Small Grants - COVID-19
Small Grants - COVID-19
Macbeth Quarantined is a movie mixing the text of Macbeth with original music and visual art.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; 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.
Drew Digby: ARAC Executive Director; Holly Hackett-Rich: ARAC Grants Manager; Erin Turner: ARAC Operations Manager; Steve Wick: ARAC Office Coordinator.
ACHF Arts Access
The impact on the participating artists will be the opportunity to create collaboratively in a time where what that means has fundamentally shifted. Artists all across the globe are reeling from the effects of COVID-19. Macbeth Quarantined will bring many of those artists together. And through that virtual community I think many more, better and even more effective projects will begin. From just the limited introduction of the idea I have gotten an incredible response from my social media community. Artists are eager to create and be involved. The capture, editing and release of the film will be an incredible undertaking. By the very nature of virtual communities and my connection to artists worldwide the circulation of the film will expansive. The success will be the release of the film and the connection of artists to those whole have loved to consume the art of submitting artists. I do plan to monitor traffic to the website and assist with connecting artists to the public. If I can help the artists sustain their livelihoods through their craft I would consider the project a success.
The project created a space for artists to showcase their art in a time that it is really difficult to do so and the art submitted will be included and showcased.. The goal was to launch the project by the end of the summer. The web series and movie will be launched by the end of the year once the accompanying sound track is finished/