Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Ripple River Solo exhibit: Create large collages with three-dimensional collages as a body of work.
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.
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I have several upcoming opportunities to exhibit including a solo show at the Ripple River Gallery in Deerwood, Minnesota. Other venues are pending. I wish to design a unique body of work exploring two new ways of creating a collage. To challenge myself as a collage artist I am proposing to create collages that have three-dimensional elements. This would include steaming and shaping bent wood components. Along with the 3D shapes, I will use traditional collage as well as use images and found paper. I will silkscreen and airbrush color components so I can create the exact color I deem needed for this project. These efforts should contribute to more abstract compositions using color, shape and space then in my previous collages. I intend to create four, 24 x 30, two 24 x 24 and two twenty x 24 panels. The two smaller panels will be created as a diptych which will allow me to explore moving the images, shapes and colors from one panel to the next. Evaluation at the completion of this project will be measured in several ways. One important criterion evaluation of the works will be to determine if I have achieved incorporating the three-dimensional components with the color and images. Not only do I want the series to have fine design and execution, but complete paintings that are visually exciting. I want to have integrated all the parts: color, space, three-dimensional shapes and images into an intriguing visual whole. A collage is created by the progressive addition or subtraction of an unlimited variety of materials. Each added element will build on the previous one by changing, adding, or even result in eliminating the other components. What you remove is as important as what you put into the composition. The images must not be arbitrary fragments but move effectively with the whole composition. I will keep notes on my progress and what problems I encounter with the wood bending and what solutions I was able to secure. This will enable me to plan for future series or build on the completed series. Two of the panels will be constructed as a diptych and have to work together as a pair as well. Every collage inspires me to find new ways to create a final painting. I will be looking to see if the paintings have a coherent quality and I want the series to be cohesive as well.
I completed collages that incorporated color, images and the proposed inclusion of three-dimensional steamed and bent wood components. Upon completion the series the exhibit titled, Unseen Realms, opened at the Ripple River Gallery which runs from July 15, 2020 to August 10. I experimented with silkscreen, gold leaf, and airbrush color components and was able to design a unique body of work exploring two new ways for creating a collage. This project included my learning the process of steaming and shaping bent wood components. I discovered many unexpected challenges along the way but was able to create collages that had three-dimensional elements. Along with the 3D wood shapes, I used traditional collage as well as images and found paper. The series has seven twenty x twenty panels. Each panel took longer then expected to create because merging images with the three-dimensional wood strips required a significant amount of manipulation and trial and error.
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