Start-up
Start-up
Nonprofit Startup Funding
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; Marilee Strom: musician, former art teacher, business owner; Kathy Fransen: musician, theatre, Rhythm of the River coordinator; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Pam Blake: retired art teacher, visual arts, Tyler Arts Council, Southwest Minnesota Weaver's Guild; Michele Knife Sterner: theatre actor, Southwestern Minnesota State University Associate Director for Access Opportunity Success program; Tom Wirt: artist, owner of Clay Coyote Gallery, Hutchinson Center for the Arts, past member of Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; Joyce Aakre: visual arts, writing, Discover Dassel committee, Board member for Litchfield Community Education, Exhibit committee for Dassel Area Historical Society; Kelly Muldoon: graphic artist, Prairie Music Association, Prairie Oasis Players; Dan Wahl: writer, visual artist, director, adjunct English instructor at Southwest Minnesota State University; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County; Brett Lehman: Worthington International Festival, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Reggie Gorter: vocalist, theatre, voice and dance teacher; Dana Johnson: producer/filmmaker; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teachers, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board; Kelly Muldoon: graphic artist, Prairie Music Association, Prairie Oasis Player, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board; John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board; Tom Wirt: artist, owner of Clay Coyote Gallery, founding member and president, Hutchinson Center for the Arts, past member Hutchinson Public Arts Commission, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board; Anne O'Keefe Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board.
ACHF Arts Education
More Minnesotans, especially those in the Southwest Minnesota Region, will be able to participate in the arts. Eventually, this will allow for the goals of the nonprofit to be fulfilled; serving the underserved, saving the at-risk, and doing this through arts education and various performance components. Evaluating this particular project, specifically the startup, will be if all documents are filed and approved. Going forward, we can speak to the experiments and evaluations, surveys, different business models, including continual inquiries for feedback from a variety of students and families as well as employees and community members were and still are being sought after and vetted.
All documents have been filed, state has been certified, awaiting final approval from federal. Approved documents equals a good evaluation.