Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
2018 Ely ArtWalk
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; 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; 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; 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!; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goals are to invite local artists of all levels of expertise to share their art with the community, to engage local merchants to offer their window space for exhibits, and to bring exciting exhibits to the community and out-of-town visitors to enhance their appreciation and enjoyment of the arts. Measurable project outcomes are: To showcase high quality works of art. To maintain or expand participation by adult and student artists. To maintain or increase the number of participating merchants. To connect artists with interested buyers. Over the years, we hope the Ely ArtWalk will help strengthen the winter tourism economy and provide more opportunities for artists to live and work in the Ely area. The Ely ArtWalk organizing committee routinely tracks the number of adult and youth artists, the number of artworks on display, the number of participating merchants, and total sales. It also conducts surveys of participating artists and merchants each year at the close of the event to collect feedback on several measures of satisfaction. Artist feedback is incorporated in the planning process for future events. Lodging tax collections are tracked and provided by the Ely Chamber of Commerce.
Measurable project outcomes were: • to showcase high quality works of art • to maintain or expand participation by adult and student artists • to maintain or increase the number of participating merchants • to connect artists with interested buyers. The organizing committee found the art submitted to be of high quality. The number of participating artists was approximately the same as the prior year (88 adults vs.90 last year; 30 students both years). The number of participating merchants increased by one (48 vs 47 last year). A number of pieces were sold, so it appears our mechanism for connecting artists with buyers is effective.
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