Quick Start Grants - Individuals
Quick Start Grants - Individuals
Community/Cooperative Traditional Scandinavian Wooden Boat Build
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director at North Shore Music Association, writer; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage
The goal is to build a traditional wooden boat with members of the community directly helping or observing. Further, the project seeks to connect people to Lake Superior with a Launching Celebration in late spring/early summer, including opportunities to get on the water. Then the boat will be shared at North House Folk Schools Wooden Boat Show. This boat will brought to life in a very visible downtown street level studio so passers-by will be able to see its on-going construction. And also experience its creation 'first-hand' by helping using hand woodworking tools. Materials will come from the local area and open discussion on the importance of sourcing things from the area. The project also necessitates the creation of specialized tools and infrastructure (e.g. a portable strongback, clamps, hewing benches, templates, jigs, etc.) which can be used indefinitely for future boat building projects in the area. My goal is to have this building project reach and inspire a diverse number of people in Duluth and the Great Lakes Region. It will have a public launching and then go on display at North House Folks Schools Wood Boat Celebration June 16, 2017.
We hand made a wooden boat with wood from the areas forest and local mills , many of the tools to build the boat , and all the nails to put it all together - with the eager participation of hundreds of volunteers from the community.
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