Career Development Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
To complete Three Rivers, my new creative work in a community of established writers and artists and use the manuscript to create a live performance/installation by June 1, 2016. To explore my artistic heritage and cultural themes and further develop intermedia skills with presentation of poetry. To leverage the recent publications and exhibitions to gain more opportunities, find new ways to advance my work, and to increase my network of international artistic connections. To advance my writing career by publication and presentation. Outcomes: 1. Attend the Enter Text Arteles Residency in Hameenkyro, Finland to exchange ideas, collaborate, and present work. 2. Expand my network of artistic connections. 3. Explore Finnish culture, history, and migration. 4. Complete Three Rivers, a manuscript of narrative poems and strengthen my presentation in live performance and installation. 5. Present Three Rivers in a performance/installation by June 1, 2016. 1. Complete work on a new writing project, Three Rivers, that draws from Minnesota history and Finnish culture. 2. Participate in the 30 day residency Enter Text at Arteles in Finland in November 2015 to exchange ideas regarding new work. Collaborate with artists regarding performance and presentation. 3. Write weekly blog entries during November to document the residency experience. 4. Meet in person with my current writing connections in Helsinki, composer Ollie Kortekangas and writer Tiina Pystynen, to discuss projects underway. 5. Complete a full poetry manuscript (about 75 pages). 6. Present Three Rivers in a performance/installation by June 1, 2016.
1. I developed the poetry manuscript, Three Rivers, that draws from Minnesota history and Finnish culture. 2. I traveled to Finland and participated in the 30 day residency Enter Text at Arteles November 2015. While there, I participated in weekly dialogues with the resident artists and also presented poems at a poetry reading in Hameenkyro. 3. I set up the Three Rivers blog to gather my observations and encounters with Finnish culture, writing, and art. 4. I met with composer Ollie Kortekangas and writer Tiina Pystynen, to discuss projects underway. 6. I presented poetry from the Three Rivers manuscript in a five readings.
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