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Project summary describe the specific project you would like to accomplish with these funds. Include collaborators, medium (s), and what you intend to accomplish. (200 words max) Art Gumbo funding will allow proven- talent high school students in Dubuque Art Centers Master Allies Program to create a courtyard sculpture for Hempstead High. Seniors Brianna Manning and Holly Brimeyer have worked with Gail Chavenelle, metal artist. All participants in this project are women working in a non- traditional medium of metal. Holly and Brianna have already met with their school, art teacher and officials and received necessary permissions and approvals. Gail will lead the team in sculpture design, conversion to computer Cad-Cam, collaboration with Giese - local metal fabricator to laser cut, work with breaks, rollers and other state of the art fabrication tools and techniques to produce a metal public sculpture. Much public sculpture is designed by artists and fabricated with the help of a professional foundry or fabricator. Installation often requires coordination with outside contractors. This project allows the students to have a professional art experience while creating a needed sculpture as a legacy and thank you for the school and system which has educated them. A public metal sculpture project is expensive and could not be undertaken without Art Gumbo funding and support. How will your project impact the Dubuque community? (100 words max) No student sculpture, except in the enclosed cases in the halls, is represented at Hempstead. The students feel this is important to alter. The sculpture currently fronting their school depicts war. Brianna and Holly, as we all, know that Art expresses culture. They do not want their school symbolized by war. They will create a sculpture which expresses Peace, unity, and community inside their school. This would directly impact all the students, teachers, parents, and administration at one of the two public high schools in our city. Thats a big impact. If awarded, how will you present your accomplishments at the next ART GUMBO in 3 months? (60 words) One student has a background in video production. With camera and smart phones, Holly and Brianna will keep a video record of the creation of the sculpture. The final video will include asking other students what they think of the sculpture. These interviews will expand the impact of the project by involving other students. If awarded, how will you use funding (up to $750) towards the realization of your project? Please include details of how the grant will be used. (100 words) Chavenelle is volunteering her time and has/is donating steel, welding and plasma cutting tools for design and maquette creation. Art Gumbo funding will cover the cost of metal, computer CadCam conversion, laser cutting and shop time at Giese Metal fabricators. Funding may also cover final transportation and installation costs.
LAUREN SIEBERT A New World in Our Hearts: An Audio and Comics Documentary of Consensus Process in Occupy Movement
Project summary describe the specific project you would like to accomplish with these funds. Include collaborators, medium (s), and what you intend to accomplish. (200 words max) I am extremely interested in the explosion in the number of people using consensus process to make decisions in Occupy Movement. This is the first time that many have used or even heard of this form of non-hierarchical and leaderless voluntary association. I want to find out more about how people are engaging with the process, and what it means to them. This project will use comics and podcasts to creatively document the ways people in Occupy movement have decided to organize themselves through leaderless and non-hierarchical consensus process. I plan to travel to three different Occupy camps and interview participants about how they have structured their general assembly and consensus process, what role they take in Occupy, and what they believe is the value of leaderless, non-hierarchical organization to the movement. From these interviews, I will produce a series of podcasts about the structure of each group at the time that I visited. These audio-documentaries will include interviews, as well as my own observations about the camps. Additionally, I will produce a series of mini-comics that include diagrams of the camps and flowcharts of the consensus process, as well as four-panel cartoons featuring highlights from the interviews. How will your project impact the Dubuque community? (100 words max) For this project, I want to visit Occupy groups in Dubuque, Madison, and Chicago. I believe that these three locations represent distinct differences in demographics, prior engagement with traditional politics and/or activism, and likelihood of previous exposure to consensus process. My project will have both an immediate and historical importance for Dubuque, because it will document the communitys dynamic interaction with the living process of consensus structuring, as well as its contribution to the fluid Occupy movement. If awarded, how will you present your accomplishments at the next ART GUMBO in 3 months? (60 words) I would prepare a presentation of highlights from the podcasts and comments on my experiences interacting with the Occupy camps. I would also provide free copies of the comics to participants, as funds allow. If awarded, how will you use funding (up to $750) towards the realization of your project? Please include details of how the grant will be used. (100 words) Here is a summary of how I would use the funds: $200 Travel to Occupy cities, $300 Professional handheld recorder, $50 USB microphone, $100 Art supplies for creating the comics, $100 Photocopies of mini-comics.