Heyo BingoRagers; I salute yous.
Heyo OAC jurors/panelists; welcome to the BingoRage! Thanks, in advance, for taking the time to check out this extra material, on your own time. I spent a week reading applications this spring and I appreciate the extra effort.
So, here's the deal:
I am applying for an Ontario Arts Council (OAC),
Northern Arts Grant, in collaboration with
Spirit Fire Park (the park"), in Devlin, Ontario.
The grant application is seeking to fund four project elements:
- The extension of a multipurpose mural-wall, with a "theatrical-stage" background element at the park.
- The delivery of a mural-painting workshop for local youth program,
UMAYC (fort Frances) (with a contingent paintball event, depending on
United Native Friendship Centres program safety guidelines), culminating in a two-day mural-painting event at the park.
- The construction and installation of monumental papier-mache sculpture in the park, including: a) premade elements molded on steel, foam and clay armatures, and b) smaller elements constructed onsite, with a methodology developed through the "Arthur, Warrior and his Bow, Excalibur" project.
- The public "presentation"/opening of the park's new installations, including a performance by NorthWestern Ontario's well-known musician,
Rodney Brown and a guided "theatrical tour" of the park. Mr. Brown's repertoire includes historical songs about the region. The park's campground will be opened to the public in order to encourage an intimate relationship with the land and the art.
This blog-posting will be updated throughout the grants application process so that application jurors/panel will have the opportunity to review materials that wouldn't fit in the application packet. That includes updated materials that come-to-be after the application deadline and older stuff that would never fit.
As far as I know, no other OAC or CCA grant application has been, essentially, shared outside the jury process. I hope that by doing so, that the entire project will benefit by word-of-mouth and word-of-social network. As well, I hope that this publication of the effort will lead to increased grant application success in "the north", as well as for other artists outside the major urban/art centres.
Works on this site fall under a Creative Commons "Non-commercial, Share-alike" License (see sidebar). You can reuse them,
with attribution, for non-commercial purposes. If you want to use it as an assist for preparing your own grant application, please attribute appropriately. If there is something in the post, or elsewhere on the blog, that you would like to make into a t-shirt or major motion picture, then we need to "par-lay".
"TinyURL" for this posting is : http://tinyurl.com/m9t6gv
[All pics click to enlarge.]
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First off; I mentioned the "test-wall" in our grant application, but didn't include a picture in the supplemental materials. We built a section of our proposed wall with sponsor,
Lakewood Tire (Fort Frances), in the summer of 2007.
The mural-wall consists of: upright posts cemented into the ground by concrete, connected by plywood sheets, kept upright by 2"x4" lumber braces (until concrete dries) and protected by latex exterior paint, which also serves as a neutral background for mural installation.
My buddy, Joseph Carlson, proprietor of Spirit Fire Park and our project's engineer and landscaper.
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Recent additions to the test-wall include park logo, paintball team logos, sculptural elements and safety instruction.
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Some Google "Sketchup" mockups of the "mural-wall" extensions. The proposed actual additions will will be in a slightly different configuration (coming). For instance, the theatre stage background will be narrower, with beveled "wings" and a sand-pad "stage", instead of a poured concrete pad (for now).
The proposed layout of the mural wall will differ from these initial sketches and will be updated shortly.
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