Quick Start Grants

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$603

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Michael K. Lambertson AKA Kerry Lambertson

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

December 2016

End Date

January 2017

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Cook

Project Overview

Quick Start Grants

Project Details

Acoustic Guitar Building Course at North House Folk School

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; 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; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2017 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$603

Other Funds Leveraged

$577

Direct expenses

$1,180

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

My goal with this project is to gain a firm foundation in the principles of acoustic guitar construction. The course is aimed specifically towards that end and one very tangible measure of success will be the production of a finished guitar by the course's end. I also intend to produce a set of detailed notes on the process with a focus on specialized jigs and tools that are used. The strongest measure of the project's success will be the completion of a parlor guitar per the course description. However, after the course is complete, I intend to go on to outfit my shop with tools and jigs that become familiar with during the course, and to continue to produce guitars and other instruments.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Over the course of this project, I was able to construct an acoustic guitar based on a 1918 C.F. Martin design under the tutelage of master guitar builder David Seaton. I both completed the guitar and learned in depth the process of guitar construction, as well as general information about musical instrument construction, and produced a detailed set of notes and drawings on the process to be referred to in future instrument making endeavors.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Kerry

Lambertson

Kerry Lambertson

(804) 229-7842

k_lambertson@yahoo.com

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