Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Develop, Produce and Market Artistic Broom Accessories Including Handmade Dustpans and Hooks.
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.
Kristina Estell: visual artist, university fine arts instructor; Faith King: creative writer, visual artist, arts organization member; 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.
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Drew Digby (218) 722-0952
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The goal of this project is to advance my artistic career, vision and income by creating a line of dustpans and hooks to complement the artistic brooms that I already produce and sell. Measurable outcomes include the number of dustpan styles that I create and market, the number of hook styles that I create and market, and the income generated from the sales of dustpans and hooks. The success of this project will be evaluated by soliciting feedback from my mentor and people who test the dustpans and hooks. Specific measures used to evaluate the outcome of this project will be the number of sales and income generated through the sales of the dustpans and hooks developed through this grant. This will be tracked through use of inventory spreadsheets.
This project resulted in my having five new models of artistic dustpans, two new models of hook systems for hanging brooms and dustpans, and thus far an overall increase in business revenue of 10%.
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