Project Grant
Project Grant
Exploring our Heritage through Folk Arts will help participants develop a greater understanding of the heritage of northeast Stearns County through a series of programs focused on visual folk arts, culinary folk arts and performance folk arts.
Linda Brobeck: vice chair Wright County, visual artist, owner of Crow River North, LLC.; served on a number of non-profit boards; Mark Nelson: public school music teacher; choral director; community theatre director; voice lessons instructor; American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota board member; Leslie Hanlon: secretary Stearns County, director of fundraising and marketing for the College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John's University Fine Arts Series; Ken Barry: Blues musician; Victorian photographer proficient in Digital imaging and, Platinum/Palladium printing and Wet Plate Collodion process and Bromoil printing and Cyanotype printing; University of Wisconsin; certified nuclear engineer; Buddy King: Saint Cloud playwright, percussionist, teaching artist, unit director for the Roosevelt Boys and Girls Club in Saint Cloud, engaged in numerous youth arts initiatives in the community; Jo McMullen-Boyer: Central Minnesota Arts Board board member, station manager of KVSC Radio, music concert producer, community events organizer; Roger Reinardy: Central Minnesota Arts Board board member, fine and commercial artist, board member for Sauk Center Area Community Foundation.
Roger Reinardy: board member for Central Minnesota Arts Board, fine and commercial artist, board member for Sauk Center Area Community Foundation; Jeff Burns: cellist, treasurer for Buffalo Community Orchestra, grant writer for BCO, board members for Wright County Extension, Wright County Soil and Water, Monticello Community Education; Barb Kellogg: photographic artist specializing in nature creating elegant and timeless images, awarded the Artist Career Development Grant for “What Mental Illness Feels Like—Images & Stories”, photographer with increasing her knowledge of photographing with film, continuing the exploration of mental illness through photography and interviews to create a book; William Tregaskis, Ph.D: coordinator for the Buffalo office of Central Minnesota Mental Health Center, Chair of the Minnetonka Unitarian Universalist performing arts series,. president of the Buffalo Community Orchestra, Stephanie Peterson: Fine Arts/ Social Studies curriculum coordinator for Saint Cloud Area School District 742, involved with music with a touch of drama through high school and college and has remained interested and supportive of both fine arts education and community art programs ever since; Mike Brubaker: executive director of the Sherburne History Center, worked as an Executive Director, a curator, archivist, customer service manager, contract work in Historic Preservation with CLG programs, variety of public programs on family history and local history.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
More than 100 participants develop understanding of their heritage. Eighty percent of participants are underserved audiences with limited access to arts. At least 50 percent of participants are motivated to preserve/share their cultural heritage. We will intentionally observe the audience and their non-verbal responses. We will capture engagement through pictures. We will conduct individual surveys to identify growth in understanding and life impact from the program.
Outcomes: 1. 150 participants documented, more than 170 estimated. 2. 95% of participants identified as older adults, rural residents or students.3. Surveys/conversations supported that more than 50% felt the programs was motivational to preserving local culture. Evaluation: ? Interviewed more than 30 participants. ? Audience interaction and photos. ? Attendance records.
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