Artist Access Grants
Artist Access Grants
Support to fund the creation of a body of work exploring lighting elements in ceramic sculpture.
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.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My goal is to create a series of ceramic lighting sculptures based on my current body of work. I will experiment to discover the best forms, clay body, firing techniques and wiring techniques to create lamps, sconces and pendant lights that suit the aesthetic of my sculpture while being functional and easy to use. Through creating this body of work the outcome will be a deeper understanding of using lighting in sculptures, pushing my work in a unique direction from what is being shown in the area. My evaluation plan and method to measure the outcome is to show the completed series of lighting sculptures to my mentor Robin Murphy at the Duluth Art Institute, and discuss with her the form, function and reproducibility of each one, then decide which ones would be best to go into production on and use for getting gallery representation.
I created a series of ceramic lighting sculptures by experimenting in order to discover the best forms, clay body, firing techniques and lighting techniques to create lamps, sconces and pendant lights that suit the aesthetic of my sculpture while being functional and easy to use. I came away with a unique body of work and new techniques.