Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Screen printing exposure unit and a washout booth (used to wash out the screens).
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 as an artist is to further my screen-printing technique by using equipment needed to help create more professional pieces of art. Having professional equipment that will help make a more precise screen for printing, as well as a wash station that will thoroughly wash the screens when finished. It will also open up more time for me to focus on creating art, printing, and the administrative part of my business. As my business continues to grow, I feel that it’s important to have a printing setup that will help improve my production time and bottom line. I plan on assembling the wash station in my basement studio and placing the exposure unit in the print area of my studio. At the moment I don't have any of these types of equipment, as I use my personal closet for exposing screens, and bathtub (that my family uses) to wash out screens. Having these pieces of equipment specified for screen-printing will make the print process go much smoother and quicker.
I purchased the light table and washout booth in June. Having both of these items has helped my process go much smoother and with better efficiency. I have created new works of art that have certain details I would not have been able to get without having the light table. This new light table takes only three minutes to expose a screen (opposed to the twenty minutes the light system in my closet had). I am able to use the washout booth in lieu of our family's bathtub which makes the process of washing out screens go much quicker and cleaner. Having both of these items has helped my time and creative process immensely, as well as the quality of work that comes out of my process.
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