Career Development Grant

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,027

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Eun-Kyung Suh

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

February 2015

End Date

October 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Ramsey

Project Overview

Career Development Grant

Project Details

Collaborative art project with transracial adoptees. For this project, I will continue to investigate the experiences of transracial adoptees. Their complex identities of race, ethnicity and culture will be examined through a diasporic lens. Particularly, being adopted from Asia unveils the transracial adoption paradox; the contradictory experiences of being raised by Caucasian adoptive parents and perceived by family and friends as a Caucasian but later being viewed by society as an Asian. By exploring the emotional resonance of the adoptees’ diaspora, I would like to create two large-scale installation works, which will be exhibited at five solo shows.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth, Shannon Sweeney: stage manager for Duluth Playhouse and former production manager for the Minnesota Ballet; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, animator; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.

Conflict of Interest Contact

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Robert DeArmond (218) 722-0952

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,027

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,473

Direct expenses

$2,500

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

I would like to continue my investigation of transracial adoptees' diaspora experiences. For this series, I would like to create two large-scale installation works, which will be exhibited at five solo shows at the Chatham University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Artworks Gallery, Trenton, New Jersey, Metropolitan State University Gallery and Saint Catherine University Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota in 2015, respectively. The new installation works are invited for the solo exhibitions, which will be open to the public. These exhibitions will be mostly held at the university galleries such as the Portland Community College, Metropolitan State University, Chatham University, and Saint Catherine University in 2015. These institutions have served a multi-faceted mission; to support the arts within the curriculum and to provide educational opportunities for the local community through various outreach programs. Educational programs, workshops, class visits, and other public events will be held to engage not only faculty members and students, but also the public during the exhibition period to address adoptee issues.

Measurable Outcome(s)

I conducted three art exhibitions as proposed. "Torn from Home" at the Gordon Parks Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota, April 24 - July 23, "Diaspora" at the St Catherine, St Paul, Minnesota September - October 21, 2015 and "Diaspora-Past and Present" at the Main Gallery, Artworks, Trenton, New Jersey, September 9 - October 3, 2015. All of the opening receptions and artist talks were well attended.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Eun-Kyung

Suh

Eun-Kyung Suh

(218) 591-5868

suh1021@hotmail.com

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