Organizational Stability Grant
Organizational Stability Grant
COVID-19 Relief. This grant would help offset some of the revenue already lost and projected to be lost by County Seat Theater due to COVID-19.
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
Funding is necessary for us to remain in business. We operate on thin bottom lines, producing excellent live theater at affordable prices. Our children's theater program costs less than half of the expense of other similar programs in the region, and yet gives the kids an experience for which they return year after year. The Encore! Performing Arts Center has become a regular performance venue for many local, regional, and national artists. County Seat Theater is important to the region. It provides an important outlet to perform and view a variety of live theater, music, and dance. Our simply goal is to stay in business. Beyond that, we have progressive plans for growing County Seat, both physically and in the offerings for our patrons. Those plans are now obviously on hold. If we are able to keep our doors open and pick up our strategic plans where we left off by the end of 2021, we would consider that to be a tremendous recovery and success. Realistically, it may take two full years for us to recover financially from the losses we expect to sustain due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have achieved even more goals than we set for ourselves. We continue to learn and adapt each day, with each hand that we are dealt. We will make this work and the extra funding allows us to worry less about the income and focus more of our energy to creating and exposing Carlton County to the arts. Which plays a huge role in the mental health of the community.