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Project End Date (no <br />later than June 30, <br />2024) <br />May 31, 2024 (awaiting news re funding to confirm dates but these are a possiblity for <br />our team) <br />Project/Program <br />Summary <br />I am requesting funds to expand the material and collaborative scope of a previously <br />funded nomadic collage workspace called The Collage Stop. Our events have included <br />a craft table at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, collage workspaces and exhibitions at <br />ATIONC, a COVID informed international mail-art event and First Friday classroom <br />events at Eno Arts Mill. <br />Since 2018, participants at Collage Stops have been invited to make collage from <br />scraps purchased from local and national artists. Along with the opportunity to learn <br />more about the material practices of these artists though their scraps, our events <br />have explored the social metaphors and aesthetic potential of inviting participants to <br />make collage with an artist's trimmings, failures and negative spaces. <br />In this project we'll facilitate a community collage made of felt birds and natural <br />pigments made from earth collected in this region. The making of pigments will be <br />guided by Hillsborough artist Natalia Torres Del Valle. This iteration of of the Collage <br />Stop is inspired by recent work made of felt by collage stop co-creators Erin <br />McCluskey W heeler and Meredith Haggerty. It also builds upon work Erin introduced <br />while she was visiting artist at Creighton University and invited students to bring her <br />their failed two dimensional work. From these, Erin made paper birds which were <br />installed in the University's gallery. <br />This project will culminate in 70-110 felt birds installed in a large, front facing window <br />at Eno Arts Mill. Thus far, our working titles explore the meanings of our materials: felt <br />and dirt. W e also intend to work with metaphors that play with the heartbreak of a bird <br />mistaking glass windows for sky and the alternative metaphor of a murmuration of <br />starlings seamlessly soaring through glass. <br />Although we await news of funding to finalize dates, we have Katie Murray's support in <br />proposing two free public workshops to make the birds followed by a window exhibition <br />at Eno Arts Mill. The first workshop is a natural pigment class with Natalia that <br />coincides with a Teen Arts Collective meeting. The second workshop will be a First <br />Friday classroom event where felt birds will be created using handheld garment <br />steamers (with supervision for children) to shape the felt and then guided application <br />of pigment to the felt pieces. Once the pigment is dry (approx 2 days), we'll use <br />suction cups to install the birds in a window at the Mill. The birds will remain installed <br />for a month and visitors to the next First Friday will be able donate funds toward <br />community programs at the Mill in order to purchase a bird. <br />W e're especially drawn to the Mill due to the classroom's existing function as a <br />community project space on First Fridays, the large windows and the awning which <br />allows for outdoor viewing of this piece even if there is poor weather. <br />W e are also excited to continue partnership with Hillsborough art therapist Courtney <br />Powers who brings experience with programs at Eno Arts Mill, expertise in community <br />art facilitation and has supported Collage Stop events since 2019. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 925E138B-3BBF-4789-AE40-60FB6635D70B