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(UNDATED) - The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced that 42 Hoosier artists throughout the state will receive career development assistance through the agency’s Individual Advancement Program (IAP) grants for Fiscal Year 2019.
The Arts Commission this year accepted grant applications in the disciplines of crafts, design, media arts, photography, visual arts, folk arts projects related to those traditional disciplines, and from artists with disabilities through the access category. New for this grant cycle was a separate grant category for artists who have been pursuing their arts career for less than five years.
"Indiana has a significantly higher percentage of self-employed artists than the national average, which makes it all the more important to assist individual artists at all levels of their career," said Lewis C. Ricci, IAC Executive Director. "The Individual Advancement Program is designed to help artists find new opportunities for career success. An artist who is successful is much more likely to stay in Indiana and contribute on many levels to the vitality of their community."
Region 8 grant recipients include:
Mia Beach, Bloomington, Monroe County, Photography
Beach will create a large collection of portraits, accompanied by a series of interviews, that convey the experiences of people living in communes. Beginning in Indiana, she will travel to various intentional communities and depict the lives of the residents through portraits. The final product will be a photo book containing the portraits and the interviews together. She will receive $2,000.
Ononchimeg Dorjdagva Gonso, Coal City, Owen County, Visual Arts. This award supports the production of a series of large-scale (20"x24", 20"x30") landscape/landmark, post-impressionisticstyle oil paintings highlighting the cultural and natural heritage of Owen county, Indiana. The series of 10 paintings will include the Falls at McCormick's Creek State Park, Owen County Courthouse, Cataract Covered Bridge and other important local landmarks and landscapes. She will receive $1,406.
Nicole Jacquard, Bloomington, Monroe County, Crafts
Jacquard will combine the historical technique of Mokume' Gane with innovative technologies. Her goals are to; explore
the possibilities of how new technologies can have a significant impact on historical techniques and materials, re-think
how patterning applications have been approached in the past, and as a result, open up an untapped method of applying surface decoration to metal. She received $2,000.
Robert T. Morrison, West Baden Springs, Orange County, Folk / Traditional Arts
Morrison will develop new techniques to produce one-of-a-kind tables, utensils, shelves and decorative carvings to build an inventory for craft shows and museum exhibitions of traditional folk art. He will also attend the John C. Campbell Folk school in Brasstown, North Carolina. Campbell offers week-long classes in various techniques for folk art. He received $2,000.
Kelly Rauch, Bloomington, Monroe County, Crafts. Glass artist, Kelly Wow, will spend essential practice time leading a team in the hot shop and developing clean technique by creating cylinders, the fundamental shape for making any glass item. She will also create a presentation on how to blow glass cylinders for education and outreach. This skill set will also significantly expand the teaching capacity of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. She will receive $2,000.
Tom Roznowski, Bloomington, Monroe County, Media Arts
PorchLight is a 60 minute themed audio project that will be broadcast weekly on WFIU-FM to listeners throughout central and south-central Indiana. The produced series, created and hosted by Indiana writer/musician Tom Roznowski, presents and explores hidden resources in media, history, and popular culture - sharing discoveries that can both inform and enhance the experience of everyday living. He received $2,000.
Susan Shorter, Bloomington, Monroe County, Visual Arts
Shorter will attend the 1 Fantastic Week workshop in Nashville, where she can learn from industry professionals the ins and outs of the business end of the fantasy art world. She wants to see all that she is capable of in this field, and the lectures, critiques, advice, and wisdom she can gain from this amazing workshop could help to solidify her path to her own artistic prosperity. She received $1,900.
Neil S. Taylor, Bloomington, Monroe County, Visual Arts, This Grant enables Taylor to research and execute a hybrid approach to the printmaking medium of Engraving. He will combine the techniques of line-Engraving with the more tonal and atmospheric methods of Mezzotint and Roulette. The results of this research will be exhibited in a show with a lecture and demonstration to be given to the public. He received $2,000
Emily Elizabeth Wilson, Bloomington, Monroe County, Visual Arts. Wilson will travel to rural Putnam County where she will complete a series of paintings that explore issues of rural culture and the power of landscape. She will also exhibit and speak about her work in three counties. She received $2,000.
Cassidy Amber Young, Bloomington, Monroe County, Visual Arts
Cassidy Amber Young, Bloomington, Monroe County, Visual Arts. Cassidy will print postcards and fine-art prints with White Rabbit Copy Company, will purchase booth and art presentation equipment to create an art sales space at free public art fairs, and will develop partnerships with local restaurants and the public they serve to encourage both local business and art sales. She received $2,000
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