Quick Start Grants

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$603
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Kathleen A. McTavish AKA Kathy McTavish
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
October 2016
End Date
February 2017
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
Pine
Lake
Hennepin
St. Louis
Pine
Lake
Hennepin
Project Overview
Quick Start Grants
Project Details
To purchase two monitors to exhibit work at the Duluth Art Institute's Arrowhead Biennial
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
No
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
$437
Direct expenses
$1,040
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Goal: Successfully implement a two-part version of my work "br1Nk ::: st1tch" in the luminous context of two monitors at the Duluth Art Institute's Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition. For me code is a distilled text with the power to activate itself. Code is a choreography, a score, an orchestration. The inter-machine, polyphonic dynamics of a networked art piece requires at least two displays. I most often exhibit my work through multi-channel projections with a companion mobile component (accessible through pa

Measurable Outcome(s)

My new media work br1Nk: st1tch was part of the Duluth Art Institute's Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition that ran from November 10, 2016 through February 9, 2017. This juried show draws artists from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan and Ontario. I used the funds from ARAC to purchase two chromebase all-in-one computers and two wall mount kits to exhibit my multi-threaded, browser-based work. br1Nk: st1tch was awarded the 3rd place Juror's prize. The new equipment allowed me to explore a new installation method for future work.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Kathleen
Last Name
McTavish
Organization Name
Kathleen A. McTavish AKA Kathy McTavish
State
MN
Phone
(218) 343-7998
Email
kathy@cellodreams.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

424 West Superior Street, Suite 104
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone
Project Manager: Rebecca Graves
218-722-0952
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