Funds will assist in establishing Art and Drama classes on “Art Mondays” at the Clear Waters Life Center Gonvick Visual and Performing Arts Center for youth and adults.
The Arts Education in Minnesota Schools Research Project is surveying all public and private schools to collect baseline data on the status of arts education statewide to serve as a resource for making data-driven decisions. A national research and evaluation company, Quadrant Arts Education Research, is conducting the study, comprised of three elements.
The Backus Community Center will collaborate with the teaching artist members of the Emmy-winning Tonic Sol-fa to provide eleven days and 88 hours of vocal instruction and performance in ten underserved communities throughout Minnesota.
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
Dis/Cover the Arts expands our capacity to grow audiences of people with disabilities by removing barriers, better fulfilling our mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability.
MacPhail Center for Music requests $75,000 to develop and expand its Inclusive Partnership Initiative to four community partnerships (from 54 to 58) in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota reaching 850 additional students and recruiting five new teaching artists rooted in arts-based community-building.
To provide unprecedented access to in-depth, high-quality arts instruction (an average of 10 contact hours per student) on MCFTA campus, at its new classroom at Ridgedale Center, and in the community for an estimated 500 at-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth identified by seven grassroots community partners
