Technology/Equipment Grant

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$995
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Reggie Asplund
Recipient Type
Individual
Status
Completed
Start Date
November 2016
End Date
December 2016
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
St. Louis
St. Louis
Project Overview
Technology/Equipment Grant
Project Details
Seeking assistance to purchase new computer and editing software.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; 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; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD; 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

2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$995
Other Funds Leveraged
$1,225
Direct expenses
$2,220
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

My goal is to purchase new updated equipment that can handle the software needed to continue editing my photography. This includes both future goals (stated later) as well as images I am unable to edit due to the limitations of my current computer. If all are completed successfully within the project timeline of two months, I would consider this project a success. Purchase new equipment. Maintain budgeted price for specified equipment. Be able to process and edit current collection of un-editable images (due to current computing limitations). Be able to create large, multi-image panoramas. Explore new techniques in image-stacking for astrophotography. Complete and edit a multiple exposure time-lapse sequence of either HDR images or long exposure photos.

Measurable Outcome(s)

The checklist from my evaluation plan is as follows: [x] Purchase equipment [x] Maintain budgeted price - very little changed as Apple has some pretty homogenized price points. [x] Processed a good number of previously un-editable images, including many panoramas, etc. [x] I have begun exploring some astrophotography techniques, consider this one 'in progress' [ ] Complete and edit a time lapse sequence... the trip that I aimed to shoot a series of these was a tad compromised due to travel plan changes. I have since edited a few time lapses on the new computer, but aim to shoot a series of HDR images for such a purpose later this spring. The trip did allow for a greater series of panoramas and other such landscape shots and have been editing those instead. I don't see this as a miss of a goal, just an adjustment of my artistic desires.

Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager
First Name
Reggie
Last Name
Asplund
Organization Name
Reggie Asplund
State
MN
Phone
(651) 341-4014
Email
reggie.untradition@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


332 West Superior Street, Suite 204
Duluth, MN 55802

Phone
Project Manager: Rebecca Graves
(218) 722-0952
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