Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Macro photography equipment.
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
The goal of this project is to develop a portfolio of macro photographs of insects that reside in Northern Minnesota. The portfolio shall consist of 15-20 high quality macro photographs composed in a way that creates an emotional connection between the viewer and the insect. This will be achieved by posing and framing and by including their natural surroundings within the photo. The evaluation of a successful project will have a subjective an objective component. The objective component of 15-20 finalized insect photographs. The subjective component is that they are technically sound (sharp, well lit, in focus) as well as creatively composed using various photographic techniques and will vary in their framing (the location within the frame and whether the insect is alone or with another element), posing (front-view, dorsal view), lighting (artificial, natural, mixed), and others.
I published 26 images that had the quality and focus defined in the scope of this project. I also printed and matted eight of the 26 photographs to be sold at various events.
Other,local or private