Artist Equity
Artist Equity
Wowicakekage - Dakota Art Encoded II
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Michele Huggins: Granite Area Arts Council treasurer and volunteer, member of the Artisan Grain Collaborative, founding member of ACHALA; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Janine Teske: music, theater, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school board; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Cheniqua Johnson, theater, music; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson, visual art, SMAC board; Michele Knife Sterner, theater, SMAC board; John Sterner, visual art, education; Joyce Tofte, music; Esmeralda Ziemer, film
ACHF Arts Access
My goal is to continue my exploration of sonograph and spectrogram technology for producing innovative Dakota digital art and design. I will also be working to curate a visual library of Dakota designs in order to experiment and ?train? AI programs to produce additional bodies of digital works. My personal artistic goals are to create new digital works, designs, and methodologies without losing the encoded meanings, teachings, and stories that are inherent to Dakota design and methodology. This project will meet my needs for resources, time, and inspiration to explore new medium and public engagement through an engagement of traditional and digital art. Additionally, this grant would also provide the much needed resource of time to commit to exploring the methodology and practice of Dakota art in a digital space. In my practice, I generally consult and request feedback from two elder/mentors that I have apprenticed under, as well as three peers that have been formative in my traditional arts practice. I plan to engage with these colleagues during the grant period, both in discussing the methodological underpinnings of Dakota art, in exploring my own practice and design, and in feedback on created digital work. I will be journaling and documenting my own progress and practice through the use of a creative ?bullet-journal,? which is already a part of my creative and personal practice.
Through this project I grew in my determination to finish it, setting goals and objectives to be able to do it. I had an impact in front of family, friends and other people who admired my work. Now more people know about my talent, and I am infinitely grateful for that. I have a broader audience and and getting new works of art to do. I gained self-confidence and experience. This grant helped me show my talents and my artistic way of expressing myself. The changes based on this project continue to happen day after day.
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