Career Development Grant

1. To do travel research in Minnesota and North Dakota next fall. I will see fossils of Dakota's Eocene epoch horses, and if I can, I will see a segment of the iridium rich chalk line in rock strata in the Badlands. I will identify the similarities between the Deep Time represented in the Eocene epoch, when there were no humans yet, and the Present Time, represented by the Anthropocene epoch, abounding with humans. I already know there were bees, oaks, carrots and horses then and today. Outcome will be an increase of knowledge about the Deep Time and Present Time. 2. To make at least 10 batiks, using new materials and dyes. Outcome will be a total of 16 batiks finished by summer of 2018. 1. The project is in its second year. It will wrap up next summer, 2018 and be ready for exhibition in Minnesota and North Dakota by fall. Measurable Outcome to be signified by clear dates for two exhibitions. The exhibit content itself will reflect the interest in location and similarity between two distinct epochs of paleontological time. I will show images in batik that reflect Minnesota and North Dakota, not the whole of North America, and I will not include images of creatures that did not live in the time and places described in the project. That means, for instance, there won't be dinosaurs (they are earlier than the Eocene epoch). It DOES have to be noted that when I talk about images, I take very creative license in what I choose to present, and how they look and act in the batik, as well.