Quick Start Grants - Individuals
Quick Start Grants - Individuals
Support needed for an artistic opportunity with world-renowned Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; 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; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.
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This opportunity helps me meet my goals as an individual artist and community collaborator. I will connect with other global artists to hone and share my art and community making skills beyond Minnesota. I will also be working again with the talented Children of the Wild theatre ensemble to further our artistic partnership here when returning home. I will learn myriad details of involving a small town in historical research and coordinated community artistic expression. I will learn about a time proven theatre community that works, plays and eats together. This experience will reinvigorate my art practice. I will receive immediate and consistent feedback about my work from several members of the infamous Double Edge Theatre and Children of the Wild ensembles, as well as the town of Ashfield, Massachusetts. I will have photo documentation of this process and product. I will experience a unique living situation where a theatre ensemble shares responsibility for all aspects of their work, including food production. I will share new skills in my work across Minnesota upon my return in my work with the Children of the Wild theatre ensemble, Duluth All Souls Night, and more.
This project reinvigorated my art practice, by taking me out of my normal routine/location and showing me more intriguing possibilities. I experienced firsthand this time-proven theatre community that works, eats, makes art/music, and dances together. I was able to contribute to a larger vision with my unique skills and make new connections in a professional setting. I also collaborated again with Children of the Wild (CotW), the resident theatre ensemble at DE, to further goals of our new artistic partnership. CotW is locating permanently in Minnesota in June after five years of intense training in MA. I have been invited to work on their next production of the Re-wilding Cycle of street theatre works, called, The Garden, by developing rehearsal and performance masks. The invitation to work at Double Edge was a true honor and greatly benefited our exciting new collaboration.
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