Quick Support for Artists
Quick Support for Artists
Creating Cultural Preservation Through My Artwork
Cheri Buzzeo: theater, music, The Barn Theatre administration, Willmar Main St participant; Jessica Welu: writing, music, SW Regional Development Commission; Anna Johannsen: fiber artist, art teacher, Remick Gallery board, president of Windom Women's Investment group, treasurer of Cottonwood County Animal Rescue, officer of Cotton Quilters; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician, Hinterland Art Crawl board; Shawn Kinsinger: theater director, actor, musician, Palace Theatre executive director, Green Earth Players vice president, Luverne Street Music board member, Luverne High School Theater artistic director; Darlene Kotelnicki: theater, city council, library board. Kristen Kuipers: musician, private lesson and K-12 classroom music instructor, theater, writing, volunteer with Jackson Center for the Arts; Cheryl Avenel Navara: education, Worthington Public Arts Commission chair, SW MN Opportunity Council volunteer; Alison Nelson: art, music, and dance teacher, KMS Community Ed director, Kerkhoven Fire Department Auxiliary fundraiser; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Michele Huggins: Granite Area Arts Council treasurer and volunteer, member of the Artisan Grain Collaborative, founding member of ACHALA; Betsy Pardick: musician, actor, Dept. of Public Transformation committees; Michele Knife Sterner: theater (actor), SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Louella Voigt: music, fiber art; Blue Mound Area Theatre board; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Pipestone Performing Arts Center board, Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB director; Janine Teske: music, theater, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school board; Mark Wilmes: Lake Benton Opera House board president, actor/director, musician, reporter;
Jessica Bak, visual art; Fern Cloud, visual/cultural art; Dana Conroy, film; Daryl Hrdlicka, theater, film; Oak Kelsey, multidiscipline; David KelseyBassett, visual art, music, SMAC board; Eileen O'Keefe, cultural art
ACHF Arts Access
I look forward to using an airbrush to execute my unique Native American designs and scenes on my attire, whether that be a shield or denim jacket or bag. Painting is something we've done traditionally. Learning how to use an airbrush to achieve the designs I create is exciting for me. I think it important to continually learn and expand your creativity through a variant of means. I also would like to expand on my bag making with different types of beads and more of a variety of sizes. The hides will ensure and help with this. I use my imagination and visions and dreams to create many of these pieces. How I will record my progress of my project is by photographing the new pieces I've created and recording via journal on how I feel I have progressed by using a new piece of equipment or type of hide or beads to create a larger variety of articles and pieces.
For myself, I was able to become much more acquainted with some of my new filming gear as well as working through the complicated process of recording footage to VHS, then playing back and recording that VHS version back into my editing computer. Clinton was able to spearhead the creation of his first EP/album based on the song he recorded here while on his residency. I think neither of us thought we would start a visual art label out of this, but it's very exciting for us both to move into this next phase. We hope it will help foster that ubiquitous but ofttimes neglected artistic community in a way that is not represented as well on a national level as well as a statewide and local level.