Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Rural and Community Art Project Grant
Creativity in the Workplace: A project to infuse art into the working environment at MDI Hired Hands to inspire, encourage, and engage our employees.
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, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Johnnie Hyde: choreographer and dance teacher, publisher; Anthony Kuznik: retired music teacher and school administrator, arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Our goals for the project are to bring together professional artists and our employees to create artwork for our new facility. We hope to engage most of our nearly 100 employees in the project and that they will feel a sense of pride and ownership in the work displayed throughout the site. It is also our goal that this project will help us create a worksite that visually reflects the values of our organization as we work to create meaningful employment for people with disabilities. Employees' involvement and attendance will be tracked to help us measure our success in meeting our goal of engagement. At the end of the project employee participants will be surveyed about their experience making the art with questions designed to gather qualitative information about the impact of the project. Finally, all employees -- both those who participated and those who did not -- will be surveyed about their impressions of the new artwork installed to determine whether it has an impact on their work experience (good, bad, or otherwise). We will also use the public open house to collect responses from the general public about the new artwork and what impression it makes with our customers and the general public.
This project engaged 60 employees of MDI in creating artwork for our facility in Cohasset. The employees worked with three different local artists and learned new skills in digital photography, painting and drawing, and collaborative mural-making. The resulting permanent display of artwork provides a sense of pride and ownership for employees of MDI and creates a worksite that visually reflects the values of our organization as we work to create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
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