Quick Start Grants
Quick Start Grants
Support needed for design opportunity with Children of the Wild Theatre Ensemble's The Wastelands.
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, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; 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 Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
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I will earn design credit as a Duluth based artist for a unique outdoor performance across the Saint Croix River in Wisconsin with an exciting new Minneapolis based theatre group, Children of the Wild (CotW). I will embellishing the outdoor farm settings with set/props/costumes/makeup for the last incarnation of The Wastelands at Philadelphia Community Farm, a CSA and retreat center. This will confirm my design commission for the next CotW show in the cycle, The Garden. This activity will increase and drive new regional audiences to my own artist website, the redesign of which will debut in the next month. I will also design and build a series of papier-mache, burlap, and wire sculptures illustrating seven deadly sins/stages of grief for this production. CotW will bring these seven sculptures to Duluth when they perform at All Souls Night on Nov, 4th at the Depot. My art will be on display until Dec 1st as part of the Duluth Art Institute's The Art of Grief exhibit. My design work will be exhibited and critiqued by the CotW theatre ensemble as well as audience members for the Wastelands and the DAI's Art of Grief. Photos and a link my new website will be added their website: childrenofthewild.org My new website maryplaster.com (debuting in August) will be listed on the program increasing my online visibility and name recognition in Minnesota and Wisconsin. This opportunity will lead to more work with Children of the Wild, Philadelphia Community Farm, and likely more commissions and measurable sales of my own online products.
I earned design credit as a Duluth based artist for a unique outdoor performance across the St Croix river in Osceola, Wisconsin with the exciting new Minneapolis based theatre group, Open Flame Theatre (fka Children of the Wild). I embellished outdoor farm settings with set/props/costumes/makeup for an incarnation of The Wastelands at Philadelphia Community Farm, a CSA and retreat center. This activity introduced regional audiences to my newly redesigned artist website. It deepened my relationship with the company and farm. I designed/built a series of papier-mache and wire sculptures illustrating seven deadly sins/stages of grief for the production. These works went on to installation displays at Barebones Puppets Halloween Extravaganza at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul. Two of them were then installed at All Souls Night on Nov, 4th at the Depot. The stages of Denial and Bargaining will be on display until Dec 1st as part of Duluth Art Institute's The Art of Grief exhibit.
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