Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$596

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Shaunna M. Schanzenbach

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

August 2015

End Date

November 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

St. Louis

Carlton

Lake

Project Overview

Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist

Project Details

Duluth artist Shaunna Heckman will purchase a new computer and digital rack mixer for her new electronica music project. These tools will allow her to compose quickly, incorporate acoustic and electronic elements seamlessly, prerecord tracks before going to a studio (thus saving studio costs), and create a stage show that is professional and consistent from venue to venue. She will learn how to use the equipment; compose new music and create a stage show that is based on using the digital mixer; rehearse with her band; and perform a CD release of her new music in Duluth in the fall of 2015.

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth, Shannon Sweeney: stage manager for Duluth Playhouse and former production manager for the Minnesota Ballet; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$596

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,356

Direct expenses

$1,952

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

My goal with the purchase of this technology is to complete the necessary components in creating the overall sound and structure of this music project. In order to achieve this, I intend to: 1.Buy both a rack mixer and computer; 2. Learn how to use both; 3. Create music and rehearse it with my band, using both pieces of equipment; 4. Debut the use of equipment in a live performance setting. My methods to measure my outcomes are essentially the same as my goals. The evaluation plan will be to ensure that I have: 1. bought both the rack mixer and computer; 2. Learned how to use both; 3. Created music and rehearsed it with my band, using both pieces of equipment; 4. Debuted the use of equipment in a live performance setting.

Measurable Outcome(s)

I was able to purchase a computer and music software necessary to create the style of music I am pursuing in this current project. I learned how to use the computer and have it set up with the necessary software for both writing, rehearsing and live performance which has allowed me to create the overall live sound I was aiming for.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Shaunna

Schanzenbach

Shaunna M. Schanzenbach

(218) 340-3379

smheckman@gmail.com

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