Community Arts Learning Grant
Community Arts Learning Grant
Fire and Clay Project to increase skill, knowledge and confidence level of Range SoHo artists.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist
Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Richard Hansen: Executive Director, Duluth Superior Film Festival; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Karissa Isaacs: curator of Tweed Museum at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goal of the Project is to educate, expand knowledge, increase the ability of 34 artists with disabilities to fire and work with clay. The first project for the 34 student artists will be to create a 9' assembled piece, incorporating a minimum of 3 new elements/techniques, and choosing between narrative and abstract expressionism of their beliefs and history of "Life in Minnesota". The 2nd project is "Artists choice". Throughout the project, the artists will be actively involved in all processes: constructing, glazing, loading, firing a gas conversion kiln and peer teaching community groups. Critique will be 1:1, peer, and the community providing feedback during various stages of the project. Artists will create a minimum of two projects and have individual measurable artistic goals that will be documented daily. (See attachment). Artists will brainstorm prior to creating their art project, using pictures and key descriptive words, to plan their "Life in Minnesota" and Artist Choice projects. Projects will encompass a minimum of three elements and techniques of assembling, decorative slips, layering clay. Artists will demonstrate the basic techniques of hand-building and/or the use of the potter's wheel; and will teach community members. Critique will be 1;1, peer, small groups,and community during wet clay, leather hard, bisque and glazing.
Every Artist were asked to complete two projects. The first project was what the Artist believed Life in Minnesota the second was Artist Choice. Every artist used three elements and techniques to assembling and decorating which was documented on daily using short term goals by So ho staff. Artists used drawings, discussions, and memories from there past to determine the nature of ceramic piece, Critique were given at several intervals throughout the process the first was done prior to getting clay, then several times throughout the clay process and then a final critique when the piece is completely done, to review the colors and type of firing picked. Two Artists taught community members the basic skills in handbuilding ceramics two afternoons a week for six weeks. Art Instructor came in and cotaught community members who were interested in throwing on the wheel, and firing process.
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