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Artist Description W e will work with at least one local BIPOC artist on the banner design: TJ <br />Mundy is an intersectional artist, who self-describes as Black, trans, queer, <br />and neurodivergent. Their work uses “vibrant colors, weighted lines, and <br />automatic/intuitive movements to create freeflowing linework and asemic <br />writing.” Their digital work, in turn, is “bold, direct, using bright eye-catching <br />colors and imagery to express the immediacy and importance of the <br />issues.” TJ Mundy has worked extensively with the Orange County Arts <br />Commission and the Eno Arts Mill, and has designed work for a variety of <br />local and regional government and non-profit agencies. <br />Are you hiring <br />multicultural artists <br />with the requested <br />funds from this <br />grant? <br />Yes <br />For each multicultural <br />artist you intend to <br />hire, please list their <br />name, race, and how <br />much you plan to pay <br />them. <br />TJ Mundy describes themselves as Black. W e anticipate creating three <br />banners with TJ and will pay them $2000 for their iterative design work, <br />done in collaboration with other members of the project team. <br />How will the <br />project/program be <br />publicized and <br />promoted to reach <br />intended <br />participants? <br />W e will use the large OCCRC network—which includes representatives <br />from a broad range of organizations—to reach deep into the community. <br />W ith each move of the exhibit, we will promote its new location through <br />online and print newsletters, social media, traditional print media, church <br />bulletins, and word of mouth, as well as through focused announcements at <br />every OCCRC event. The shifting exhibit schedule will also appear on the <br />OCCRC’s online calendar. Finally, we will assist each new exhibit host with <br />their own promotion, suggesting both usable textual and visual content and <br />outreach approaches. <br />How will you <br />evaluate the success <br />of the program? <br />Assessing “success” will always be difficult for long-term, moveable <br />exhibits like this one. Given the variety of sites to which this display will <br />travel, and the range of audiences that will encounter it, no single <br />evaluation measure will likely reveal its impact. Especially since much of <br />that impact will probably be experienced after the exhibit encounter. It’s one <br />thing to gaze in passing at jars of soil and their accompanying bannered <br />narratives; it’s quite another to step into soil at some later date (while <br />gardening, for instance) and have those jars—and their wrenching reasons <br />for being—return to consciousness. That’s where the impact—and the <br />subsequent reflections—happens. <br />Nonetheless, we will invite our hosting sites to create appropriate <br />evaluative measures. In schools, for instance, we will ask teachers to <br />invite student assessments; in community sites, we might achieve the <br />same end through paper response forms available near the exhibit. <br />Additionally, we will include a QR code on one of the banners that will link <br />viewers to a page on the OCCRC website where they can record their <br />responses. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 5C6A01E1-DC9B-4C6D-A69F-25955310CCCC