Technology/Equipment Grant

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,260
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Michael V. Scholtz AKA Mike Scholtz
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
May 2016
End Date
July 2016
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
Carlton
St. Louis
Carlton
Project Overview
Technology/Equipment Grant
Project Details
MacBook Pro for editing in support of my documentary filmmaking career.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
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
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
No
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2015 Special Session, chapter 2, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education

2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,260
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,100
Direct expenses
$2,360
Administration costs
$0
Number of full time equivalents funded
0.00
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

My goal is to purchase a newer, faster MacBook Pro to help me develop as a documentary filmmaker. Among the projects I’ll be working on this year is a series of short documentary films about organic farming in Carlton County. In May, I will be shooting some of the most ambitious films in this series. These films will require a faster processor and more memory than I have in my current Mac. So that I have measurable outcomes, I intend to finish at least one of these short documentaries each month from May through July and upload them to YouTube. I will also screen one of them at the Free Range Film Festival, which I help program, at the end of July. In my final report to Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, I will report the number of short films I was able to finish through the end of July thanks to this new computer. I will also provide the number of page views my films generate on YouTube. I will provide audience attendance figures for my film screening at the Free Range Film Festival. And, finally, I will share any press that I receive while working on this project.

Measurable Outcome(s)

My goal was to purchase a newer, faster MacBook Pro to help me develop as a documentary filmmaker, particularly as I began working on a series of short documentaries about organic farming in Carlton County. I finished one of these short documentaries each month (in May, June and July) and uploaded them to YouTube. (You can search for them there under the series title "Food Farm Slow TV.") I also screened one of the documentaries at the Free Range Film Festival in Wrenshall, Minnesota, where it was accompanied by a live score performed by Portrait of a Drowned Man.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Michael
Last Name
Scholtz
Organization Name
Michael V. Scholtz AKA Mike Scholtz
State
MN
Phone
(218) 343-0517
Email
mikevscholtz@gmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

Griggs Midway Building, Suite 304,
540 Fairview Avenue North,
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone
(651) 539-2650 or toll-free (800) 866-2787
Email the Agency
Location

424 West Superior Street, Suite 104
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone
Project Manager: Rebecca Graves
218-722-0952
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