Operating Support Grant
Operating Support Grant
The Duluth Superior Film Festival wishes to use funds from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council to support year-round marketing, staffing and programming.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
The Duluth Superior Film Festival’s short-range outcomes are to raise awareness of these types of cinema events through press and promotion, remain financially sound, stabilize our organization's ability to continue to produce events, and to energize arts in the region by presenting unique cinema experiences. The long-range outcome is to expand the regional artistic community by producing a quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking film festival, provide organizational growth and raise the profile of films produced regionally. Duluth Superior Film Festival’s (DSFF) Evaluation Plan is to continue to use the measurement outcome tools of: • audience surveys • attendance tracking at festival screenings • press and promotional coverage logging • new audience cultivation through cross collaborations with other arts organizations • profile raising of films produced regionally • fundraising increases through grant and sponsorship opportunities DSFF culls incredibly valuable information from use of these tools. Surveys give us feedback regarding audience enjoyment levels which gives insight to whether we are attaining our goal of providing quality, entertaining and thought-provoking cinema events. Additionally, as funding is secured, DSFF has goals to hire Audience Evaluation and Behavior professional Xinyi (Lisa) Qian from University of Minnesota Tourism Center to implement an Audience Assessment plan for the 2019 festival and year-round programs. She is experienced in applied research on tourism, festivals/events, and recreation.
The Duluth Superior Film Festival?s short range outcomes are to raise awareness of these types of cinema events through press and promotion, remain financially sound, stabilize our organization's ability to continue to produce events, and to energize arts in the region by presenting unique cinema experiences.
The long range outcome is to expand the regional artistic community by producing a quality, entertaining, and thought provoking film festival, provide organizational growth and raise the profile of films produced regionally.
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