Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant for Organizations
Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant for Organizations
Gathering Harmonious Energy
Justin Holley: Author; Natalie Grosfield: Musician, actor; Joseph Allen: Professor of Art, photographer, traditional Native crafts artist; Jill Johnson: Author, musician; Sandra Roman: Art teacher, author; Gayle Highberg: Painter; Lowell Wolff: Photographer; Jane Merschman: K-12 teacher, actor, director; Mary Hilbrand: Musician; Joanne Kellner: Arts administrator, puppeteer.
Justin Holley: Author; Natalie Grosfield: Musician, actor; Joseph Allen: Professor of Art, photographer, traditional Native crafts artist; Jill Johnson: Author, musician; Sandra Roman: Art teacher, author; Gayle Highberg: Painter; Lowell Wolff: Photographer; Jane Merschman: K-12 teacher, actor, director; Mary Hilbrand: Musician; Joanne Kellner: Arts administrator, puppeteer.
ACHF Arts Access
Workshop participants learn more about the creative process, especially designing, creating and implementing an outdoor mural. Participants gain confidence to express and create through art. Living wall increases viewer's sense of connection with art installation and the arts as creative expression. Living wall awakens connection to place and to others, and affects their external relationship to their community. Difference between views and experience per direct and indirect engagement. Pre and post-surveys assess levels of learning on mural art during workshops and help measure confidence gained. QR code on installation invites public comment and answers to questions on sense of connection and ideas on art; compare these to similar questions for those directly engaged to assess differences on impact from direct vs indirect engagement. Similar process to determine connection to place and community; add video interviews for deeper insight (levels of impact - direct vs indirect).
Project increased understanding of art and creative process. Overwhelming theme was Community. Participatory element added value and interest in community art making. We gathered info via post-event surveys, random interviews, Survey Monkey to people in and outside area/directly and indirectly involved in project. We analyzed written response via Wordle to identify themes. Finally, we included a QR code on a brochure for Harmony Coop to collect public comments from short video.
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