Career Development Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
To create a dozen garments and four queen sized quilts for an exhibition this November at the Duluth Arts Institute. The apparel will be modeled by family and friends during the exhibitions opening night. The apparel will connect with the quilts which will create backdrops for them when they are worn and on display. With my new work, I seek to create excitement and interest within our community. I plan on promoting my work through social media, send out visual documentations of this work to other venues for show and to create interest amongst Swedish design firms which I have been in contact. Having an exhibition which brings smiles to people's faces and visual dialogue in regards to textile design is my goal. Modern Scandinavian design lives on and consumers of handmade modern design will find interest in my work. Having a visually changed exhibition, creating dialogue in regards to handmade textile and design, finding audiences within the community and beyond that appreciate my work and want to purchase it would be fantastic. Ultimately, to generate enough interest that I can be a full time artist would be the best of all outcomes.
Our exhibition was well received. The exhibition has been invited to travel to The Norway House in Minneapolis come May. We are waiting to hear about our show traveling to the Swedish Institute in Chicago. I was invited to be the premier artist at the Duluth Public Arts Councils unveiling of its Art and Culture Plan for the city. I believe that my work from this exhibition caught the eye of the commission which granted me the opportunity to create work for their reception.
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