Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Study on Handplanes. I need to enlarge my tool set for deepening the quality of my work.
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.
Karen Savage-Blue: visual artist; Karen McManus: musician, administrator at Mesabi Symphony Orchestra; Sarah Waddle: program manager for the North House Folk School, arts educator; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Kathy Neff: musician, director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Christina Nohre: writer and arts advocate.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My primary goal is to make 21 or more hand planes to increase my quality of work. This goal will help me meet my goal of creating a consistent patina like finish right off of the tool. I want to further draw out and utilize the natural beauty of the wood. Sanded finishes leave a slight haze or fuzz, while super sharp planes leaves more of a sheen smoothness. There is a tangible difference between the two that makes for a measurable outcome. Pieces of mine that are plane finished always elicits a stronger response from viewers. There is always a curiosity as to how I got to that level of smoothness as well as how I draw out such depth to the grain. My second goal is to do more of my material processing by hand. Things come up with each piece of wood that one can find by working with it with hand tools. Knowing the characteristics can make the crucial finishing steps easier. There is character in the hand processed wood that is harder to find in machine processed wood. I will be able to evaluate the plan using multiple different metrics. The first metric is whether I completed the 21 or more planes. With those completed, it is possible to measure the completion of the other goals. I will with a few people to be critical judge whether there is a difference in my quality of work. Is the less of a fuzzy appearance to each piece? Is there more depth to the grain appearance? Is there more sheen on my newer work from plane finish? Does it elicit the reaction of surprise of feel and appearance?
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