2020-728-E-Arts Commission-Meredith Haggerty

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Community Impact Community building is at the heart of The Collage Stop, as it connects participants with art and the artists providing the scraps through activ e engagement and creativ ity. Each event is intended to serv e as an opportunity to explore how we might use and transform seemingly useless materials through exchange and artistic practice. The feedback loop between the artists and the participants sparks ideas and pav es new ways of seeing materials, making space for creativ e processes to shift and unfold. The first phase of The Collage Stop hosted community gatherings in public and art spaces. In this iteration, we intend to offer through mail art a gesture that meets the insularity of the pandemic with personal connection and follows current social distancing guidelines. W e prepare for about 250 participants including families, BIPOC and people with disabilities. This number accounts for a concentrated number of participants from Orange County and surrounding areas in North Carolina (people that hav e attended a Collage Stop in the past or follow the Art Centers and organizations that will help promote this project) and in Richmond, CA (where Erin offers classes and workshops at the Richmond Art Center and The NIAD Art Center). Participation would benefit from the relationships The Collage Stop has built with past participants, artists and art centers. Finally, we want this event to be accessible to anyone, including participants with minimal resources. Our budget includes twelve complete basic collage kits to send to participants who reach out to us with limited access to supplies. The kit will include items such as (new, packaged) children's scissors and a glue stick. Artist Experience Erin and I each hav e experience in facilitating public collage spaces and mail-art projects. The Collage Stop ev ents in 2019-early 2020 at the Carrboro ArtsCenter and The North Carolina Institute of Art Therapy were well attended with participant flow throughout the ev ents and about 180 participants total. Participants at the Arts center were inv ited to make a seasonal card to giv e or send to someone. This worktable was featured as the craft component of the annual ELF holiday market. Participants at the NCATI were inv ited to create then install their collages in the gallery located within the NCATI. This event resulted in a group show that filled the gallery walls. Erin and I frequently contribute to national and international mail art projects. Erin recently began sending color- themed collage kits to her students and collectors and has created 86 of these kits since later April. My recent mail-art projects are "Looking In, Looking Out” in which I hav e mailed ov er 60 hand-cut, paper “Black liv es matter” signs to various national destinations and "please send flowers", in which participants send me cut paper flowers with which I will make a single collage. As of early August, I hav e receiv ed 74 flowers from 23 participants. PROJECT/PROGRAM BUDGET Please fill out the charts below with your project's expenses and income. Use the "Explanation" box to offer details for each category. NOTE: The Total Cash Expense must equal the Total Cash Income. Budgeted Expense eba08b5f-0e63-469d-b85a-fc39454c18db.xlsx Budgeted Income bd6bfe2c-6b51-4117-a748-d9378e90a88c.xlsx Resumes of artists/administrators Erin_McCluskey_Wheeler_Artist_CV-1.pdf MeredithHaggerty.ArtResume.2020.pdf Publicity Samples ArtsCenterYourthpromo_collagestop_2019ElfMarket.PNG CollageStopInstagrampost_forElfMarket2019.PNG ATIofNCInstagrampostCollageStopPromotionFeb2020.PNG Erin_McCluskey_Wheeler_Studio_Visit_The_Studio_W ork.pdf August_Featured_Artist_Collage_and_Community_Art_with_Meredith_Haggerty_-_Orange_Co._Arts_Commission.pdf Work Samples Todays_Colors_Erin_McCluskey_W heeler_2020_with_stitched_goldpaper_and_text_scraps_from_Meredith_Haggerty.JPG Prepping_collage_kits-for-mailing_ErinMW_2020.jpeg install_shot_shelfspacegallery_cyanotypecollage_flowerwhalo_scrap_prayerparty_scrapfabric_fromAretsCenter_Carrboro_flagsMeredith_Haggerty2019.JPG PreliminaryStudy_Please_Send_Flowers_mail-artproject_MeredithHaggertywithflowersfrom8participants2020.jpg fromLookingIn_Lookingout_BLMwindowsign_mailartproject_MeredithHaggerty2020.jpg Video Sample: External Link n/a Letters of support (optional)n/a DocuSign Envelope ID: F44C74B7-885F-4BDA-88FE-363293FD6A8E