Organizations Filed Purposes:
Totem Star supports a diverse community of young recording artists learning music and life skills through mentorship and meaningful relationships. Our work in the studio and on the stage fosters growth in collaboration, leadership, and self-identity.
The Studio - Weekly after school open studio with workstations and recording resources for five to six youth at a time. Many youth bring in peer collaborators for their sessions. The small group structure allows for close mentorship opportunities for youth from teaching artists and full access to audio engineering equipment. Youth sign up for studio times on their own to encourage independent planning and organization. Studio sessions are quickly filled each week, demonstrating our youth's ongoing interest and dedication to their creative work.
Partnerships - As a tenant of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in Southwest Seattle, Totem Star is able to reach some of the most diverse, vulnerable communities of youth in our region. Totem star secured a successful partnership with Beacon Academy (an alternative high school for young women as part of Seattle Public Schools) in the 2018-2019 school year. Through this partnership, students fulfill their arts credit requirement for graduation through participation in our core programs. In 2020, we held a partnerships with Seattle Skills Center to a class in audio production.
Artist Booking - Continuing a successful initial run of artist booking in 2017 through 2019, we partnered with many venues and organizations in 2020 to provide youth performers for their events. Our youth are always paid for live performances, and they gain professional experience, both as performers and as independent contractors. In 2020, we booked 52 Totem Star Artists for 13 paid gigs at local community events. Artist booking is an opportunity to change the narrative on how the work and time of artists, especially young artists, is valued. We hope that our approach to always paying artists fairly for their work and time will make waves throughout the community.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Daniel Pak | Executive Director | 30 | $64,078 |
| Maria Ewing | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Krista Welch | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Mitchell | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Brian Myers | Board Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Shawna Angelou | Board Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Wendy Simmons | Board Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Jon Stone | Board Chair | 2 | $0 |
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