Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Equine Sculptural Series.
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
I have always been fascinated with horses and how they can move with such fluid precision for such large animals. Often times they are seen as powerful, graceful creatures with the ability to fiercely defend the herd but also be gentle giants. A look in their eyes and their body language can show their emotions and can speak as well as you or I speak our languages. My goal is to create a series of wall and free-standing equine sculptures that captures the fluid movement and the beautiful and powerful majestic stature of the horse to and combine them with various textures and glaze combinations I have used in the past. I have done past sculptures involving the human body and facial expressions and how we can capture a moment and one image tells a whole story. I would like to accomplish a similar effect with this equine series. I plan on sculpting horse heads for the wall series and utilize the horse head as a type of canvas and etch different images and textures in the sculptures and manipulate the angles and expressions on the heads to show different types of emotions. The goal is to make at least six to eight larger wall sculptures and if able, at least two large free-standing sculptures that compliments the wall sculptures. I will be using a combination of hand built and thrown pieces to create the sculptures and will be applying various stains and glazes to enhance and finish the pieces.
I have six final finished pieces that are up to my standards as was the goal for my project. As stated in my application, my goal for the project was to have created six to eight wall sculptural pieces up to my standards and if I was able and had enough time and materials, I also was hoping to do one or two free standing sculptures. Unfortunately, because of all the hassle with the slab roller being back ordered and then me having to reorder it from another company, I had to figure out a different way to create my pieces without ruining my wrists. I was able to create over the six wall sculptures as well as over 60+ test pieces where I tested the various glazes and textures on initially before creating the wall sculptures and I finished up the series with six final wall sculptures that I am extremely happy with and are up to my standards. The other pieces that did not make the cut are going to be re-glazed or reclaimed but they were the first initial sculpture attempts and I had to tweak my process so that the shape and structural integrity wasn't compromised.
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