Arts Access
ACHF Arts Access
Iraqi-American participants produce and Iraqi-American audiences view a documentary about their community; Iraqis plan future arts programming with IARP. Success is a high quality, completed short documentary, as well as a new, community-directed strategic vision for Iraqi Voices. We will track audience of the finished film and an independent evaluator will assess the strategic vision of the group. 2: We provide a free, yearlong arts lab to participants who would otherwise face economic, language, and cultural barriers. Post-project interviews of each participant by an independent evaluator will include specific questions about these barriers and how well they were addressed.
New Iraqi-Americans produced and Iraqi-American audiences viewed a documentary about their community; Iraqis plan future arts programming. Measure of success was a high quality, completed short documentary film. Evaluation methods included in-depth interviews by an outside evaluator with the participants, staff and artists and survey feedback from the audience. The outside evaluator also observed film work meetings and public events. A second outcome was for the Iraqi community to plan the future of Iraqi Voices. The outside evaluator observed the process of the conversations and communicated regularly with IARP on the progress. 2: We provided a free, yearlong arts lab to participants who would otherwise face economic, language, and cultural barriers. The outside evaluator who assessed the outcomes of the project in previous years, continued to evaluate this project this year. Her ongoing familiarity with the progress of the project over the years helped to identify subtle changes and indicators of real or perceived barriers to participation. The evaluator spent time in one on one conversation with the participants, and sat in on community conversation sessions to observe.
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