Art Project
Art Project
Dawson-Boyd Children's Musical
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Lauren Carlson: poetry, film, COMPAS roster artist, Dept. of Public Transformation board; Carisa Clarke: graphic design/web development, arts volunteer, board member DAC of Murray County; Lisa Hill: musician, Crow River Singers, attorney; Greg Jodzio: photography/design, Hutchinson Center for the Arts board, Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; Anna Johanssen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Brett Lehman: musician, social worker; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Jeff Iverson, music, theater, education; Georgette Jones, theater, education, SMAC Board; Maureen Keimig, theater, Michele Sterner, theatre, SMAC Board; Sheila Tabaka, theater, education; John Voit, music, theater, education; Erica Volkir, theater, SMAC Board.
ACHF Arts Education
1: "Regional residents experience increased access to the arts via a reduction in geographic, cultural and/or physical barriers." Having a local theatre production will greatly increase access for students as many of them would not travel out of the area for children's musical theatre. The children at School Age Child Care would especially not be able to travel elsewhere, as they are at childcare for the day. Having the theatre production in the same building as the childcare, greatly increases their opportunity for participation. 2: "Regional residents experience a change in knowledge, attitude, behavior or condition due to public art, arts festivals or arts events." Besides children learning about musical theatre in the last two productions we put on, parents learn too about costuming, hair and makeup, publicity, and backstage tasks during the rehearsals and productions.hey also learned to help with preparing their children with practice of songs and memorizing lines at home. 3: "The capacity of those providing arts experiences is increased or strengthened by changing, expanding, or enriching the ways in which they connect to their communities through the arts." Whenever a production of this type is offered, the adult artists in charge learn so much. As we produce more musical theatre, adults working with the students have become more experienced which enables us to have adults to hire that are local and are experienced at their jobs. Children's learning we will document through Pre and Post Rubric worksheets. Other ways to document successful goals are through ticket sales and adult participation counts in rehearsals and production times. Anecdotal documentation will be noted from adults.
The main outcomes were students learning new vocabulary about the theater and understanding theater-specific terms, developing their acting confidence with singing and dancing on stage, and allow students to have creative control and input on their performance. The pre- and post-survey results indicate that the students did not know much or anything about theater before the program. Afterwards, the student surveys showed growth in the following specific areas: how to memorize lines, stay in character, to speak and sing loudly (projection), how to use expression, and how to recover if you make a mistake on stage,
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