Project Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our outcomes include: 1) Enhancing the visibility of Central Minnesota artists by providing a wide audience for them to showcase their work. 2) Providing a forum for arts exposure and education for young people throughout the region. 3) Maintaining our ability to offer Central Minnesota residents the annual, free, outdoor Symphony Orchestra concert that has become a summer tradition. We survey participants, attendees, and art vendors. An annual participant survey for attendees. We work with the Paramount to evaluate the Children's area activities. We measure attendance at multiple activities and overall attendance at the fair.
Our achieved outcomes were: 1) Provided a forum for more than 200 artists to exhibit and sell their work to a large (10,000-plus) public audience. 2) Provided an art education experience for more than 1,500 youth in various media (painting, pottery, drawing, etc.) throughout the day via the Little Lemons Children’s Area. 3) Offered an outdoor, evening concert to more than 1,000 community members. Our Evaluation Strategies were: 1) We sent a post-event evaluation to all our art and craft vendors to gather feedback about their experience and determine our effectiveness in providing them a forum to exhibit and sell their work. The evaluation was generally positive but we were able to gain some good feedback that will allow us to tweak our service offerings in the future. 2) In consultation with the Paramount Arts District, we evaluated our offerings through the Little Lemons Children’s Area and will continue to mix up our offerings from year to year to keep things fresh for returning families. 3) We conducted a survey of the audience and determined that we had between 10,500 and 11,500 attendees at this year’s fair. While not quite at our peak attendance, we met our goal of 10,000 participants.
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