CityArts Awards Announced

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The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs just announced it's CityArts awards, totaling $225,000 to 38 individual artists working in visual, literary, film, and media arts.

A few of the more interesting visual arts projects receiving funding are listed below, excerpted from the press release. Notice the preponderance of Lawrimore Project artists, including this project, recently featured by Brian Barr.

Drew Daly, visual, $3,700, Visual Fiction. To create and exhibit a group of artworks that explore and exploit the separation that occurs between an object and the image of an object's forced perspective in sculpture, photos and videos.

Eric Eley, visual, $4,200, Tunguska sculpture. To create and exhibit a sculpture inspired by a meteoric explosion in the air above Siberia at the turn of the 20th century. Fabricated in aluminum and powder coated, the work explores hidden structures in landscape and atmosphere.

John Grade, visual, $10,000, Meridian. To create a sculptural installation choreographed to collapse and evolve while sited within two contrasting landscapes. The artist will capture the collapse of the sculpture on video.

Susie Lee, media, $7,500, The Indivisibility of a Line. To choreograph and present performances of an event merging dance with media. The dancers' movements will be tracked in real time - the projected image supported by a complex network of artificial intelligence including robotics.

Susan Robb, visual, $5,000, Project Sea-Ice Life Boat. To underscore global warming by creating and exhibiting an environmental, relational artwork that equips Alaskan polar bears with large raft sculptures made of recycled oil drums to resemble a floating sea ice.

Alex Schweder, visual, $7,000, Stability. To create "performance architecture" with two 4-foot by 6-foot dwelling units on either end of a 24-foot balance beam. Each unit will be occupied for one week by an artist. Separated by kitchen and bath, each unit will move in relation to other to keep the building level.

John Sutton, visual, $10,000, Mini-Mart City Park. To create a "sculptural intervention" using green building and art to turn a former gas station into an indoor city park and conservatory, commenting on contemporary society's civic roles/responsibility.

Lara Swimmer, visual, $2,000, The Palouse Project. To create and exhibit a series of large-scale mappings of wheat growing regions in Southeast Washington and Northern Idaho, through photo montage, topography, structures, roadways and multiple layers of information systems superimposed.

Dan Webb, visual, $5,000, Stone Carving. To create and exhibit a new body of work carving stone, marble, granite or alabaster for exhibition, exploring new ideas and themes for the artist.

Mark Zirpel, media, $7,000, Universal Theory. To create a mixed-media kinetic installation portraying the universe as observed phenomena. The exhibit will be designed by a series of orreries (apparatus displaying orbiting planets) powered by light analogous to the sun, with optical devices enhancing observations.

For a complete list, read this.

Congratulations, you all! I can't wait to see these projects realized.