Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
The artist will create and self-publish an artist's book about the Mississippi River that integrates the artist's photographs and narrative text.
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.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre.
Melissa Borman: Photographer; faculty at Century College; Donald Clark: Professor of photography, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Tia Gardner: Visual artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar; Gregory Harp: Photographer; Jon Solinger: Photographer; Arts Board grantee; Gary Wahl: Photographer, sculptor, and restaurant developer
ACHF Arts Access
The artist will create and self-publish an artist's book about the Mississippi River that integrates the artist's photographs and narrative text. Create conversations about the process with members of the photo and art communities, as well as a workshop about sense of place for a senior community program at the Hennepin County Library. 2: Create marketing materials and mailers to promote the book. The creation of the artist's book will support the artist's more recent career direction of integrating photographs and text. The goal is to develop wider exposure to the artists photographic work through greater efforts to promote it.
Linda Gammell experienced significant creative and professional growth through knowledge gained from the process of self-publishing a limited-edition. The artist learned about collaborating with a printing lab, preparing scans, creating book signatures, working with a bookbinder and with writer/editors, securing rights from publishers, and preparing the book for public exhibition and collection. 2: The general public and other art professionals learned about the creative process of creating a self-published photo book by attending Art A Whirl ann. The artist created an in-person studio event in her art studio for the general public to view the book, see her creative process in an exhibition of print pages, as well as a slide loop highlighting the process.