Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Support needed for solo art show promoting new work at Zeitgeist Arts gallery in January 2020.
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 immediate goal is to increase my visibility and sustainability as a female regional and national artist by creating a larger body of new work for sale in 2D graphics, photography, masks and wood carved sculptures in 2019. I will implement a public art show scheduled for January 2020 which will publicly feature my expanded portfolio. Since I have acquired a name in the field of giant street puppetry, I intend to include the best of my past, larger-than-life, moving sculpture work as space allows in the exhibit. I hope to show film clips of these entities in action for the many folks who have not experienced them live. I believe it is important to continue to educate people about this field in the Northland. Many folks in the Northland are unaware Minneapolis is quite a bustling, world center for masks and puppetry. By coordinating and promoting such an expansive show, I will evolve a more effective communication style enlisting public support and potential funders and customers. I will: *schedule personal artist talks and walkthroughs of the show. *post public pictures for comment on social media. *monitor my website for increased traffic and inquiries. *provide a guest book and evaluations for written thoughts offered by attendees. *evaluate my new work of wood carving with my mentor, Cecilia Schiller. *request staff meetings with Zeitgeist Arts, inviting feedback on the exhibit as it evolves.
I increased my visibility and potential sustainability as a female regional and national artist. I created and displayed a body of brand new work for sale in a very public venue. I evolved a much more effective communication style with the public by coordinating and promoting a solo art show. I demonstrated versatile skills in a very original medium. The show sparked many initial inquiries and a lot of interest in sculpture as hanging lanterns. Many appreciated that my work made from up-cycled materials.
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