Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Recording and producing a high quality follow-up full length record by Red Mountain.
Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director for North Shore Music Association, writer; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music, University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter.
Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director for North Shore Music Association, writer; David Beard: Assistant Professor of writing studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Duluth Art Institute; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Kristina Estell: visual artist specializing in large-scale installations; Crystal Detlefsen: sound engineer, photographer, KUWS radio host; Summer Scharringhausen: program manager at MacRostie Art Center; Linda Grover: writer, instructor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
To showcase the abundance and diversity of musical talents in the Northland. I am driven to propel these carefully crafted compositions into quality works of art. I aim to invigorate the average consumer of music in Duluth to re-imagine the four piece band, and to broaden their taste for artfully crafted/ complicated compositions. I will create a record of such quality that it can be used as a model for other groups in the Northland. I will complete this project in three months: dedicating myself and managing the project to ensure its success. I will employ musicians’ talents respectfully while challenging them to innovate and push the envelope. I will stay strict to my budget and use additional funds for duplication. I will use the skills I learn to create continued works and other projects as well as propel my career as a composer. I will know I am successful at showcasing the abundance and diversity of musical talents in the Northland when I am collaborating with: Randy Lee (Big Time Jazz Band), Dave Butimer (Big Time Jazz Band), Al Sparhawk (Low), Paul Broman (Sweat Equity), Bryce Kastining (Nur Jehan Chishti), Matt Wasmund (Big Wave Dave and the Ripples), Jerree Small (Southwire), Matt Lateral (Zoo Animal), Matt Mobley (Coyote), Jeremy Ehlert (Low Forms), Charlotte Montgomery (Clover Street Cronies), Cory Coffman (Phillip of Nazereth), Grace Holden (Lizzo). I will know these compositions have been fully transformed into quality works of art by employing professionals to take care while tracking and producing them. To ensure that I am successful at finishing this project in my proposed timeline, I will work and plan diligently before recording. Compositions and recording techniques will be prepared before working with Bryce using demos created by me. This technique of using demos and composition planning will ensure the most efficient use of the recording engineer's time and ability, in turn maximizing the potential of our Arrowhead Regional Arts Council funded budget. As well as proper planning before, I will have a manageable fixed schedule with room for the flux of so many artists' schedules. I will be successful in staying to my budget by properly communicating contractual payment and scheduled time with all whose talents I employ.
Other, local or private