Small Grants
Small Grants
Requesting to replace our programmable sound board for our V3Sound Module.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community.
Drew Digby: ARAC Executive Director; Holly Hackett-Rich: ARAC Grants Manager; Erin Turner: ARAC Operations Manager; Steve Wick: ARAC Office Coordinator.
ACHF Arts Access
This year, 2020, marks a milestone for the Singing Slovenes as we enter our 40th year of providing Traditional Slovenian music for our expanding audiences. During the past several years, we have added some additional venues which generate a larger audience base, both adult and youth audiences as we have accepted requests to perform in schools for events such as "Cultural Night". Some of the larger events include, "Harvest Moon Festival", Ely, MN, "Blueberry Festival", Bayfront Festival Park. It is quite easy to measure our outcomes as we are invited to perform year after year for these events and to follow on from the previous question, adding last years events at Bayfront Festival Park with "A Taste of Duluth" and the Duluth "Oktoberfestival" of which we will be performing at both events in 2020.