Partners in Arts Participation
Partners in Arts Participation
Project for Pride in Living will engage with artists whose work reflects the cultural communities of residents who have experienced homelessness, building cultural understanding and connection through arts participation.
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
PPL will engage residents in positive experiences together to strengthen family and community bonds. PPL staff will track attendance at art events and conduct unstructured interviews with participants after each event. 2: Residents will deepen awareness and knowledge about their own and other cultures within their community. PPL staff will conduct unstructured interviews of program participants after each event.
PPL engaged residents in positive experiences together to strengthen family and community bonds. Staff observed participants engaging, diving right into improv, acting silly (artist's word), and laughing. 2: 27% of participants deepened awareness/knowledge of the artist's culture and 57% of participants deepened awareness/knowledge of their own culture. A sticker chart method of evaluation was used. Participants noted their responses to specific questions with colored stickers on posters at the end of the event.