Labels: CreateHere, F.A.M.P., MakeWork
Awarded grant from MakeWork, CreateHere
0 Comments Published by Mark Mcleod on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 3:59 PM.
I was recently awarded a grant through MakeWork, part of the CreateHere initiative in Chattanooga. The funds will be used over the course of a year to develop an entirely new body of work. Check back often for updates.
From the MakeWork website:
In Chattanooga, we take our artists seriously, so we support them financially. MakeWork is an arts grant program open to emerging and established artists and artisans within a 50-mile radius of Chattanooga. The core mission of the program is to stimulate our city’s creative economy and empower artists and artisans with the tools to succeed and grow. Rising and established artists alike are eligible for assistance for studio rental, tools, workshops, and those "someday-I´d-love-to" projects.
Adding to the bottom line of creativity. It’s a beautiful thing.
MakeWork debuted in January 2008. Since then the program has awarded $450,000 to 55 artists and artisans, an investment in Chattanooga’s creative community that has stimulated cultural and economic development for our entire city. MakeWork recipients include cheesemakers, portrait artists, musicians, cutting edge graphic designers, and performing artist. Along with sharing their work with the community, MakeWork artists commit to attend sustainability sessions through SpringBoard and participate in a showcase of their work.
Granting to the arts, rather than taking them for granted.
Join us for a Public Showcase on Friday, July 23, 2010 from 6 to 9 PM at CreateHere.
This event will be an opportunity to meet past and present MakeWork recipients and hear about the projects that will take place during the 2010 cycle.
2010 Grantees
This year 153 Chattanooga area artists and artisans applied, requesting just over $1.6 million. We are pleased to announce that the following applicants were selected for funding as part of the 2010 MakeWork Grant Cycle:
Recipient Name | Discipline
Grant Title
Nora Bernhardt | Visual Arts (3D)
Book Arts Teaching Studio
Wendy & Brandon Buckner | Culinary Arts
A Sweet Tooth for Growth and Knowledge
Aaron Cabeen | Visual Arts (3D)
Equipment Provision for Original Furniture Production
Carlos Colon | Performing Arts
Latin Beat Percussion Classes
Shane Darwent | Visual Arts (2D)
The Flag in Our Hands: A lens based look into America during 2009
Matthew Downer | Other
Slowtime Field Recordings
Linda Duvoisin | Visual Arts (2D)
Linda Edits on the Fly
Caleb Ludwick | Literary Arts
SOUTHSIDE: Eight Short Stories in the Verbal and the Visual
Frances McDonald | Other
Workshops on Public Art Collaborations
Mark Mcleod | Visual Arts (3D)
The Fiscal Asset Management Program (FAMP)
Bridget Miller |Visual Arts (3D)
Creative Eco-Friendly Clothing Line by Astronette: Spring/Summer Collection 2011
Christopher Oughtred |Visual Arts (2D)
Marketing my existing business, North Light Imaging, by creating a stronger web presence (rebuilding my website)
Leif Ramsey |Visual Arts (2D)
Black Friday, a 90-minute documentary film
Justin Wilcox|Performing Arts
Transportation Grant for Moonlight Bride
From the MakeWork website:
In Chattanooga, we take our artists seriously, so we support them financially. MakeWork is an arts grant program open to emerging and established artists and artisans within a 50-mile radius of Chattanooga. The core mission of the program is to stimulate our city’s creative economy and empower artists and artisans with the tools to succeed and grow. Rising and established artists alike are eligible for assistance for studio rental, tools, workshops, and those "someday-I´d-love-to" projects.
Adding to the bottom line of creativity. It’s a beautiful thing.
MakeWork debuted in January 2008. Since then the program has awarded $450,000 to 55 artists and artisans, an investment in Chattanooga’s creative community that has stimulated cultural and economic development for our entire city. MakeWork recipients include cheesemakers, portrait artists, musicians, cutting edge graphic designers, and performing artist. Along with sharing their work with the community, MakeWork artists commit to attend sustainability sessions through SpringBoard and participate in a showcase of their work.
Granting to the arts, rather than taking them for granted.
Join us for a Public Showcase on Friday, July 23, 2010 from 6 to 9 PM at CreateHere.
This event will be an opportunity to meet past and present MakeWork recipients and hear about the projects that will take place during the 2010 cycle.
2010 Grantees
This year 153 Chattanooga area artists and artisans applied, requesting just over $1.6 million. We are pleased to announce that the following applicants were selected for funding as part of the 2010 MakeWork Grant Cycle:
Recipient Name | Discipline
Grant Title
Nora Bernhardt | Visual Arts (3D)
Book Arts Teaching Studio
Wendy & Brandon Buckner | Culinary Arts
A Sweet Tooth for Growth and Knowledge
Aaron Cabeen | Visual Arts (3D)
Equipment Provision for Original Furniture Production
Carlos Colon | Performing Arts
Latin Beat Percussion Classes
Shane Darwent | Visual Arts (2D)
The Flag in Our Hands: A lens based look into America during 2009
Matthew Downer | Other
Slowtime Field Recordings
Linda Duvoisin | Visual Arts (2D)
Linda Edits on the Fly
Caleb Ludwick | Literary Arts
SOUTHSIDE: Eight Short Stories in the Verbal and the Visual
Frances McDonald | Other
Workshops on Public Art Collaborations
Mark Mcleod | Visual Arts (3D)
The Fiscal Asset Management Program (FAMP)
Bridget Miller |Visual Arts (3D)
Creative Eco-Friendly Clothing Line by Astronette: Spring/Summer Collection 2011
Christopher Oughtred |Visual Arts (2D)
Marketing my existing business, North Light Imaging, by creating a stronger web presence (rebuilding my website)
Leif Ramsey |Visual Arts (2D)
Black Friday, a 90-minute documentary film
Justin Wilcox|Performing Arts
Transportation Grant for Moonlight Bride
Labels: CreateHere, F.A.M.P., MakeWork
Currency Research: Wampum
0 Comments Published by Mark Mcleod on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 5:58 PM.
In my research about the beginnings of trade and currency I came across this article on wampum. These systems of trade have had drastic impacts on the people and their culture.
"In 1609, Henry Hudson received wampum as a gift from upriver Indians. The first European credited with discovering the significance of wampum was Jacob Eelkes, a Dutch fur trader in the New Netherland colony. In early 1622, Eelkes seized a sachem of the Pequot on Long Island and threatened to cut off his head unless he received a large ransom. The sachem gave Eelkes wampum of over 840 feet in length, which Eelkes discovered would command many more pelts in trade among the Indians than European-made goods.
As a result, the two-trade system for the purchase of pelts quickly supplanted direct barter methods. The Dutch began both accepting and distributing wampum as a currency at their trading stations. They began an aggressive campaign of buying as much wampum as possible from coastal Algonquians and transporting it up the Hudson Valley, where it is scarcer, to trade for pelts among the Mahicans.
The sudden growth of wealth of Mahicans, who are considered a peaceful people by the Europeans, soon brought them into conflict with the Iroquois tribes of present-day upstate New York, resulting in the Mohawk-Mahican War.
Word of the value of wampum was spread to English settlers in Massachusetts by Isaak de Rasieres, the chief commercial agent of the Dutch West India Company, who informed Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony of the significance of the belts.
The system of wampum trading did not survive long after the arrival of Europeans. The Europeans introduced metal tools, specifically rasps and steel drills, that greatly reduced the labor needed to manufacture wampum. Additionally, the English in the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to manufacture wampum on their own.
In 1746, John Campbell established a wampum factory in what is now Park Ridge, New Jersey. The manufacture of wampum was a seasonal occupation which arose out of the need for establishing closer trading ties to remaining Native American tribes in the Pascack Valley region."
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/wampum/en-en/
"In 1609, Henry Hudson received wampum as a gift from upriver Indians. The first European credited with discovering the significance of wampum was Jacob Eelkes, a Dutch fur trader in the New Netherland colony. In early 1622, Eelkes seized a sachem of the Pequot on Long Island and threatened to cut off his head unless he received a large ransom. The sachem gave Eelkes wampum of over 840 feet in length, which Eelkes discovered would command many more pelts in trade among the Indians than European-made goods.
As a result, the two-trade system for the purchase of pelts quickly supplanted direct barter methods. The Dutch began both accepting and distributing wampum as a currency at their trading stations. They began an aggressive campaign of buying as much wampum as possible from coastal Algonquians and transporting it up the Hudson Valley, where it is scarcer, to trade for pelts among the Mahicans.
The sudden growth of wealth of Mahicans, who are considered a peaceful people by the Europeans, soon brought them into conflict with the Iroquois tribes of present-day upstate New York, resulting in the Mohawk-Mahican War.
Word of the value of wampum was spread to English settlers in Massachusetts by Isaak de Rasieres, the chief commercial agent of the Dutch West India Company, who informed Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony of the significance of the belts.
The system of wampum trading did not survive long after the arrival of Europeans. The Europeans introduced metal tools, specifically rasps and steel drills, that greatly reduced the labor needed to manufacture wampum. Additionally, the English in the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to manufacture wampum on their own.
In 1746, John Campbell established a wampum factory in what is now Park Ridge, New Jersey. The manufacture of wampum was a seasonal occupation which arose out of the need for establishing closer trading ties to remaining Native American tribes in the Pascack Valley region."
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/wampum/en-en/
Labels: CreateHere, F.A.M.P., MakeWork
