Quick Support for Artists
Quick Support for Artists
Granite Falls Home Companion Companion Vol. 2: Editing and Publicity
Cheryl Avenel-Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity council; Justin Beck, chair of Hutchinson Public Arts Commission, president of Hutchinson Center for the Arts, photography, music; Judy Beckman: vocal music, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone County Historical Society, Big Stone Lake Area Chamber of Commerce CEO; Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Kylie Rieke: ceramics, murals, music, theater, T-Bird Community Arts Board; Kristine Shelstad: visual arts, Madison Mercantile art gallery, Madison Arts Council, Lac qui Parle Players; VFW; Gillian Singler, MN West Community and Technical College chair of Humanities and English instructor, Creative Healing Space volunteer, writer, theater director; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter
Daryl Hrdlicka, theater, film; Anna Johannsen, visual art, fiber art, SMAC board; David KelseyBassett, music, visual art, SMAC board; Janet Olney, visual art, fiber art; Kylie Rieke, visual art, performing arts, SMAC board; Claire Swanson, visual art, fiber art
ACHF Arts Access
Will Hanson, one of the sketch writers / editors, is hoping to garner more samples of his editing work, which with this would provide him. Miles Taylor's winter goal after finishing the sketch show is to create a demo TV show credits sequence; editing our sketches would enable him to hone those skills in preparation for that. We would like to experiment with promoting our show on various Internet platforms, so having well-edited, professional-looking pieces would very much help; we hope to post more frequently on our Facebook page and create a Granite Falls Home Companion TikTok. We're also looking to do more traveling live shows -- in the spring, our goal is to perform at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis + perhaps at a venue in Iowa City. We'll know we've succeeded in creating positive changes if our audience at the watch party is even larger than last time (putting up posters around Granite Falls will help accomplish that), if our YouTube watch numbers rise, and if we successfully branch out onto TikTok. We also hope to include measurably more members of the local community by being more vocal about when we're filming sketches, since last time we failed to advertise said filming times and many people who hoped to make it could not do so. Finally, we'll use an evaluation form to poll audience members about their favorite sketches / potential avenues for improvement, and will ideally garner even more solid sketch ideas for Volume 3.
Dividing labor more efficiently helped us create more visually-diverse and tighter short films and streamline our production process. Personally, the ability not just to write sketches but to film them in a way that captures their spirit has been great fo