Artist Access Grants (INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS ONLY)
Artist Access Grants (INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS ONLY)
Antique Camera Repair - Proposal for Machinery and Tooling to Expand Shop.
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; 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.
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
My ultimate goal with is to acquire the proposed machinery and tooling in order to expand the capability of my work. Increasing my shops repair potential and efficiency will let me to process larger jobs at a much faster rate, allowing for continued growth of my business. It will also permit me to complete otherwise impossible jobs or replace parts that are un-replaceable. Immediate demonstration of the impact this equipment has will be shown by producing a specific wrench used by repair technicians in the 1940's, on my own cost of time and material investment. By reproducing this wrench my hope is to give current camera users a proper non-destructive method of servicing their own cameras and expanding the impact I personally have on reviving cameras by allowing them to be used for another generation. I will know I have been successful if when I have a milling machine sitting on my workbench and a new wrench ready to supply the niche community I'm involved in. The milling machine itself will provide my business an endless amount of small successes. It is really an investment that has quite a long term and exponential impact on both my own work and the history of these cameras.
Through the opportunity given to me with this grant, I managed to purchase and set up a milling machine and related tooling in my shop. The additional proof-of-concept project of a T-handled wrench was quite successful and I created a short run of prototypes.