Partners in Arts Participation
Partners in Arts Participation
Ecumen Prairie Lodge will engage with Kairos Alive! to facilitate dance, music, and storytelling experiences for elderly residents and their caregivers/families at Prairie Lodge's memory care and assisted living community.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre.
Amy Cousin: Jewelry artist; Emily Derke: Basketry artist and teaching artist; Maude Dornfeld: Executive director, Life House; Nathan Fisher: Filmmaker; creative director of Once Were and Again We Are; Scott Reynolds: Director, producer, writer, and performer; artistic director of Mixed Precipitation; Samantha Smingler: Inclusion coordinator, Great Lakes Aquarium; Stephanie Thull: Gallery shop coordinator, Arts Center of Saint Peter
ACHF Arts Access
Community seniors will improve their physical and social well-being through interactive dance, music and storytelling. Prairie Lodge will utilize Kairos Alive!'s mix of formal written and verbal evaluations and informal interviews to measure the improved social and physical well-being of the program's participants during and at the conclusion of the residency.
Community seniors improved their physical and social well-being through interactive dance, music, and storytelling. Prairie Lodge tracked participation with a spreadsheet. They also observed improvement in social and physical well-being of the program's participants during and at the conclusion of the residency.