Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Interactive Theater Week 2017
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Duane Barnhart: watercolor painter, cartoonist; Mary McReynolds: arts administrator at Lyric Center for the Arts; Chris Marcotte: retired social worker, historian, writer; Maria Brown: art instructor and program coordinator at CHOICE, unlimited!; Mason Wilson: artist, illustrator.
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Drew Digby (218) 722-0952
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our goal is to have at least 75 students from Kindergarten to 12th grade directly involved and participating in live theater. Our second goal is to have an additional 30 students involved and participating in our theatrical workshops that are provided three times during the week. These workshops are available to students that did not make the cut for the play. We also have a goal of having 400 people from our community attend our Friday night performance. Our last goal is to have 75% of our local businesses collaborate with Community Education to help advertise for our event this year. We have an online registration system that will track the ages and amount of students registered for the one week long workshop and performance as well as the three workshops offered during the week. We also sell tickets at the event and keep track of our attendance totals. For our businesses we have a list of all of our local downtown businesses and we will keep track of how many businesses collaborate to help advertise for our event.
We had 372 community members attend our community theater production. Students that were able to take the workshop classes were able to use those skills learned in the workshop and apply them to theater practice and finally the performance. 73% of the students that participated in our program were families that receive free or reduced lunch at our school, which means they are below the poverty line. These students were able to participate in a program that taught them skills, they would otherwise not learn in our academic programs in the Aitkin School district. We had students that ranged from Kindergarten to 12th grade in our community performance.
Other, local or private