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DocuSign Envelope ID: FDE6D6D7-3562-418C-9247-777BF0668992 <br /> 'roject/Program I am requesting funds to create a portable collage workspace and to <br /> Summary support two pop-up collage events here in Orange County, NC. This <br /> ongoing project, The Collage Stop, engages drop-in visitors at <br /> events in arts and public spaces. Visitors to The Collage Stop will be <br /> invited to make collage from scraps of local and national artists who <br /> work with paper, textile and other collage friendly materials. Funding <br /> is allocated to commission artists to save their scraps and for <br /> documentation of both pop-up events. <br /> The project originated from my own work in collage, which has led to <br /> curiosity about potential meaning of and use for the art materials I <br /> throwaway. I began saving my scraps several months ago. When I <br /> sift through them, I notice misfit stars, gold slivers and animal <br /> outlines: a language related to, but not the same as my completed <br /> works. Informed by Erin Wheeler's residence at the El Cerrito <br /> recycling center, Melissa Oresky's Collage Office at the Franklin <br /> Outdoor, the zero-waste studio practice of Holly Cahill and the <br /> pedagogical practice of Robert Peters, The Collage Stop will offer an <br /> opportunity to explore how we might use and transform seemingly <br /> useless materials through exchange and artistic practice. Important <br /> to this project are the social metaphors and aesthetic potential of <br /> inviting participants to make collage with an artist's trimmings, <br /> failures and negative spaces. I am also interested in the potential <br /> feedback loop between the artists and the participants who <br /> manipulate their scraps. <br /> Attached as support is my correspondence with Jenks Miller in which <br /> he expresses his intention to host an inaugural collage pop-up at the <br /> Carrboro ArtsCenter December Elf market. For this iteration, visitors <br /> will be invited to sit in a space devoted to crafting, take a break from <br /> their shopping and use my own salvaged studio scraps to make <br /> collage. <br /> For the second iteration, I have commissioned Erin McCluskey <br /> Wheeler and Holly Cahill to save scraps for a pop-up on February <br /> 14th in the NC Art Therapy Institute in the Carr Mill Mall. Collages <br /> made during this pop-up will be on display at the NC ATI gallery <br /> through mid-March. My supportive correspondence confirming use <br /> of the space with Lucy Li at the ATI is also included in the application. <br /> In terms of scrap-saving, I have support from local artist Elin O'Hara <br /> Slavick, Chicago artist/curator Holly Cahill, Chicago artist/educator <br /> Rhonda Wheatley and Erin McCluskey Wheeler, artist in residence at <br /> the El Cerrito recycling center. <br />