Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Weaving apprenticeship. Support to study weaving with accomplished fiber artist and teacher Carol Rajala Johnson.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; 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 Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Kristina Estell: visual artist, university fine arts instructor; Faith King: creative writer, visual artist, arts organization member; Karen McManus: musician, administrator at Mesabi Symphony Orchestra; Sarah Waddle: Program Manager for the North House Folk School, arts educator; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Through this apprenticeship with Carol Rajala Johnson, I hope to learn new weave structures, which may include structures such as summer and winter, shadow weave, deflected double weave, echo weave, etc. I also want to learn to weave on an eight-shaft loom and learn how to create weaving drafts. These skills will enrich my design process and expand my creativity. After completion of the apprenticeship, I will create a new body of work consisting of six pieces that use the new skills I learned during my apprenticeship. I will photograph my new body of work and identify which new skills they demonstrate through documentation. I will share my work with Carol Rajala Johnson in order for her to verify that I have demonstrated the skills and to give me any feedback or suggestions for further improvement.
-Six pieces created. -Four new weave structures learned (echo weave, huck lace, summer and winter, double weave). -One original draft created using FIberworks software.
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