2023-606-E-Arts Commission-Meredith Haggerty-2023-24 Arts Grants

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Artist Experience The Collage Stop workshops include events in Orange County that I have facilitated at The Carrboro ArtsCenter, The North Carolina Institute of Art Therapy and Eno Arts Mill. Participants at the ArtsCenter were invited to make a seasonal card to give or send to someone. This work table was featured as the craft component of the annual ELF holiday market. Participants at the NCATI were invited 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 with about 180 participants coming through the event. During the peak of COVID, we pivoted the format of the in person workshops to be a mail art workshop that drew around 190 participants from all over the world to request a free collage kit. Participants were invited to share their completed collages on a digital bulletin board and send their collages either back to us or pass along to a friend. In 2022, in partnership with the NCATI and Eno Arts Mill, we hosted an exquisite corpse workshop with scraps purchased form four local artists. The pieces were featured in an exhibition at Eno Arts mill the following month. Proceeds from the sale of two of the pieces went to NCATI. As part of the Collage Stop, Erin created a video workshop commissioned by the Richmond Art Center in California as part of their Creative Self Care series, inviting participants to go for a walk, pick up trash, and transform these findings into miniature landscape collages. In 2022, Erin was a visiting artist at Creighton University in Omaha, NE and invited students to transform their discarded, unfinished, practice, and unwanted art projects into a flock of paper birds that filled the gallery and flew out into the art building hallways. Through the Collage Stop, we have commissioned and repurposed scraps from artists including Sean Bailey, Holly Cahill, Jason Lord, Chieko Murasugi, Samir Knego and our own studio scraps. Our collaborators for this event are Natalia Torres del Valle and Courtney Powers. Natalia is Visual artist who creates images from pigments she processes from foraged soils, rocks, and plants. She is also a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate. She runs a bi-monthly expressive arts therapy group at the Eno Arts Mill called, "Teen Arts Collective." This group is free to LGBTQIA+ identifying teens. At aach session visual art materials are provided and teens are encouraged to bring supplies to express themselves in their favorite artistic medium (i.e. visual, music, writing, movement, drama). This group has become a safe and empowering space for teens to connect and feel seen. Courtney is a visual artist and Art Therapist in Orange County, NC. She has been program director at NCATI since 2018 including facilitation of participatory and community events in the classroom at Eno Arts Mill and the Carrboro office space/gallery. How do you plan to market your project? For this event we plan to rely primarily on our respective social media platforms and those of our partnering artists, groups and organizations. W e use featured materials to create original marketing material for each event. This marketing material will include images of the sample birds we create in order to practice before the event and reels and still images from the pigment making practice sessions and our workshop. 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 Expenses-english-rev ised.xlsx DocuSign Envelope ID: 925E138B-3BBF-4789-AE40-60FB6635D70B