Quick Start Opportunity Grants
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Katherine E. Sandnas AKA Mutti
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
May 2015
End Date
May 2015
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
Project Overview
Quick Start Opportunity Grants
Project Details
Ceramic Artists Mentor-ship with: Ruriko Miyamoto, Ting Ju Shao, and Katherine Sandnas
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 North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; Catherine Meier: website designer, printmaker, drawer, animator; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; 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, Shannon Sweeney: stage manager for Duluth Playhouse and former production manager for the Minnesota Ballet; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair.
Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3
Appropriation Language
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Cultural Heritage
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,307
Direct expenses
$1,500
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
Our goal is to work collaboratively, to learn from each other by our unique ceramic knowledge, vision, techniques, and ideas with clay. We will research the newly developed clay body todo at the Shigaraki Ceramic Research Center and work together in Ruriko Miyamoto's studio. Our goal is to research and work collaboratively with the slip-casting processes of todo clay. Our goal is to produce ceramic sculpture with todo clay that will reflect our collaboration, and our cultures. We want to collaborate and work with Japanese todo clay; through research, studio work, and our ideas. Our goal is to produce slip cast ceramic sculpture with todo clay.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Project Manager
First Name
Katherine
Last Name
Sandnas
Organization Name
Katherine E. Sandnas AKA Mutti
State
MN
Phone
(218) 476-2012
Email
katherinesandnas@hibbing.edu
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