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2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,488
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Free Arts Minnesota
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
January 2014
End Date
December 2014
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Arts Access
Project Details
Free Arts Minnesota will partner with Northern Clay Center to provide an arts access experience to 60 youth living in shelters and residential treatment centers. The ceramics program will be centered on the theme of healing.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Wendy Dayton: Arts and community leader and philanthopist.; Sean Dowse: Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.; David Glenn, Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Benjamin Klipfel: Board member, Minnesota State Arts Board. Executive Director, Alexandria Area Arts Association, Inc. Director and arts educator.; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Anton Treuer: Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Maya Beecham: Executive assistant and creativity director, Youthprise; visual and spoken word artist; freelance writer; Laurel Bradley: Director and curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield; Gregory Bullard: Independent Management Consultant, Bullseye Services Corp.; Melissa Cuff: Director of grants and foundation relations for YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities.; Joanna Kohler: Filmmaker and Media producer, community storytelling; Sherri Pugh: Retired community economic developer and philanthropy administrator; Minnesota African American Museum volunteer; Paul Robinson: Director, James P. Shannon Leadership Institute, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul; Jessica Roeder: Writer, poet and teacher
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,488
Other Funds Leveraged
$0
Direct expenses
$15,488
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Through a focused arts access program, Free Arts will deepen its relationship with shelters, residential treatment centers and youth who live there. Surveys and interviews of staff and youth in partner shelters and residential treatment centers will measure the impact of the program on youth understanding of the ceramic art form and their ability to express concepts of healing. 2: Free Arts will bring typically inaccessible ceramic art experiences to sixty at-risk youth who often cannot leave their shelter or treatment settings. Surveys of volunteers, the teaching artist, facility staff, and youth in the program will be used to evaluate the program’s effectiveness. Free Arts will use the findings to adjust the plans for future programs.

Measurable Outcome(s)

By bringing a ceramics program into three treatment centers for youth, Free Arts deepened its relationship with those agencies and 72 underserved youth. 2: By bringing a ceramics program into three treatment centers, Free Arts made it possible for 72 youth to participate in a four-week arts program.

Description of Funds
Recipient Board Members
Dave Deal, Erinn Farrell, Carol Smith, Marissa Upin, Rhonda Hansford, Jane Hopkins Gould, Keith Kozerski, Lynn Maaske, Jeff Putnam, Peter Ekberg, Paul Braun, Pat Courtemanche, Mary Ann Heine
Project Manager
First Name
Daniel
Last Name
Thomas
Organization Name
Free Arts Minnesota
Street Address
400 1st Ave N Ste 518
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55401
Phone
(612) 824-2787
Email
dan@freeartsminnesota.org
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Administered By
Administered by

Minnesota State Arts Board

Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
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Email the Agency
msab@arts.state.mn.us
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