2017-18 RACC Professional Development Grants (Cycle 2)
The Professional Development Grant Program assists artists or arts administrators with opportunities that specifically improve their business management development skills and/or brings the artist or the arts organization to another level artistically. The RACC Board of Directors approved these Professional Development Grants on December 13, 2017.
Individual recipients:
Avantika Bawa – Development, research and experimentation at NES Artists Residency in Iceland. – $1,750
* Brittany Brock – Penlen School of Craft in North Carolina to study shoe and boot making with Amara Hark-Weber. – $1,000
* Kelly Campbell – Workshops at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference in Waterford, CT. – $1,700
* Shawn Demarest – Mojave National Preserve artist residency, exploring, photographing, sketching and painting. – $1,600
* Emmeline Eao – Research Khmer history and culture through archival studies with the Documentation Center of Cambodia. – $2,000
* Derek Ecklund – Environmental Sound Recording a residential art center by Fuse Art Space in the French Pyrenees. – $1,875
* Sita Fidler – Continuing Ed. Typography course at PNCA. – $495
* Aran Graham – 3D drafting software training from a sketch-up tutor to refine and produce better skills in scenic design. – $1,000
Midori Hirose – Solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara – $1,600
Tahni Holt – Travel expenses for SPOTLIGHT: USA, a platform of American Dance in Bulgaria. – $1,980
* Meg Hunt – Evolve portfolio by attending School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program focusing on Illustration and Visual Storytelling. – $1,600
* Tiffany Kirkpatrick – Working with weavers and designing textiles in Guatemala. – $1,800
* Carly Knowles – Website, branding and logo design for metal fabrication and casting workspace, Studio Flux. – $1,700
* Béalleka Makau – Research Octavia E. Butler at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. – $1,200
* Sarah Marguier – Carrer Coaching for Artists from Creative Capital. – $550
* Robbie McClaran – Portfolio reviews at the Houston FotoFest International 2018 – $1,700
* Jamie Minkus – Dance intensive hosted by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in Havanna, Cuba and studying Afro-Mexican dance in Vera Cruz, Mexico. – $1,500
* Julz Nally – Business coaching w/ Betsy Cordes – $1,500
* Nikole Potulsky – Travel expenses to Nashville for music apprenticeship with Chevy Nash. – $1,600
* Mary Rose – Action Theatre Improvisation with Ruth Zaporah and teachers from around the world. – $1,600
* Paul Rutz – Intaglio Etching with European Master in Rome, IT. – $1,500
Willa Schneberg – Poetry Forum of Kathmandu residency in Nepal. – $2,000
* Sora Shodo – Creating an online presence for Japanese Calligraphic Arts. – $1,800
* Jennifer Springsteen – Literary conference, Muse & The Marketplace conference in Boston, MA to network, learn, grow and pitch manuscript. – $1,400
* Eric Stachon – Producing Documentaries for Broadcast, the Web and Businesses is a one week workshop for independent filmmakers in Maine. – $1,750
* Kirista Trask – A professional branding package from Portland based graphic designer Hattie Macleod. – $1,000
* Timothy Van Cleave – Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, MO. – $1,200
* Daniel Wenger – Digital tools for exploring curated libraries/making tools available to the public by training with two local artists: Hugo Paris and Jessie Mejia – $1,500
Leni Zumas – Travel to NY, Philly, Minneapolis, and DC to give readings and talks on novel Red Clocks. – $1,000
Organization recipients:
Oregon Repertory Singers – Registration and per deim costs for Northwest Regional American Choral Directors Association Conference. – $450
*Rock Dojo – Travel expenses for the National Association of Music Merchants. – $1,750
*First time Project Grant recipients