Career Development Grant

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,047

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Vernal M. Bogren Swift AKA Vernal Bogren Swift

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

July 2015

End Date

January 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

Itasca

St. Louis

Aitkin

Project Overview

Career Development Grant

Project Details

Dorothy Was Right

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,047

Other Funds Leveraged

$3,293

Direct expenses

$4,340

Administration costs

$1,047

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

1. Four large finished batiks at end of six months from start of grant. 2. Proposals out to appropriate venues for an exhibition. Batik is a slow art. It is a negative image process, somewhat related to woodblock printing. The complicated process keeps the image under wax and fugitive dyes until the end, when the batik is boiled several minutes. Boiling does two things. The image is revealed, and the boiling temperature alters the color of the natural dyes. Sometimes that's so nice. Not always though. I do stay intrigued with batik just because I cannot fully control the outcome. Either the alchemy works with full note or it does not. Like music that goes into the mind nicely, or sometimes just hits a wrong chord. Each finished piece has to be evaluated after the finishing boil. About 60% are successful. I will complete four large batiks by end of February 2016. Each will be at least 10 square feet in size.

Measurable Outcome(s)

Will create 6 to 10 batiks for the proposed new art museum in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Vernal

Bogren Swift

Vernal M. Bogren Swift AKA Vernal Bogren Swift

(218) 247-7887

bogswift@yahoo.com

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