Our work will be included in the exhibition I Am Prepared for Amazing Things to Happen, September 23rd- October 29th, 2016 at La Esquina Gallery in Kansas City, MO. Presented by the Charlotte Street Foundation (http://charlottestreet.org/), the exhibition presents work that operates at the intersection of vision and action, offering methods for making alternate futures possible.
Innovation in the arts grant
We are fortunate to be able to continue our project on innovation with the help of a University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Arts, Innovation, Activation Grant. This grant supports engaged research, scholarship and programming found at the intersections of arts, innovation and activation of space. Working off of our successful Innovation District Tour that we created for the Causeway Challenge, we will now focus on place-based innovation in other locations. This grant will fund the production of a new book series called How Not What, based on interviews we will conduct with several artists and organizers who have been working in a variety of places overtime. Look for these publications in 2017!
Causeway "Play" Challenge
Our proposal for a Chattanooga Innovation District Tour is one of 10 projects chosen by Causeway, in response to their Play Challenge. Causeway is a nonprofit social innovation studio that exists to help people solve Chattanooga's toughest challenges. This year they asked: “How can more opportunities to play make Chattanooga a stronger city?” Our response proposes to create a bike tour of the recently designated Innovation District, each stop on the tour will feature local experts talking about innovation that already exists in this area of the city. Through Causeway’s support we will produce this tour and a companion publication, look for them in the spring of 2016.
NYSCA Artist Crossroads Grant
We are pleased to announce that we have received an artist grant from the ARTS council of the Southern Finger Lakes, part of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization Program. This grant, which supports individual artists in the creation of unique, site specific, and multi-disciplinary public art projects will fund a summer workshop for kids, installation, and public events in partnership with the Hornell Community Arts Center. Working in the rural community of Hornell, New York, this project will use the symbolism of cycling to engage residents in a conversation about the present and future of their city and how individuals share knowledge with their neighbors.
Nashville Artists Drink Beer (NADB)
We will be sharing our work at one of COOP gallery’s NADB events on Friday April 3rd at Craft Brewed in Nashville. This talk will be an introduction to some of our work featured at COOP, April 4th-24th 2015