What is a Grant Project?
Grants are monetary awards to help further an artist’s growth or for specific projects. In 2020 and 2021, I was awarded the Individual Artist Decentralization Grant funded by the New York Foundation for the Art and the New York State Council for the Art for two distinct projects. The 2020 Project was one of discovery. For the duration of the calendar year, my goal was to explore and understand my new community by starting with the roots. My goals were to use only wools and natural dyes gathered from the county to depict the breathtaking landscapes in my new space. Despite the COVID Pandemic, this project was a success yet the process, which was originally set to have more of a community focus, became one of meditative therapy. Consequently, when I had the opportunity to apply for a second grant, I decided to enter into a collaborative project with woodworker, James Roslund, that would explore the creative outlets people explored in the first few weeks of the COVID 19 Pandemic.