Arts Project Grant
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Poetry Harbor
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
April 2012
End Date
March 2013
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
Project Overview
Writing workshops and poetry publication
Project Details
Present ten writing workshops and publish a book of poetry written by the participants.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Tony Kuznik: musician, retired president of Hibbing Community College; Rolf Anderson: choral and vocal music, retired high school vocal music instructor; Ken Bloom: Director, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota- Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Carina Ellis: instrumentalist, Master of Music Education degree; Peter Pestlozzi: furniture maker, instructor at North House Folk School, Grand Marais; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota- Duluth; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, and animator; Mary McGilligan: writer, published poet; Josh Aerie: cellist, orchestra conductor, college music instructor; Kathy Dodge: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program; Nancy Daley: hand paper maker and instructor at North House Folk School; Jeffrey Adams: published playwright and director of IceBox Radio Theater; Marcie McIntire: traditional beadwork Ojibwe artist, gallery owner and educator; Paula Brandel: art instructor Itasca Community College and visual artist; Gerard Sordelet: stage combat instructor, instrumentalist and media artist.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Tony Kuznik: musician, retired president of Hibbing Community College; Rolf Anderson: choral and vocal music, retired high school vocal music instructor; Ken Bloom: Director, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota- Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Carina Ellis: instrumentalist, Master of Music Education degree; Peter Pestlozzi: furniture maker, instructor at North House Folk School, Grand Marais; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota- Duluth; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, and animator; Mary McGilligan: writer, published poet; Josh Aerie: cellist, orchestra conductor, college music instructor; Kathy Dodge: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program; Nancy Daley: hand paper maker and instructor at North House Folk School; Jeffrey Adams: published playwright and director of IceBox Radio Theater; Marcie McIntire: traditional beadwork Ojibwe artist, gallery owner and educator; Paula Brandel: art instructor Itasca Community College and visual artist; Gerard Sordelet: stage combat instructor, instrumentalist and media artist.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
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 ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600
Other Funds Leveraged
$4,900
Direct expenses
$7,500
Number of full time equivalents funded
0
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
Local poets will provide life changing experience for people at the shelter/shelter participants will be able to tell their life story.Responses from participants will be examined by editorial staff to critique the experience. Number of participants in workshop and books sold.
Measurable Outcome(s)
Number of participants in the publication and selling of the books.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Recipient Board Members
Marshall T. Backen, Denise Sweet, Theodore Gephardt, Linda Wing
Project Manager
First Name
Patrick
Last Name
McKinnon
Organization Name
Poetry Harbor
Street Address
10 E 2nd St Apt 21
City
Duluth
State
MN
Zip Code
55802
Phone
(218) 722-4261
Email
p@poetrymotel.org
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