Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Support to purchase new blacksmithing forge, anvil, and tools to advance ongoing artistic work.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; 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; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD; Moira Villiard: visual artist, student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, former Children's Theatre employee.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
My art is based on my direct interaction with the materials I use. I harvest and process all of the pieces and parts straight from the natural landscape around me, working largely with tools - steel, wood, bone, and antler - that I have made. For me the process is an inseparable part of the art. I currently lack the means to heat and manipulate steel, which I use both as a finished piece of art and as a means to create art work. A new forge, anvil, and tools will give me the ability to create new works that I have been wanting to make but have been unable to do, and to make very specific tools I regularly use which are not commercially available. My goal is to more fully incorporate steel into my artwork, and to be able to manufacture the tools that I use in my art work. The measurable outcomes will my ongoing creation of art and artistic tools made with the use of new equipment, and the creation of objects which previously were not possible for me. The measurable outcome for this grant is the creation of new artworks that incorporate steel as the main focus, as well as the manufacture of the tools I use to create art.
I now have a functioning setup for manipulating steel and metal - a forge, anvil, and tools to use them! Using them, I have been able to work on new pieces and begin to make more of the tools I use in my art.
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