Organizational Stability Grant
Organizational Stability Grant
Support for Lyric Opera of the North during COVID closures.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; 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.
Roxann Berglund: musician; Leah Yellowbird: multi-medium visual artist; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Classie Dudley: ARAC Arts Leadership Fellow; Joan Farnam: ceramicist, founder of North Shore Arts Scene.
ACHF Arts Access
Lyric Opera of the North provides opportunities for shared experiences through the beautiful, elevating art form of opera. Our goal throughout public closures is to stay connected with our constituents, stay financially healthy, and to continue to plan and create new work, sharing what we can now, and preparing for live opera in the future. Our successful efforts now will mean that we can continue to engage artists, technicians, and craftspeople from many disciplines for years to come. Though this request is for project support to go directly to the artists involved in creation of new art, please note that the significant ongoing work of salaried staff is also crucial to the survival of the company. Though the administrative portion of this interim work will not be paid for with ARAC funds, the admin staff here are also artists who have lost income due to COVID. Every single person who is working in admin or opera creation for the coming weeks with LOON is a professional artist. Our efforts in the coming months will focus on staying connected with our artists, volunteers, and patrons, while making new friends for opera and for LOON. We will track engagement with social media posts and emails, as well as donations and responses to various appeals through our CRM. We will continue to work to maintain high artistic standards in our online offerings, as we do in our live productions. Success will look like an engaged patron base and continued production of high quality opera in traditional and new formats. Success will look like the ability to offer contracts to artists for upcoming productions because we are healthy enough to move forward and create.
Lyric Opera of the North co-created the Decameron Opera Coalition with 8 other companies and premiered the DOC's first opera, Tales from a Safe Distance, in October 2020. Lyric Opera of the North commissioned its very first opera, "Everything Comes to a Head" as a part of this project. This was LOON's first commission, first film project, and first streamed event. The project was seen in 42 states and in 17 countries and now lives in the Library of Congress and on the Idagio Global Concert Hall, where people are still able to purchase tickets to see it!
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