Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,500

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra

Recipient Type

Non-Profit Business/Entity

Status

Completed

Start Date

September 2011

End Date

March 2012

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Blue Earth

Brown

Faribault

Jackson

Le Sueur

Martin

Nicollet

Redwood

Sibley

Waseca

Project Overview

Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra

Project Details

They will present four concerts for their 2011-12 season.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Denice Evers: retired teacher, and volunteer with Springfield Community Theater; Mary Jane Glawe: visual artist; Sara Krassin: arts administrator for the Childrens' Museum of Southern Minnesota; Joe McCabe: St. James City Manager, volunteers with the St. James Community Theater; Mary Motter: 5th grade teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary, arts volunteer; Pat Potzler: retired teacher, singer in the Minnesota Valley Sweet Adelines; Lill Robinson: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Blue Earth Community Theater; Paula Scheffler: substitute teacher in LeSueur; Melanie Schmidt: high school speech coach, Program Director for Mankato Community Education; Bonnie Taplin: volunteer with the Interlaken Heritage Days Festival; Elizabeth Traxler: teacher, playwright, director; Gina Wenger: professor of Art Education at Minnesota State University; Greg Wilkins: Director of Student Activities at Minnesota State University.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Denice Evers: retired teacher, and volunteer with Springfield Community Theater; Mary Jane Glawe: visual artist; Sara Krassin: arts administrator for the Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota; Joe McCabe: St. James City Manager, volunteers with the St. James Community Theater; Mary Motter: 5th grade teacher at Eagle Lake Elementary, arts volunteer; Pat Potzler: retired teacher, singer in the Minnesota Valley Sweet Adelines; Lill Robinson: retired Language Arts teacher, volunteer with the Blue Earth Community Theater; Paula Scheffler: substitute teacher in LeSueur; Melanie Schmidt: high school speech coach, Program Director for Mankato Community Education; Bonnie Taplin: volunteer with the Interlaken Heritage Days Festival; Elizabeth Traxler: teacher, playwright, director; Gina Wenger: professor of Art Education at Minnesota State University; Greg Wilkins: Director of Student Activities at Minnesota State University.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access

2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$6,500

Other Funds Leveraged

$12,350

Direct expenses

$18,850

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

To prepare and present concerts with new, challenging music and assist student musicians to grow in their musical skills. To increase audience attendance by 10% at concerts. To increase community awareness of the youth orchestra through marketing and outreach into new venues.An evaluation form similar to last year will be used. Students will be surveyed at the end of the season and audiences will be surveyed at the spring concert. There will be a self-assessment by the organization to determine if they expanded their marketing and outreach.

Measurable Outcome(s)

They prepared and presented concerts with new, challenging music and assisted student musicians to grow in their musical skills. They increased audience attendance by 10% at concerts. They increased community awareness of the youth orchestra through marke

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Recipient Board Members

Joseph Rodgers, Eleda Morneau, Roslyn Sieh, Ken Meixner, Mark Wamma, Rebecca Henry, Lisa Hill

Project Manager

Roslyn

Sieh

Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra

PO Box 4311

Mankato

56002-4311