Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Purchase of tools and equipment for violin making.
Tara Makinen: executive director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, cultural programming coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children’s Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Aubid: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; 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; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
David Dobbs: visual artist, education coordinator at MacRostie Art Center; Wendy Durrwachter: composer, arranger, pianist; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children’s Theatre employee; Ron Piercy: jeweler, gallery owner; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My goal through this project is to purchase a set of high-quality tools to be used for violin making. The ability to obtain these tools will have an immediate and very significant impact on my ability to accomplish my work as a maker and restorer of violins and violin family instruments. The outcomes will be readily apparent in my ability to do this work more efficiently, as well as to more closely approach my aesthetic and musical vision as a violin maker. I believe that through this project I will see an immediate shift in my ability to carry out violin work efficiently and to explore more deeply areas of acoustic and tonal control in the instruments I am producing. Though the effects will take the form of subtle changes in aesthetic and tonal quality, they will be readily apparent to me and to other musicians playing the instruments that I construct.
The tools purchased with this grant funding are in use in my shop and have shown an immediate positive impact on my violin making process.
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