Arts Activities Support
Arts Activities Support
Funding for INK, a two-day spoken word festival including participatory workshops, and performances from local and national artists. The festival is created and run by a cohort of local spoken word artists and will be held during April 2017 in multiple lo
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Jill Anfang: Roseville Parks and Recreation Program Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher and performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair El Arco Iris; Anthony Galloway: Actor, storyteller, West Metro Education Program; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Heather Barringer: Artistic, administration, finance; Delta Giordano: Artistic, volunteerism, education; Elena Gianetti: Artistic, administration, youth programming; Nieeta Presley: Administration, Community Education, organizational development; Julia Brown: Administration, artistic; Barbara LaValleur: Artistic, volunteerism, fundraising, administration; Kate Tucker: Administration, fundraising, education; Andy Sturdevant: Artistic, organizational development, administration.
ACHF Arts Access
We hope to engage 300-500 participants in a variety of activities including, workshops, discussions and performances over the course of the festival. We hope to engage current and new practitioners of Spoken Word and build a stronger network not only for Saint Paul but the entire metro area. We will use surveys for participants, performers and facilitators and also ask for post-performance feedback and follow up with facilitators after workshops and sessions.
Not applicable. A number of factors kept us from completing this project so we did not achieve the artistic goals. We worked on planning the event and creating a marketing plan for it. This included creating a logo, mapping out a website, talking to potential venues about space, researching national and local acts, sketching out potential workshops, interviewing for an assistant festival manager, etc. We also continued to work on fundraising. In the fall of 2016, I took a break from planning INK to go on tour. Unfortunately, a number of things went wrong, including the tour venues not paying me. With tour expenses to pay and no income from it, I had to focus on things other than INK. To further complicate matters, the original fundraising plan was to use a $20,000 Knight Foundation grant that we got and $20,000 in matching dollars to run the festival. This grant from Metropolitan Regional Arts Council made up $10,000 of the match. We also received $3,000 from the Lowertown Fund and small contributions from individuals. We had trouble raising the rest of the match, so had to forfeit all of the $20,000 Knight grant. With not enough funding and running out of time, we decided we could not complete the project. We were not able to reach the intended audience.
Other, local or private