Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
1. Maintain current programs that are successful and stretch ourselves in all four program areas. 2. Expand staff and board and diversify and earned and contributed income. 3. Promote organizational sustainability by archiving materials, surveying artists, and mapping Nautilus’ genome, in order to genetically engineer a future organizational structure. Use audience surveys and critiques from featured artists.
We performed this year in our Lowertown studio: two fully-staged productions, plus six Rough Cuts programs. We chose material in Joan of Arc, Alice Unwrapped, John and Jen, I am Anne Frank, and The View From Here, that reflects contemporary social, cultural, and spiritual concerns of Minnesotans. We saw a wide diversity of audiences on tour and at home, and engaged a diverse group of artists. All our artists are paid professionals, and all work in the local arts community, contributing to the economy. Working closely with Springboard for the Arts, we designed and instituted our one-year Management Fellowship Program, which provides three young arts administrators with hands-on, mission-driven training. The positions are part-time (20 hrs per week) and paid, and include full participation in all of Nautilus' artistic and management activities, as well as guidance from a group of six professional mentors. All our Artist Development programs use extensive written evaluations, our tour was professionally evaluated by an independent contractor, and each activity included a debriefing with artists.
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