Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Carbon prints at Little Knife Sanctuary. I propose a residency with Patricia Canelake at her print studio at the Little Knife Sanctuary in Knife River, to produce experimental intaglio prints and monoprints for an exhibition.
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.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
I hope to return to my interest in intaglio / monoprint, which I have done intermittently as part of larger conceptual practice, this time increasing the scale of the work and combining monoprint and itaglio (drypoint). This mode of printmaking has traditionally incorporated carbon-based pigments; my current work, both 2D and 3D, uses carbon as a residue of burning, and in the form of tar (pre-burned carbon, you might say). I am using carbon in my work to evoke climate change as a result of human abuse of the carbon cycle. I have a number of ideas concerning subject matter. I will stage a show of this work in fall of 2019, at a location to be determined. I hope to complete twenty works, incorporating animal portraits in monoprint environments of fire and flood. My goal is to develop works that expand my avenues of communication. The evaluation plan will use quantitative measurements in the following ways: number of works successfully completed; number of exhibitions secured for these works; number of reviews/notices of these exhibitions; number of viewers of the works. Qualitative measures will incorporate the following: ongoing insight from Patricia Canelake (a superb printmaker for whom I have great respect) during the course of the residency on the quality of the works (I hope to develop my understanding of the potentials of the medium further in this process).
I produced twenty drypoints and monoprints, working with Patricia Canelake in her print studio. We learned a great deal from each other! We plan to work together in future. The prints will go into a solo show I have scheduled at Washington Gallery for Fall of 2020 on the theme of Carbon (this refers to carbon-based life forms, climate change that puts this lifeworld at risk caused by our release of carbon dioxide caused by burning the remains of ancient carbon-based life forms in the form of oil and coal). The show will also feature sculptures and an installation. The other elements of the show, and the expenses of putting on the show, will be covered by a different grant, already awarded. I will do an effective PR initiative using articles placed local media, writing for national and international arts sites, and social media. I hope to make the show a meaningful destination for local people; I hope that the show's message and images will have a far wider audience.
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