Arts Activities Support
Arts Are for Everyone
Funding for Arts Are for Everyone, providing up to 75 art classes in diverse art forms over a 12 week period. Classes will be held at the White Bear Center for the Arts beginning in December 2011.
Bart Buch: Puppet artist, Hinterhands Puppet Company; Jeff Hnilicka: Executive Director, Kulture Klub Collaborative; Jason Jaglo: Visual artist and graphic designer for Target Corporation; Janice Johnson: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts staff; Jonna Kosalko: Coldwell Banker Burnet; Elise Marubbio: Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Augsburg College; Libby Tschida: Arts administrator, East Side Arts Council.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
To engage more students in the creative arts; to inspire participants to explore and engage in life-long learning in the arts; to foster the exploration of independent creative activities and the enhanced ability to describe, interpret, and evaluate their own artwork and that of others.Student pre and post evaluations surveys; instructor feedback; repeat enrollment and frequency of participation; board member feedback.
131 classes were offered over a 12-week period; 30 instructors in multiple disciplines were engaged; 396 unique participants took classes; a total of 700 registrants participated; programming met a wide range of interests.
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