Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Write On: Serenity Schoonover will write four writing pieces for submission and possible publication, and, in partnership with the Duluth Public Library, facilitate five workshop events for youth writers, ages 10-18
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Karen Savage-Blue: visual artist; Karen McManus: musician, administrator at Mesabi Symphony Orchestra; Sarah Waddle: program manager for the North House Folk School, arts educator; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The goal and measurable outcomes for this project are the following- Write On: Creation and Community Project will provide funding for writer, Serenity Schoonover, 1) in the creation and submission of four creative non-fiction writing pieces (between 300-3000 words) for possible publication, and, 2) in partnership with the Duluth Public Library system, develop and facilitate four free-of-charge community writing workshops and one capstone event (literary product or public presentation) for young writers, ages 10-18. Write On: Creation and Community Project is a two-fold project involving "creation" and "community." The "creation" component is that funding from the grant will provide wages for me to spend an intentional season developing my short form creative non-fiction writing (memoir, lyric essay, essay, book review, among others). I will measure if I've been successful by the submission of four creative writing pieces (300-3000 words) to literary journals, ezines, chapbook or similar periodical, by the end of the grant season. The "community" component of this project is that funding from the grant will provide wages for me to prepare and lead four community writing workshop and one capstone event (literary product or public presentation) for young writers, ages 10-18. I will measure success by whether I've prepared my lesson objectives (*) (see below), carried out my prepared lessons in each workshop, facilitated these workshops to the library's satisfaction, and provided a communal event for interested writers to present their work as a capstone presentation (either in some form of literary product, or as a public presentation). (*) Lesson objectives for the workshops are as follows: Workshops will be on a monthly basis: December 2019, January 2020, February 2020, March 2020, with a capstone event in April 2020. Each monthly workshop 'cycle' will include a two-hour workshop prep time, two-hour workshop class time, two hour office hour/ write-in session, and four hour available digital office hours.
Measurable outcomes for this project are as follows, per my outcomes outlined in my grant proposal application: 1) I submitted four pieces of creative writing for publication during the grant season. I have heard back from two of these submissions and both will receive publication, one in Split Rock Review and one in The Bookends Review. 2)I received verbal confirmation from meeting with Heidi Harrison of the Duluth Public Library that she believed the Write On workshops were a success on March 5th and through a subsequent email confirmation March 19. 3) I made preparations for a communal event for students to participate in, but there no writers signed up for this event and the library cancelled it (it also coincided with the COVD-19 outbreak and would have been cancelled had anyone signed up). 4)I successfully completed my planned workshop cycle in Dec '19, Jan'20, Feb'20 and March '20, in regards to prep, instruction, office hours, and digital availability. My overall assessment of this experience was that it was a valuable learning experience for all involved.
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