retreat and will work on developing new goals and projects. For most of our events we have a brief written survey we pass around. We feel strongly that it needs to be brief since people don't like filling out long surveys during an event. We also have board and committee members circulate in the crowd and engage with people or just listen for comments. We then have a post-event meeting and record our findings.
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