Emergency Working Artist Project Grant FY21

The industry my business is in is dedicated to providing for other artists. Through the turbulent past months many artists across many mediums have experienced hardship. Although I am confident in the resilience of the community and industry that I am part of, the sustainability of my business requires reliable income. This project will both provide a reliable source of income until completion, upon which the resale value of the cameras can provide my business with furthered opportunity. My work as cited in my prior grant proposal states my abilities to see long term and large scale projects to completion with prior commissioned camera builds consuming over 300 hours for just one camera. Upon completion of the Artist Access Grant, I continued to progress my shops abilities and am now manufacturing an array of parts and tools that were only fantasy prior to owning a milling machine. Every facet of this project is well within my normal daily operations and intended to demonstrate a combination of my skills and manufacturing capabilities as well as artistic taste. Although receiving the project grant itself will provide me temporary income, I will know I have completed this project when I have the proposed camera project done before the deadline. The resale price of the cameras could potentially sustain me for several more months beyond project completion.