Artist Initiative

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Areca Roe
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
March 2016
End Date
February 2017
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview
Artist Initiative
Project Details
Roe will complete the photography for her project, “O Pioneer,” a series of fantastical landscapes. She will frame the work and exhibit the series in Minnesota.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher; Sean Dowse, Executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Music Coalition, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; David Glenn: Executive director of the Minnesota Project, ceramic artist; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Hillary Berg: Photographer; Arts Board grantee; Elizabeth Blair: Artist Initiative grantee in photography; professor at Southwest Minnesota State University; Luke Erickson: Photographer; consultant at Instinct Art Gallery; photo curator for the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography; Linda Gammell: Photographer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Peter Happel Christian: Photographer; Arts Board grantee; professor of integrated media at Saint Cloud State University; Suzanne Kosmalski: Installation artist and photographer; Arts Board grantee; Margaret Ojala: Photographer and professor of art, St Olaf College; Carrie Thompson: Studio manager for photographer Alec Soth; Arts Board grantee
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

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$100
Direct expenses
$10,100
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

I will exhibit the series O Pioneer in Minnesota. Exhibition of work and increased opportunities to display work. Number of people attending exhibitions and artist talks for the project. 2: I will complete my in-process series titled O Pioneer, for which I photograph constructed landscapes. Completion of the project. Number of completed images included in the series.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Areca Roe exhibited the series O Pioneer at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. Evaluation included completion of an exhibition of the series. Evaluation also includes number of people attending exhibitions and artist talks (though the attendance is a rough estimate). The artist was able to achieve the proposed outcomes by having an exhibition and engaging Minnesotans with her art. 2: Areca Roe successfully completed and framed the photographic series O Pioneer with fifteen final images included. Areca Roe planned to add six more large scale photographs to this series (each photo taking a few weeks to prepare), print and frame the images to get them ready for exhibition. She achieved this outcome.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Areca
Last Name
Roe
Organization Name
Areca Roe
State
MN
Phone
(651) 983-8863
Email
arecaroe@umn.edu
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
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