Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Solo Photography Exhibition at Cedar Coffee Company and Spokengear.
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.
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Drew Digby (218) 722-0952
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
1. The primary goal of this project is to select photography prints within a consistent theme and style and have my first solo photography exhibition. The exhibition consists of three 24x30-inch framed prints and eight 11x14-inch framed prints with five additional framed prints to maintain the hanging format of the exhibit as framed prints sell. The goal is to have 50 backed and bagged 13x19-inch prints and 200 8x10-inch backed and bagged prints on the floor held in folding canvas print racks. The measurable outcome is completing the prints and readying them for the exhibit and hanging them according to my computer mockups of the show. 2. The secondary goal is to have my photography seen by approximately 10,000 people. The measurable outcome is the number of people who see the exhibit. 3. The third goal is to sell approximately twenty prints. The measurable outcome is the amount of sales. The primary way that I'll evaluate this project is manifold: 1. The primary goal will be achieved after I print, frame and bag the artwork and then hang the show according to my mockup within a consistent theme and style. I'll be able to visually measure the goal when on the wall by comparing it to my mockup. I'll be able to measure the outcome by counting the number of prints that I was able to print, bag and frame. 2. Cedar Coffee Company and Spokengear will determine the total number of visitors that have seen the exhibit. 3. Total number of prints sold will measure whether my third goal was achieved.
In the grant application, I had three goals and three ways to measure the outcomes of those goals. 1. When I hung the show, it matched my mockup and had a consistent theme and style with one variation. Due to lack of additional storage at the shop, we hung the backup prints in addition what the mockup showed. It resulted in a more impactful display. I beat my goal of printing and backing 50 13x19-inch prints by doing 100 13x19-inch prints. I hit my goal of printing 200 8x10-inch prints. 2. Cedar Coffee Company and Spokengear determined that 10,516 people saw the exhibit. This is based on transaction totals during the show and estimating that there were 1.5 people per transaction. My goal was to have the exhibit seen by approximately 10,000 people. 3. I sold 40 prints during the show for a total of $2,006.25. After taking there consignment fee out, I received $1605. This exceeded my goal of selling twenty prints.
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