Artist Access Grants
Artist Access Grants
Support needed for small business branding photographer to take artistic career to the next level.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; 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; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center. Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
I plan to achieve the following goals and outcomes in the time period of this activity: -Enroll in workshops -Create a professional and exceptional portfolio -Increase social platform activity by 15% -Increase project efficiency with software -Solicit feedback from two mentor photographers. I will evaluate the successful achievement of these outcomes by: -Complete Posing and Photographer Guide workshops, and apply methods to all new clients -Create three personal campaigns demonstrating artistic range for portfolio purposes -Track number of increase in followers and views -Track current base project timeline against future project timelines with the addition of new software -Meet with mentors at least twice for professional feedback.
My artistic goals for this project were to: -Enroll in workshops -Create a professional and exceptional portfolio -Increase social platform activity by 15% -Increase project efficiency with software -Solicit feedback from two mentor photographers I achieved these goals by the following outcomes: -Both workshops were completed and applied methods to all new clients -I created three concept shoots that I used to portray artistic range for portfolio purposes. All of the shoots can be seen on my website and instagram page. (fuelyourfocus.myportfolio.com) -Views on posted photos went from 91 to 464, followers on page went from 120 to 251 -Uploading and culling images went from 1.5 hrs or more to 30-45 minutes depending on the project. -Met with two mentors via online and in person, gained written feedback from them via google docs to use for tracking progress.
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