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Julia Kirt, Executive Director

405-879-2400

Opportunities

OVAC Project Grants

Momentum Spotlight

Art 365 Exhibition

Opportunities

We WANT you to apply! OVAC Project Grants 1/15

Momentum Spotlight 10/19

Art 365 Exhibition 11/1

What’s the Same? • FOR DEFINITE PROJECT: describe

o Idea?

o Why?

o How long will it take?

o What scale?

o What public result?

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Grace Grothaus (Art 365)

OK Landscape: from cornfields to oilfields

Beginning with westward expansionism and

continuing through the oil boom to today,

the landscape of Oklahoma has been

redefined and sculpted by industry. I plan to

create a series of ten translucent and backlit

landscape paintings that illustrate that history

by choosing sites across Oklahoma where the

mesh of organic systems and industrial

modification is apparent and depicting

them.

OK Landscape: from cornfields to oilfields

Beginning with westward expansionism and

continuing through the oil boom to today, the

landscape of Oklahoma has been redefined

and sculpted by industry. I plan to create a

series of ten translucent and backlit

landscape paintings that illustrate that history

by choosing sites across Oklahoma where the

mesh of organic systems and industrial

modification is apparent and depicting

them.

Grace titled her work to describe her idea in a simple way.

She starts with a big idea

Explains why this work? Clear # & type of artworks

My paintings have always hovered near abstraction while still retaining their representational origins. However with this series I would like to allow the works to dissolve more fully into abstraction, allowing color and gestural line to convey more feeling than representation alone allows.

Which is not to say that the paintings won’t be based in representation. By hiring local pilots I plan to take aerial photographs that I can use as a jumping off point for expressive, panoramic compositions. Each painting will be a long horizontal, roughly 2’x 4.’

how her work will grow & develop

Details about how she’ll create

Details on size & shape

These industrial landscape paintings

represent the modification of the

Oklahoma landscape over time. The

materials (leaves, industrial mylar, & electronics) and the composition will

work together to illustrate the complex

relationship between the natural world

and industry inherent in the world

today.

Nice details about materials

Why the materials are right for THIS idea!

Additionally I am interested in exploring

the use of motion detectors such as

infrared sensors to make the paintings

viewer responsive…. I have already

begun experimenting with wiring LED

lights in parallel and series, both rows

and branching patterns. Adding sensors

to the LED lights will open up a world of

possibilities compositionally. It will allow

me to move beyond the static image as

well as surprise and more fully engage

the interested viewer with the paintings.

New ideas she’s trying and why

What’s the Same? • IS OR WILL BE MADE: describe

o Materials?

o Quantity?

o Size(s) or time?

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Margaret Kinkeade: Momentum Spotlight OKC 2012

Using the timeless forms of Shaker furniture and craft I intend to create an

installation, working title “Fragile Stillness and Strength”, in which the viewer can

imagine what it would look like if traditionally feminine materials were applied

to masculine craft and vice-versa. I plan to create a Shaker style kitchen table

and two chairs constructed out of translucent, unglazed, slipcast porcelain

2x4’s of various lengths. The 2x4’s will be joined together with yarn or twine in

the place of metal screws or nails, creating an unstable and unusable

centerpiece that will be illuminated by the light that passes through it’s uneven

surfaces. To create a striking juxtoposition, the ceramic furniture will be flanked

by a pair of hanging, backlit, hand-plasmacut steel twin bed sized “quilts”.

One of the quilts will showcase the “Wedding Ring” pattern and the other

“Rooftop” pattern, both of which I feel represent women’s traditional goal and

understood private realm. Each quilt will be incised with both the pattern

stated above and a series of created “fabric scrap patterms”, by using steel

the usefulness of the quilt will be removed in the same vain as the ceramic

table and chairs. The use of Shaker style furniture is in part due to the

iconographic nature of their forms, but primarily due to the fact that the

Shakers have always been regarded as an egalitarian society who valued

simplicity in form and life while always striving to do whatever they choose to

do the best that they are able to. What is so interesting to me is that even

within a group where men and women are seen as equals in both the public

and private realms women’s work still consists of primarily domestic duties such

as cleaning the home and crafts such as garment construction. Thank you for

the opportunity to apply for Momentum Spotlight and for the chance to have

curatorial guidance for my proposed installation.

Margaret Kinkeade: Momentum Spotlight OKC 2012

I plan to create a Shaker style kitchen

table and two chairs constructed out of

translucent, unglazed, slipcast porcelain 2x4’s of various lengths. The 2x4’s will be

joined together with yarn or twine in the

place of metal screws or nails, creating

an unstable and unusable centerpiece

that will be illuminated by the light that

passes through it’s uneven surfaces. To

create a striking juxtoposition, the

ceramic furniture will be flanked by a

pair of hanging, backlit, hand-

plasmacut steel twin bed sized “quilts”.

Clear details about idea, materials, sizes, & methods to produce

What’s the Same? • PROJECTS CHANGE

o Can be modified as artist encounters realities of

production

o Should change with curator

and/or venue's input

Margaret Kinkeade

Final project different than proposal, which is fine

What’s the Same? • IMAGE SAMPLES VITAL

o Puts your work in best light

o Your style

o Shows past art/projects

What’s the Same? • CONTINUITY EXPECTED

o Artwork & ideas should align

o Explain big differences from

past work

Grace Grothaus

Margaret Kinkeade

Jereldine Redcorn

What’s the Same? • ABILITY TO COMPLETE

DEMONSTRATED IN APPLICATION

o Detail orientation

o Sound planning

o Conceptual strength

Grant requests can be brief if cover all questions.

Pedestals for Booth Upgrade

I attend 5 art shows each year: Heard

Museum in Phoenix, Red Earth, Cherokee

Art Market, Southeast Art Market of the

Chickasaw Nation and Caddo Mounds in

Alto, Texas. My booth needs an upgrade

to present my work more effectively. My

project is to purchase pedestals for my

booth. I have selected collapsible

pedestals from Armstrong Products, Professional Displays, Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Clear what she needs & why.

What’s the Same? • ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

o Prepare before applying

o Digital files

o Online forms

What’s the Same?

• THIS ALL ARE FOR

OKLAHOMA

ARTISTS!

What’s different? • Goals for each program

• Award size: $

• Curatorial guidance

• Eligibility

• Expectations

• Venues

• Review process

• Support materials

MOMENTUM SPOTLIGHT: DEADLINE OCTOBER 19, 2012

• 3 Oklahoma artists

• $2,000 award each

• Guest Curators: Plug Projects

• Opens March 2013

• Location TBD in OKC

MOMENTUM SPOTLIGHT: ELIGIBILITY

• Proposal for new body of work

• Age 30 or younger

• Can be students

• Can be collaborative proposal

MOMENTUM SPOTLIGHT: REVIEW

• Guest curator selects from proposals

• Appropriate project for the gallery space

• Innovative idea

• Readiness for the opportunity

MOMENTUM SPOTLIGHT: PROPOSAL

• Title & Description <350 words

• Artist Statement

• Resume

• 5-10 artwork samples & details

• URL to video if working in film/media

• ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

ART 365 EXHIBITION: DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2012

• 5 Oklahoma artists

• $12,000 award each

• Guest Curator: Raechell Smith

• Opens March 2014

• Location: Artspace at [Untitled], OKC &

Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa

ART 365 EXHIBITION: ELIGIBILITY

• Proposal for new body of work

• Age 21 or older

• Not degree-seeking art students

• Can be collaborative proposal

ART 365 EXHIBITION: REVIEW

• Guest curator selects

• Around 10 finalists from proposals

• Studio visits

• Appropriate project for the gallery space

• Innovative idea

• Readiness for the opportunity

ART 365 EXHIBITION: PROPOSAL

• Title & Description <350 words

• Artist Statement

• Resume

• 10-15 artwork samples & details

• URL to 10 min video if film/media artist

• Support materials (up to 3)

ART 365 EXHIBITION: Application allows for

support materials

• Consider what strengthens your case

• Show new materials or back up your

ability to make big changes from your

previous work

Margaret Kinkeade,

Momentum Spotlight

• ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS: DEADLINES OCTOBER 15,

JANUARY 15, APRIL 15, JULY 15

• 4 grant types for artists’ own projects

• $250-$1,400 each

• Last year OVAC gave 24 grants

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS: ELIGIBILITY

• Age 21 or older

• Not degree-seeking art students

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS: TYPES

• Professional Basics Grant $500

• Education Grant $500

• Creative Projects Grant $1,400

• Community/Artist Partnership Grant $1,200

• See recent recipient profiles on blog

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS: REVIEW • Grants Committee selects based on criteria. All:

• Ability to complete

o Appropriate to career stage, career-altering,

o Concept and quality of project

• Creative Projects

o Excellence of Artwork

• Community Partnership:

o Community Benefit

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS: PROPOSAL

• Title & Description

• Artist Statement

• Resume

• 5-10 artwork samples & details

• URL to video if working in film/media

• Timeline

• Budget

OVAC ARTIST GRANTS:

ONLINE SUBMISSION

Opportunities

Example: Proposals

Opportunities

Questions?

Opportunities

We WANT you to apply! OVAC Project Grants 10/15, 1/15

Momentum Spotlight 10/19

Art 365 Exhibition 11/1 Thanks for coming.

Julia Kirt, Executive Director

405-879-2400