Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Ojibwe Bear sculpture: I am requesting grant funding to create a life-size, seven foot tall Ojibwe bear sculpture.
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
This sculpture will allow me to pursue the creation of a significant sculptural work that reflects a natural next step in my artistic evolution. Artistically, it will allow me to tie together multiple threads of my creative history into a singular and unifying vision. I hope to create a statement and eye grabbing centerpiece for my gallery exhibits that will get people engaged and talking. Through my work and the reception it receives, I hope to inspire younger artist to feel free to take chances and explore many forms of art. Reaching a larger audience in the native community and the non-native communities by offering an unconventional art sculpture with traditional values as the heart of the project. As I create the sculpture, I will keep a journal about the process so I have a record of my experience pursuing this new form. As a resident at Washington Studios Co-op, my work space is one that receives a variety of visitors. I will document the feedback I receive as I create the sculpture. Once the sculpture is complete, I will begin integrating it into my gallery exhibits. I am a consistent exhibitor and teacher at American Indian Community Housing Organization in Duluth; this will likely be the bear's first venue. I will observe how people engage with the sculpture and give people an opportunity to leave comments about their impressions. I will also document the conversations I have with viewers through journaling and social media.
I created a 7 foot tall bear sculpture using a taxidermy form that had approximately 40,000 pompoms glued in place as described in my grant proposal. The bear has been at the American Indian community housing organization 2nd Ave and 2nd Street Duluth MN. This has inspired many younger artist in the region to try new avenues in art, example was taking a buffalo form I had from home covering it in duct tape and bringing it to two events at the American Indian community housing center and using the left over materials from the grant project along with the form kids and adults were taken on a tour to see the bear project n instructed to start creating their own. So much fun joining the community in this unexpected benefit of this wonderful project. During the first showing of the sculpture so many people enjoying and smiling at the happiness this project brought to the community was inspiring to any artist.
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