Meyer Memorial Trust Grassroots Grant 2011 Presenta5on: November 29, 2010 Roya Amirsoleymani, Marissa Laubscher, Lisa HewiC & Ka5e Kelley
Meyer Memorial Trust Grassroots Grant 2011 Presenta5on: November 29, 2010
Roya Amirsoleymani, Marissa Laubscher, Lisa HewiC & Ka5e Kelley
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Founded in 2005, our mission is to create unique conditions that enrich, connect, and engage the greater Eugene community by repurposing public space as a platform for contemporary art and media experiences.
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Dr. John Fenn, President Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Marcela Mendoza, Vice President Executive Director of Centro Latino Americano
Isaac Marquez, Secretary Public Art Manager, City of Eugene
Mindy Linder, Treasure Steering Committee Member, Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene
Jill Hertz Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Jamie Hosler Co-Owner Bijou Arts Cinema
Michael Kinnison Neighborhood Empowerment Initiative, City of Eugene
Suzi Steffen Arts Editor, Eugene Weekly
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ENAC’s most successful events include Ten Tiny Dances in Monroe Park; the Andy Warhol Guerilla Film Festival; and Audio Impressions.
We combine participatory arts programming with public dialogues, educational salons, workshops, a web-based community arts publication, and artist residencies and commissions
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• Over 80 volunteers • 500 donors • Annual attendance totaling over 20,000 • Annual operating budget of $500,000
Last year, 90% of survey respondents agreed that ENAC’s events exposed them to art they would not have experienced otherwise.
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Quali!cations Vanessa Renwick
Camille Utterback
Seeper
ENAC History A three night festival (September 23-25, 2011) that will visually transform three Eugene landmarks through video projections by three artists representing local, national, and international practices and diverse perspectives on aesthetics, gender, politics, and sexual identity.
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Vanessa Renwick
Camille Utterback
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ENAC History The Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson Memorial House Whiteaker Neighborhood
Positioned on Skinner’s Butte in Whiteaker, the house is highly visible from downtown and the market district and is a treasured historical resource.
Vanessa Renwick (Portland, OR) works with experimental and poetic documentary forms to produce !lms, videos, and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. Her iconoclastic work re$ects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders and has been curated internationally in galleries, museums, and art festivals. Renwick is represented by PDX Contemporary Art.
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Camille Utterback
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Petersen Barn Community Center Bethel/Trainsong Neighborhood
Petersen Barn is located in Bethel neighborhood within close proximity to Trainsong Neighborhood where the majority of households fall below the median income level of Eugene as a whole and have limited access to services.
Camille UCerback (San Francisco, CA), an interna5onally renowned abstract ar5st, engages audiences through interac5ve installa5ons and exhibits and reac5ve sculptures. Her work has been exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY) and the Netherlands Ins5tute for Media Art.
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ENAC History Eugene Downtown Library: Central and accessible location, a landmark of downtown Eugene
Founded in 1998 Seeper (London, UK) is an interactive arts and technology collective whose work explores natural user interaction, responsive environments, devices, and architecture to create multi-sensory experiences and memories. Seeper has worked with such partners as Nokia, Volkswagen, Chanel, Intel, Nike, Sony Playstation, and the Glastonbury Music Festival.
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A collaboration among the following senior staff:
Arts Program Director • Artist relations • Projection venue coordination • City permit procurement • Partnerships with local government and neighborhood coalitions • Coordination of contracted technology/projection specialists • Project evaluation
Education & Community Outreach (ECO) Director • Online blog of artists, festival events, and community response • Sunday Salon - budget, venue coordination, and evaluations • Volunteer training/management
Communications Director • Marketing and promotion as far north as Portland • Print web, street-level advertising • Public/media relations
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Vanessa Renwick
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ENAC History The goal of (sub)Urban Projections is to provide accessible, affordable multimedia art in diverse neighborhoods that:
• serves as an enjoyable, educational, community-oriented experience
• engages participants from low socioeconomic backgrounds
• helps citizens celebrate and re-envision its public spaces through contemporary art
• secures participation and encourages future engagement in ENAC and other arts programs from individuals who do not regularly attend cultural events
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ENAC History Diverse Staff & Board Leaders in the arts, neighborhood enhancement, multiculturalism, academia, government, and economic sustainability whose academic and professional experience includes top-ranked arts and business programs, nonpro!ts, and universities
Notable Artists Andrea Zittel, Ryan Trecartin, raqs Media Collective, Nick Cave, Gabriel Orozco, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Margarita Cabrera, Harrell Fletcher, Miranda July
Media Coverage Art Papers, Art Ltd., X, Juxtapoz, The San Francisco Chronicle, TimeOut Chicago,The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Willamette Weekly, Eugene Weekly, The Stranger, BOMBlog, Art Lies, Glasstire
Past Funding William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Paul G. Allen Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Lane County Cultural Coalition, Collins Foundation, Lane County Arts Council & Cultural Coalition
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ENAC History Organization Budget: $500,000 Program/Admin Funding: 75%/25%
(sub)Urban Projections – Total Cost: $68,588
Grants Received: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation - $22,000 Oregon Arts Commission - Arts Build Communities - $6,000 Lane County Cultural Commission - $3,000 Lane County Arts Council - Community Arts Grant - $2,000
Meyer Memorial Trust Funds If received, Meyer Memorial Trust funds would be allocated to direct program expenses, speci"cally artist compensation and projection equipment for artistic displays.
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(sub)Urban Projections addresses the following community needs for arts and culture in the Greater Eugene area:
• Affordability
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• Diversity
• The Contemporary
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The primary outcomes of (sub)Urban Projec5ons, to be measured through in-‐person and e-‐mail surveys at and following the fes5val), are for a minimum of:
• 80% of respondents to indicate that the event was enjoyable, educa5onal, and/or increased their sense of community
• 25% of respondents to report income levels below Eugene’s median
• 80% of respondents to indicate that the event made them think differently about Eugene’s public spaces
• 15% of respondents to indicate that they do not regularly aCend arts or culture events