To enhance nonoprofit arts groups' ability to serve the artistic cultural and geographic diversity of the metro area by strengthening their management and/or infrastructure.
PAM Education is a training series developed for homeowners, realtors, community members and professionals in fields that frequently interact with historic buildings and districts. This year the program had a significant focus on reaching new audiences.
Chinese Social Service Center will collaborate with Pan Asian Arts Alliance and local Asian service agencies, to offer the acrobatic performance, Fenmo to Asian seniors in order to break away the isolation and increase access to arts.
Free Arts for Abused Children's YES To Art program involves local artists creating short, themed projects with abused and at-risk, homeless youth. The program offers young people opportunities to build new skills in theater and to publicly perform their work.
The SWAY (Seniors Weaving Arts with Youth), a community dance/theatre program is a collaborative between artist (Kairos Dance Theatre) and social service entity (NORC: Home for a Lifetime!). The program blends art, elders and youth in an intergenerational dance/theater series over 4-6 weeks culminating in a community celebratory performance.
Southeast Asian Community Council's Art Adventures engages and increases access to the rich art and cultural vibrancy of the Twin Cities for underprivileged Hmong youths through art classes taught by local Hmong artists and field trips to local art organizations.
Children's Arts and Healing Project is a collaborative project designed to broaden opportunities for patients, children, and families who visit our hospitals, to participate in the arts.
Lyngblomsten to provide a year of arts events workshops for older adults and intergenerational community members designed to enhances lives, ignite creativity, and drive passion toward living full, whole lives. Workshops in visual arts, writing, vocal music, and storytelling will happen on site as well as provide funds for off-site transportation to arts events.
Artful Living at Lyngblomsten: Arts for Every Season of Life, brings fine arts events, workshops by resident artists, and celebrations of creativity for Lyngblomsten older adults and community members. Through this request, they are introducing two new seasons of art to complete 2011 and continuing two art partnerships from previous seasons.
Mother of Mercy Campus of Care will run two, 6-week sessions of hands on art work in water color and clay. We will bring in local artist/teachers and have our residents and tenants actively work with watercolor for six weeks, then clay for six weeks to create their own personal art.
The Otter Tail-Wadena Community Action Council will partner with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center to bring 200 underserved adults into participation in the arts in Wadena and Otter Tail Counties of Minnesota.
Musical theater collaboration with Sounds of Hope, Ltd. 233 adults with developmental disabilities will use theater, music, and dance to bridge differences and broaden arts participation. Transportation to rehearsal space at MacPhail Center for Music will introduce clients to a new arts resource.
Project SUCCESS will collaborate with the Guthrie Theater to organize four different field trips featuring three different productions for students at Washburn and South High Schools in Minneapolis.
A writing group and an art group Expression for Wellness and Effectiveness will each meet twice monthly, for nine months, to prepare, share, and critique participants' work. It will be advertised in the Powderhorn and Phillips neighborhoods. A chapbook (32 pages) and a gallery exhibition of at least twelve works will be presented in L'Orange Gallery.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation will stage a series of 24 interactive arts events, working with COMPAS to identify visual, music, and written word artists who will address the needs of the diverse populations we serve.
Four Community Centers (Brian Coyle Center, Waite House, Oak Park, and Pillsbury House) will establish long-term program partnerships with Minnesota artists and arts organizations to provide diverse multi-disciplinary art programs for over 120 Minneapolis youth. Funds will provide transportation, tickets, supplies, and artist stipends.
The project is designed to introduce emotionally disturbed youth to a new form of communication via the art form of dance with Zenon Dance Company, and help them experience trust as part of a team to prepare them for successful re-entry into the school from which they were removed.
The Immigrant, Refugee and Battered Women’s Task Force will bring advocates and immigrant and refugee women to the Pangea World Theater performance of Breaking Silence. Events around the performance that bring issues of battered immigrant women to the forefront will be crafted by the two organizations.
Multiple theatrical and dance performances for young men in the Gang Reduction and Intervention program as well as kids from the youth center will attend performances: Four Little Girls of Birmingham (SteppingStone) m, Barrio Grrrrl (CTC) , STOMP (Ordway), and the Political Theater Festival with Teatro del Pueblo (location tba).
Barrio Grrrl! with Children's Theatre Company and School. The project will equip 75 children ages 8-14 to better see the power of art to understand their own culture and others. Pre-show presentations, workshops led by teaching artists, and post-show writing workshops will help the children to communicate their own story.
WISE summer arts will provide underserved immigrant/refugee teen girls with the tools and opportunity to learn about visual arts, create physical expressions of their ideas on culture and identity, and introduce their art to the community in a bold and diverse formal exhibition.
This visual arts education will be incorporated into Wayside’s array of addiction services to assist women with using the arts as a healing tool. This will help reduce barriers to participating in the arts. Classes will take place at Wayside House and at Articulture; childcare will be provided.
The Minnesota Historical Society created communication strategies and promotional materials for many of the ACHF-funded programs to increase public awareness and ensure that citizens, educators and students would use and benefit from the new programs.
