Operating Support Grant
Operating Support Grant
Funds will be used to pay general office expenses, advertising costs, coordinator salary.
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 ACHF Cultural Heritage
The artistic mission of the Ely Winter Festival (EWF) is to bring the arts out in full view of the public in the middle of a long winter. The evaluation plan seeks to answer these questions: 1. To what extent does the Ely Winter Festival strengthen the Ely community? A. Does the EWF offer a broad array of well-attended events' B. Are area hotels full during both weekends of the festival? C. Are sponsorships from local businesses steady or increasing, in number and amount? 2. How do the arts components affect the artists' 3. To what extent do the arts components affect the audience? In addition, EWF will track the number of professional sculptures and carvers, the number of carvers from Ely, Minnesota, and outside the state and/or the country. EWF will also track how many carvers are new participants vs. returning participants from prior years. To assess whether the Ely Winter Festival (EWF) offers a broad array of well-attended events, we will create a master list of all festival events and collect attendance information (if available). We will consider the number of events as well as attendance or participation. We will also ask event organizers for comments on how successful the events were, in their view. To assess whether hotels are full for the two weekends of the festival, we will conduct a telephone survey of hotels. To assess whether sponsorships are remaining steady or increasing, we will track sponsorships – both number and dollar amount - from the business community. To answer how the arts components, affect the artists, EWF will survey snow carvers. Among other questions, the survey will ask how the Symposium affects their career in the arts. We will also determine the value of the gifts for artists, including housing and meals. We will ask the Ely ArtWalk and Downtown Arts Market to share their participant survey and sales results, number of participants and participating merchants, and audience size (if known). We will ask other participating arts organizations to share their evaluations with EWF. To answer the question of how the arts, affect our audience, we will allow the public to vote for a People’s Choice award for snow sculptures. We will place paper survey forms in Whiteside Park and area businesses, and place survey collection boxes around town.
"The evaluation plan seeks to answer three questions:
1. To What extent does the Ely Winter Festival strengthen the Ely community?
2. How do the arts components of the Ely Winter Festival affect the artists?
3. To what extent do the arts components of the Ely Winter Festival affect the audiences?
We also collect data to show trends in the number of carvers and sculptures, and gather feedback from our four key constituent groups: artists, the business community, audience members, and the organizations that sponsor events. Our evaluation indicates that the 2019 EWF was successful in achieving its measurable outcomes."
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