Partners in Arts Participation
ACHF Arts Access
Partnerships are developed between social service organizations and arts organizations to better serve underserved communities. More Minnesotans are able to participate in the arts. Social or human service organizations use arts to help achieve their service goals. Perceived or real barriers to participation are addressed.
Although Kulture Klub Collaborative has long served its mission of bringing artist and homeless youth together, it was their first partnership with a homeless youth serving organization in the east metro. Together we were able to bring the arts to a group of St Paul youth who had not previously engaged in their activities. The muralist who Kulture Klub Collaborative contracted with to lead the project had never worked specifically with our target population. Much was learned by all of us about access and support as we completed the mural, particularly around child-care. We also learned some valuable lessons around timing and scheduling activities. We conducted a focus group with the staff from Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the staff from Kulture Klub Collaborative and the guest artists. 2: Twenty-six individual homeless youth participated in arts activities that they had never before experienced. Of those, twenty expressed a desire to continue to participate in arts activities. We used a focus group to conduct our evaluation.
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