Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Wendy Durrwachter: A Showcase Concert - I am requesting funding for the production of the Compact Discs for a concert I am recording at Sacred Heart on Thursday, January 18.
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, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; 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 Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Ariana Daniel: mixed media artist, arts instructor; Emily Fasbender: student liaison, visual artist
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center; Richard Colburn: photographer, retired professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa; Tim White: photographer, writer; Karen McManus: musician, administrator at Mesabi Symphony Orchestra.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
My goal is to host and record a concert of my compositions at Sacred Heart Music Center. I have hired 19 musicians to perform 11 pieces for an estimated overall duration of 70 minutes. The concert is being recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jake Larson at Sacred Heart. I am seeking an ARAC grant to cover the costs of the production of 1500 compact discs with jacket/sleeve design. It will be my first professional grade recording. The CD will be disseminated inside and outside the community via local stores, my website, amazon.com, and CDBaby.com to promote my work in hope to attain future commissions and audience. I will measure the success by the recording's reviews, presence of a future commission, and amount of interest expressed in future projects. Concert reviews and CD sales at local stores and from my website will help me measure the outcome. If the representation of a performance on the CD garners a commission, the project will be a success. If the CD is able to attract more sponsors for next year's event (for paying the performers, venue cost, and concert advertising), it will be a successful outcome.
Number of CDs produced Future commissions: - UMD and DSSO's Ted Schoen has committed to perform a clarinet concerto composed by myself - DSSO's oboist Darci Griffith Gamerl has commissioned me to write for her trio "I the Siren" (soprano, piano, oboe) Accepted into Homegrown Music Festival as a duo with Adam Sippola to perform my compositions (to a full house at Teatro Zuccone) Distribution of CDs will be an ongoing process Established a relationship with a graphic designer, sound engineer, and artists for future projects.
Other,local or private