Quick Start Grants

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$40

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Vernal M. Bogren Swift AKA Vernal Bogren Swift

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

February 2016

End Date

March 2016

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Itasca

Project Overview

Quick Start Grants

Project Details

To collaborate with glass artist John Nutter in Vancouver.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

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.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director for North Shore Music Association, writer.

Conflict of Interest Disclosed

Project Details: 2016 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$40

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,878

Direct expenses

$1,918

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

0.00

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

To work with John Nutter, a Vancouver based glass designer. My objective is to collaborate with John Nutter to create glass design based on wax resist methods. John preps the thick glass-pane, I create design on the glass with wax-resist, and then John sandblasts it. In two weeks of collaborative work, from mid-February, we can make about four finished pieces of sand-blasted wax-resisted glass art. 1. Assess wax resist vs other resists for ability to hold up to sandblasting. 2. Work for designs better suited to glass as it reads" differently than textile. Collaborative assessment of aesthetic strength of the work at end of the project time. If successful, there will be continued collaboration and I'll do more glass design."

Measurable Outcome(s)

Completed seven sand-blasted glass designs. Two sand-blasted pieces have been chosen for a juried show in British Columbia this summer.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Vernal

Bogren Swift

Vernal M. Bogren Swift AKA Vernal Bogren Swift

(218) 247-7887

bogswift@yahoo.com

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