Emergency Working Artist Project Grant FY21
Emergency Working Artist Project Grant FY21
Create a body of work focusing on sculptural wall pieces
Tara Makinen: former-Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Tammy Mattonen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; 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; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth
Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Laura Sellner: musician; Sarah Brokke Erickson: Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota Duluth, visual artist
ACHF Arts Access
My project to create a new body of work fits the funding goal of this project to "ensure sufficient resources to sustain the arts and artists" and would be part of a larger picture of sustaining myself and my work through this emergency. This funding will support my project goal to allow me to continue to grow as an artist while helping to sustain my creative work during these times. One advantage to exploring a new direction at this point in my career is that I already have a framework of practical knowledge and a working studio to support this new project. One of the gifts of the pandemic is the gift of time if my basic income can be covered as I create a new body of work. I have undertaken large, difficult and time consuming projects in the past and have worked relentlessly to meet deadlines and exceed expectations. I am skilled at both planning and executing projects. I have received ARAC grants before and always completed my requirements. The measure of success of this goal, to support a project that will allow me to continue to grow as an artist while helping to sustain my creative work during these times, is straightforward. If I can answer yes to the following questions, the project will be successful: Did this project allow me to continue to grow as an artist while helping to sustain my creative work during these times' Does this transition my work to an audience beyond those able to afford custom permanent projects' Does my body of work allow for shows' Does this work generate interest in connecting online? Does this contribute to my creative work by surviving the current circumstances' Did this allow time to work out the technical aspects of installing and mobility of the work?
This project allowed me to continue to grow as an artist by sustaining my creative work during that time. My goal to transition this body of work to an audience beyond those able to afford custom permanent projects was not entirely realized, however, progress was made in working out the feasibility of that goal. This body of work allows for shows, but in a limited way. The project allowed time to work out the technical aspects of installing and the mobility of the work. I have a 'mobile' body of work but it does not fit a gallery template, I still need a reinforced wall to install the work. Learning what my needs are in order to be able to share the work in a gallery (or anywhere outside of my studio) did steer me in a certain direction. I have ideas about possible next steps. This project contributed to my creative work by surviving the circumstances. I am still here, making work in my studio...barely. It's a very thin time, financially speaking.
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