Quick Start Grant
Quick Start Grant
Rock Bottom in the Age of Extreme Resource Extraction!
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; 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 Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota Duluth; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Prøve Gallery seeks to host an artist's talk and display of graphics designed by the Beehive Design Collective, a non-profit artist collective that creates collaborative and interdisciplinary ("cross-pollinated") designs to be used as educational and organizational tools, particularly surrounding issues of environmentalism and the effects of globalization. This is a collective whose work aligns with the goals of Prøve Collective in using art to educate and empower communities. While the collective has been on touring hiatus for the past couple of years, one of the artists reached out to us to see if we'd be interested in hosting an artist's talk event and showcase of recent designs. Our goal is to host the Beehive Collective members for a presentation, entitled “Rock Bottom” in the Age of Extreme Resource Extraction! compensate them for travel and expenses, and to hold a community conversation about environmental justice and resource ethics. Our evaluation plan for this event includes an attendance number of at least 50 individuals, including participants from local stakeholder organizations, like Duluth for Clean Water, American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO), Sierra Club, and even some local and regional elected officials (to whom we will issue directed invitations). We hope that this event will serve as an effective means of connecting these organizations with the Beehive Collective as organizations working with similar objectives. We will collect feedback from individuals from these organizations to help our board evaluate the success of the event.
Prove Gallery seeks to host an artist's talk and display of graphics designed by the Beehive Design Collective, a non-profit artist collective that creates collaborative and interdisciplinary ("cross-pollinated") designs to be used as educational and organizational tools, particularly surrounding issues of environmentalism and the effects of globalization. This is a collective whose work aligns with the goals of Prove Collective in using art to educate and empower communities. While the collective has been on touring hiatus for the past couple of years, one of the artists reached out to us to see if we'd be interested in hosting an artist's talk event and showcase of recent designs. Our goal is to host the Beehive Collective members for a presentation, entitled ROCK BOTTOM in the Age of Extreme Resource Extraction!, compensate them for travel and expenses, and to hold a community conversation about environmental justice and resource ethics.