Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Requesting funds to support the purchase of a slab roller for ceramic sculptures and wall-hangings.
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; Paula Gudmundson: University of Minnesota Duluth music professor, flutist; 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 is to receive funding to assist in the purchase of a slab roller. The slab roller will significantly reduce the amount of time I spend forming slabs and remove the time I spend recovering from wear and tear on my body caused by forming slabs by hand. These time savers will allow me to create three large slab based ceramic sculptures and enough slab based ceramic wall-hangings to cover 60 square feet of wall in time for display and sale at the 2019 Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour in Two Harbors on September 27th, 28th, and 29th. The time saved producing slabs with the slab roller will increase the quality of my work by allowing for more time spent on research and development. It will also improve the structural quality of my work. Both the increase in time spent on research and development, and improvement on the structural quality will be reflected in a sales goal of $800.00 during the weekend of the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour. I will be evaluating the success of my outcome based on the following yes or no questions: 1. Did I receive funding and purchase a slab roller? 2. Has my time producing slabs by hand been cut down significantly? 3. Do I no longer need a day to recover from slamming out slabs by hand? 4. Did I create three large slab-based ceramic sculptures and enough slab-based ceramic wall hangings to cover 60 square feet of wall space? 5. Was the work completed in time for display and sale at the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour in Two Harbors on September 27th, 28th, and 29th? 6. Did I have more time for research and development? 7. Did I reach my sales goal of $800.00 during the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour? If I have answered yes to all these questions, my project’s goals will have been met.
These are the yesno questions from my grant application to measure the success of my project: 1. Did I receive funding and purchase a slab roller? Yes. 2. Has my time producing slabs by hand been cut down significantly? Yes. 3. Do I no longer need a day to recover from slamming out slabs by hand? Yes. 4. Did I create three large slab-based ceramic sculptures and enough slab-based ceramic wall hangings to cover 60 square feet of wall space? Yes, will attach a photo of my display. 5. Was the work completed in time for display and sale at the Lake Superior 2020 Studio and Art Tour in Two Harbors on September 27 th, 28 th, and 29 th ? Yes it was. 6. Did I have more time for research and development? Yes, much more time to create more detailed artwork. 7. Did I reach my sales goal of $800.00 during the Lake Superior 2020 Studio and Art Tour? Yes. My sales totaled $1,045.00
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