Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Cedar Point Artist Residency and Wind River Range Exploration : New Work Research and Development
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; 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.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Paula Gudmundson: Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, flutist; Walt Raschick: music director at KUWS; Judy Budreau: writer and editor; Jeffrey Kalstrom: sculptor and printmaker, Professor of Fine Art at University of Minnesota-Duluth.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My work begins with exploring, discovering, and coming to know a place. My desire to make work stems from my love of landscape and my immersion into it. The work I create is reflective of both of these things. My goals for this Artist Residency at Cedar Point Biological Station and Wind River Range Research are: 1) Explore/examine two "new" landscapes to develop a new body of work centered on these places. 2) Spend time drawing and photographing the sites I visit for in-studio source material that I can use to further refine the artistic quality of my animations and bring the color and abstraction of sky into my animations. 3) Meet with researchers studying the same landscape but through a different lens so that a new body of work can be informed by multiple ways of knowing. 4) Develop communication and connections with those researchers that can continue into the future and bring forth future projects. 5) Put together an exhibition of the field drawings this September in Laramie. I spend considerable time evaluating opportunities. As a working artist I must continually leverage opportunity with feasibility and cost. In thinking about these two opportunities, I have been able to identify what is possible as well as beneficial to my work, and know that I can do them. Taking the time to immerse in landscape and draw and photograph will provide rich source material; being in a social environment of the biological station will give opportunity to interact with the other researchers. All of it will provide the necessary source and most importantly inspiration for new work. I can measure these goals by: 1) Returning home with a book full of notes and field drawings from the landscapes I study. 2) Returning home with several hundred photographs that will provide additional source information for my studio drawings. 3) Keeping a journal of the interactions and conversations I have with the scientist and researchers I will meet there. 4) Getting contact information from everyone I interact with to initiate communication upon returning home. 5) Leaving drawings for Colleen to put into a September Laramie exhibition.
I explored through field study two "new" landscapes (Ogallala, Nebraska and the Paradise Basin near Fort Washakie, Wyoming) from which I will create of a new body of artwork - I returned to Badlands National Park, the site of my long-standing project, "site: Sage Creek", and continued field studies of more terrain there - I filled two drawing sketch books with land studies from these locations - I took over 1000 photos and recorded video in these sites - I made a connection with Jon Garbisch, Geologist and Director of Cedar Point Biological station - I made a connection with an artist and naturalist from Omaha, Nebraska - I learned how to do a transect of a GPS point and count plants for Colleen Friday's Plant inventory -- helpful and informative to my grassland drawings - I made new color paintings while at Cedar Point -- my hand-drawn work has been almost entirely black and white for ten years.
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