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2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,665
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Guthrie Theatre Foundation AKA Guthrie Theater
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2015
End Date
August 2015
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Arts Access
Project Details
Through a new partnership to help ninth graders achieve academic success and become empowered arts citizens, the Guthrie and Minneapolis Public Schools will offer summer learning opportunities in acting and musical theater.
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. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Wendy Dayton: Arts and community leader and philanthropist.; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Ellen McInnis: Director of Twin Cities government relations, Wells Fargo. Member of Bottineau Boulevard Partnership. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Susan Berdahl: Director of marketing and communications, St. David's Center; Laurel Bradley: Director and curator, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College; Mary Flicek: Arts administrator, board member, River Junctions Arts Council; Scott Gilbert: Theater artist and educator, director and producer, Segue Productions; Nicole Helget: Memoir and fiction writer, Mankato; Elizabeth Larson: Arts administrator, Bach Society of Minnesota, freelance musician; Larry Retzlaff: Landscape painting artist, portrait photographer, cofounder of Third Life Studio, and founder, Q1 Gallery, Minneapolis; Emily Wright: Managing director, Minnesota Guitar Society
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

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,665
Other Funds Leveraged
$2,148
Direct expenses
$15,813
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Twenty ninth graders from Minneapolis Public Schools high schools will explore their talents and develop theater skills by participating in intensive summer acting workshops. We will work with Wilder Research to develop evaluation instruments to assess the project’s outcomes based on the district’s Arts Citizenship Pathway goals and the Guthrie’s education goals.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Eleven low-income high school students received scholarships that allowed them to explore their talents and developed skills in summer theater camps. The planning team consulted with the Theater Communications Group to develop an evaluation instrument, drawing on a recent project, Building a National TEAM: Theatre Education Assessment Models. The student survey gathered demographic information and responses to interval scale questions and open ended questions. The parents were asked for open ended feedback at the final session of the camps. Teaching artists were able to provide feedback and suggestions for improvement at a debriefing meeting.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members
Peggy Steif Abram, Martha Goldberg Aronson, Y. Marc Belton, Senator Terri Bonoff, Blythe Brenden, Priscilla Brewster, James Chosy, Terry Clark, Senator Richard Cohen, David Dines, Joseph Haj, Ann Marie Hanrahan, Todd Hartman, Matthew Hemsley, Diane Hofstede, David Hurrell, John Junek, Eric Kaler, Patrick Kennedy, Jay Kiedrowski, Jodee Kozlak, Suzanne Kubach, Brad Lerman, Helen Liu, Jennifer Melin Miller, Helen Meyer, David Moore, Wendy Nelson, Amanda Norman, Timothy Pabst, Anne Paape (Bjerken), Thomas M. Racciatti, Robert Rosenbaum, Ron Schutz, Tim Scott, Patricia Simmons, Lee Skold, Michael Solberg, Lisa Sorenson, Kenneth Spence III, Jim Stephenson, Steve Thompson, Tyler Treat, Steve Webster, Heidi Wilson, Sri Zaheer, Charles Zelle, Wayne Zink, Martha Atwater, Karen Bachman, David Cox, Bill George, Pierson Grieve, Polly Grose, Sally Pillsbury, Steve Sanger, Douglas Steenland, Mary Vaughan, Irving Weiser, Margaret Wurtele
Project Manager
First Name
Kathleen
Last Name
Kukielka
Organization Name
Guthrie Theatre Foundation AKA Guthrie Theater
Street Address
818 2nd St S
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Phone
(612) 225-6000
Email
kathyk@guthrietheater.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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msab@arts.state.mn.us
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