Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Live: Stories from the Heart
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Paula Gudmundson: Professor of music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, flutist; Walt Raschick: music director at KUWS; Judy Budreau: writer and editor; Jeffrey Kalstrom: sculptor and printmaker, Professor of Fine Art at University of Minnesota-Duluth.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goal: Create four storytelling videos and share them with the general public through a series of videos on YouTube. They will also be shared with my local community at a public event at the Grand Marais Art Colony. Outcomes: The project will expand my artistic connection to the spoken word and open new possibilities for it. I also expect that the intense experience of mining these memories, crafting them into engaging stories and then recording them in videos that will be viewed by friends and strangers alike, will expand my life in art, including working with clay. I also hope viewers will learn more about the world they live in and celebrate their own personal lives with a sense of wonder and possibility. I will be able to evaluate the project by the attendance and participation in the public event in my community when I launch the videos in the fall. I am hoping to organize it as a talking circle, where people will view a video and then comment/respond to it. This will help me better understand my own art in a public context as well as see if the videos help bring people together to talk about their personal lives and shared experiences. I will also be able to evaluate my work through the number of views on my YouTube channel and comments on the site.
The actual measurable outcomes include the number of views of my video on my Web site, www.givingmyselfpermission.net and my YouTube channel (Joan Farnam), which numbered 597 as of Nov. 30, 2017. Thirty-five attended the video launch at the Grand Marais Art Colony on Friday, Oct. 27, a disappointing number on the face of it, but there were at least five people in the audience that I didn't know, which speaks somewhat to the marketing effort. We arranged the room for 40 -- we figured it was a stretch to get a huge number of people to turn up for a storytelling screening in a town that has a population of 1,300. It was a good call. The room felt comfortably full and relaxing. There were a lot of questions in the Q and A session at the end of the screening. Videographer Patrick Knight and I spent at least 15 minutes answering them all, which also speaks to the interest and engagement of the audience.
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