Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
1. Artists will learn reflective tools to help them continually improve the quality of their work. 2. Expand the community of artists practicing critical response protocols to dialogue about each other’s work. 3. Commission and produce new work from a Minnesota-based playwright. 4. Expand the artist fellowship program. 5. Prepare to add a third mainstage production to be directed by an artist fellow. 6. Continue collaborating with Perpich Center for Arts Education and Minneapolis School District to work with students and classroom teachers in the schools. 7. Finish a complete set of lesson plans and writing sequences. Use audience surveys and statistical data.
As part of our New Works 4 Weeks program, Red Eye conducted eleven critical feedback sessions involving six to twenty artists at each. All participating artists experienced the protocols applied to their own work, as well as practiced them in responding to the work of the others. Red Eye commissioned a script from Minnesota playwright Christina Ham that was workshopped and fully mounted. We worked with two artist interns, continued to research other artist fellowship programs, and generated a position description for a new fellowship position. Due to the challenging economy, we dropped plans for a third production in FY 2013, but will work toward that goal for the future. We extended partnerships with Minneapolis Public Schools and Perpich Center for Arts Education, conducting professional development sessions in the Red Eye Tableau Strategy (RETS) for just under 200 teachers and teaching artists, including two new sites in Rockford and Saint Paul. In addition, we developed a set of lesson plans for the RETS writing sequence.
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