Artist(s):
John Hogan & David Reich
Project Title:
Heretics Television Workshop
Description:
This project will convert the Monte Vista gallery space into a video production studio, exhibition space and performance venue in the interest of creating an art-video rock musical mini-series entitled Heretics Lost.
Heretics Lost is the story of seven friars sent to the New World to convert natives to Christianity, but who instead find themselves stranded on an island inhabited by feral maenads and a hermaphrodite chimera.
Heretics Lost consists of five half hour episodes. Our goal during Heretics Television Workshop is to complete production of the first episode and to screen it in the gallery at a closing event.
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
There are a number of musical numbers in Heretics Lost and a great deal of sound design and sound sculpture (the video footage is built around a previously existing radio play). Funds would be used to commission animators to assist in creating videos for individual songs within the episodes, and to pay our sound editor for his time and efforts.
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Artist(s):
Kristy Baltezore
Project Title:
This House is not a Home
Description:
Focusing on the basic human needs of food and shelter, a small house will be constructed of bread. Volunteers from across the city will be asked to donate bread of any kind and labor to help construct the house in one day. That evening (space permitting) volunteers may sleep in the house followed by a celebratory breaking of bread the next morning, wherein the house is eaten to the ground.
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
Majority of the money will go to materials and volunteer recruiting. Additional fees for permits may be required, but are not anticipated at this point.
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Artist(s):
Creative Migration
Project Title:
The Green American Road Trip
Description:
Creative Migration will expand our documentary web series on Green Patriot Posters (greenpatriotposters.org)—a project that uses dynamic graphic design to educate the public about global climate change—into a full-length feature.
Our next step is to become active participants by "greening" the classic American road trip by promoting pro-environmental behavior to Generation Y and expanding this grassroots visual campaign into a national movement for sustainable travel.
By demonstrating simple methods that are convenient/doable, not only will our experiment make a unique contribution, but also incite Millennials to become the "Greenest Generation" (Thomas L. Friedman).
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
In keeping with our project's ethos, this grant funding will invest in more technical equipment, so we continue to be a small, self-sustaining crew. This equipment is also reusable, and will aid in future productions.
Our immediate needs are as follows:
- additional external G-RAID hard drives for a comprehensive backup system
- sound equipment - Sennheiser lavaliers for interviews
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Artist(s):
Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. (Tom McKenzie & Steven L. Anderson)
Project Title:
ReRender
Description:
A microcosm of the struggle for tolerance in Arizona, Prescott is charged with divisiveness.
Working closely with the Peace and Justice Center of Prescott College, EEC Inc. will entice former Smoki tribe people—aging white figures of the local establishment who for 70 years publically performed bastardized versions of Hopi ceremonies—to remove their tattoos.
They will have the opportunity to replace them with tattoos designed through a series of meetings with area native people, anarchist collectives, immigrant rights activists, and other progressive voices.
With removal by a local gang tattoo removal service, replacement by reputed tattoo artists, the transformation will have a full-circle healing effect for the community.
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
An Artist Bailout grant will go towards funding meetings with the progressive voices of northwestern Arizona, creating a compendium of images and slogans, doing further research into the history and people of the Smoki, paying for grant applications to federal and state anti-gang programs (which will subsidize the tattoo removal and application phase).
Artist(s):
Louisa Van Leer
Project Title:
Stair Street Ghosts
Description:
“Stair Street Ghosts” is equal parts urban intervention and historical tour of a forgotten treasure in Los Angeles. In the 1930’s a dynamic woman named Cora Pond-Pope developed a tract of land in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park called Mt. Angelus which has many stairs streets (public sidewalks for hilly neighborhoods built when cars were the exception not the rule). Prior to developing the Mt. Angelus tract Pond-Pope was an influential shaper of the woman’s suffrage and temperance movements in Boston and created “the National Pageant” a theatrical recruiting device for the movement that traveled the country. In my research, I have discovered that many of the Mt. Angelus streets and stairways are named after people who figured prominently in Cora Pond-Popes own life including well known activists in the women’s suffrage movement as well as many abolitionists of the day, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and many of whom are less well known, such as Mary Livermore, a journalist, suffragette and founder of The Agitator and William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator an influential weekly abolitionist newspaper. Fast forward to 1987… five of the nine public stair streets on Mt. Angelus were closed by the Los Angeles City Council due to neighborhood complaints of crime. Today the stair streets are gated and much of the original street signage has disappeared over the years. My project, Stair Street Ghosts, proposes to resurrect the stairs, as if by historical séance, for just one day.
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
For the past 4 months I’ve been working with the Highland Park Heritage Trust, the Highland Park Neighborhood Council, the City and the residents of Highland Park/ Mt. Angelus to open all the stairways for a one day tour scheduled for this fall. The Artist Bailout Grant will be used to fabricate Ghost Signs for the stair streets with missing signage and to publish a booklet for the walking tour featuring a historical overview of Cora Pond-Pope, her multi-faceted life and the activists that helped shape her life. The Ghost Signs will replicate the historical street signs in the area, but the signs themselves will be made of translucent white plexiglas with opaque white lettering making them visible yet invisible, mirroring the ghostly aspect of the gated stairs themselves.
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Artist(s):
Kristen Smiarowski in collaboration with Robert Een
Project Title:
Groundswell
Description:
Groundswell is a site-specific dance for the Ballona Freshwater Marsh. It will presented on October 8th as part of Los Angeles’ 2011 World Festival of Sacred Music (www.festivalofsacredmusic.org).
As dawn breaks over the reed beds of the Ballona Wetlands, clusters of soaring, singing birds are joined by musicians and dancers in a site-specific performance that celebrates this 26-acre historic landscape and habitat. With choreography by Kristen Smiarowski and music by Robert Een, along with a large cast of dancers, instrumentalists and vocalists, Groundswell invites audience members to experience an active meditation on this urban sanctuary.
We will present two performances, including a sunrise show at 7:00am.
How an Artist Bailout grant will help make this project happen:
Groundswell features eleven dancers and eight musicians/singers. The majority of our expenses are related to performer fees. The Artist Bailout grant will be dedicated to these fees. We will combine the grant with funds raised from other sources in order to meet our goal.
Performer Fees for Groundswell:
Dancers (9 x $500)
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$4,500
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Student Dancers (2 X $100)
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$ 200
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Musicians/Singers (4 x $500)
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$2,000
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Student Singers (4 x $100)
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$ 400
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