Microgrants for Waterloo Region Artists – 2022

Schneider's Girl 2008 - Mark Walton | The COVERT Collective

December 21, 2021

2022 WATERLOO REGION MICROGRANT AWARDS

JURY:
Tara Butler, Artistic Director, Dust and Soul Dance
Denis Longchamps, Executive Director, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
Shirley Madill, Executive Director, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Lisa O’Connell, Artistic Director, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation
Vanessa Spence, Artistic Director, Virtu Arts

Each artist was awarded $1,000 each representing 1-week of work to kick-start a new artwork.

ERIC ALMBERG: Travelling Cart Artist Workshops sharing skills, stories and perspectives with the pubic.

FITSUM AREGUY: potential of intimacies: short fiction exploring how long-standing norms and conventions for intimacy are evolving in the pandemic-era.

BAD CHILD: Spirals New Music Album. Spirals delves into generational trauma, love, grief, it is an experimental emotional expose. Utilizing a combination of analog and electronic elements .

MISSY BAUMAN: Demos toward her New album of folk music

SHERRY CZEKUS: Ghost Image Project:  A process to use photographic imagery visualized through text to generate new pathways to make artwork.

HALEY DIMECK: Choreographing a new contemporary dance solo, exploring concepts surrounding busyness and stress impacting one’s ability to truly relax.

ZACH EVANS-WHITLEY: Exploring how live vocal music, particularly choir and opera, can be modernized to address issues of social inequity.

BEHNAZ FATEMI: Large-scale pyramid-shaped sculpture complemented with a performance exploring COVID-19 news from around the world and investigating safety and self.

VANIA FENG: How do you choose what to believe”: a durational performance created by a 22 year-old Chinese-Canadian woman investigating Asian Hate Crimes during the pandemic.

STEPHANIE FLORENCE: Creation of a series of costumes or wearable sculptures to be used in public performance investigating climate change.

ELIZABETH FORREST: Exploration of Mokuhanga –  print making Japanese woodblock printmaking.

ASHLEY GUENETTE: Research on ‘temporal language’, toward creation of  large-scale paintings /murals using oil sticks and oil paint on stretched canvas.

KATHRYN HERNDEN: Creation of subversive quilts, including embroidering overtop of hand painted QR Codes. Recording marginalized communities.

BANGISHIMO JOHNSON: The Medicines We Carry featuring Indigenous peoples from many nations in the style of fine art photography. Each will adorn a crown or headpiece made of traditional medicines used by the Indigenous peoples living on these lands.

SCOTT KING: Post-Confederation Architecture: A Golden History in Canada”: A Photo essay of yellow brick buildings in the Kitchener-Waterloo region.

SHANNON LEIS: Exploration of natural materials for pigment making processes for painting and water colours to avoid plastic made acrylic paint.  (e.g. the bark from a tree, a stone from the path, a piece of moss, etc.)

RAECHELE LOVELL: New dance choreography exploring the intersections of Afrocentric and Eurocentric diasporas of classical/traditional dance techniques as it relates to contemporary movement and storytelling.

REED MCCAMMON: Printmaking project exploring the style of Felix Vallotton’s iconic woodcut printmaking-style that depicted crowds and city-life from 1891-1901 but with a focus on the changes to crowds and city-life that have happened as a result of the pandemic.

KATE KAMO MCHUGH: Creation of a ten-minute dance film exploring how an artist balances their artistry with caregiving, especially when it comes to motherhood.

MARY NEIL: Creation of a new  a song influenced by local Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox community chanting style of singing with ancient roots with the more contemporary style of electronic dance music (EDM).

AMY NEUFELD: WHY-TO humor  book about knitting, life and growing-up. For Middle-schoolers.

JACKIE PARTRIDGE: Series of cyanotypes prints based on wildflowers in Waterloo Region.

LAUREN PROUSKY: New body of work that explores sudoku puzzles as a form of concrete poetry, generative art and a catalyst for further cultural analysis.

BRENDA REID: The Weight of Lines, creation of  a double-sided quilt that depicts the Haldimand Tract through colonial and decolonial lenses.

CHRISTINA RESTOULE: Program  of traditional dance teachings to those who need cultural guidance in their life. Offered to Indigenous community members seeking to learn the traditional dance styles of Jingle Dress or Fancy Shawl.

ANDREW JACOB RINEHART: Festival of Harps: Twice annually community co-creation in public spaces  incorporating harp and silly fun.

GRACE SCHEELE: Not yr angel bby harpist is a solo interdisciplinary show that seeks to explore the media trope of the angelic/sacred and feminine idealization of the figure of the female harpist.

COLIN BOYD SHAFER: New podcast “(re) named” exploring in interviews the importance of names – the names we are given, the names we choose, and the names that are forced upon us.

ESTHER SLEVINSKY: Creation of a large scale figurative painting that explores what it meant to be diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer during a global pandemic.

SHARL G SMITH: Large scale sculpture using Bead-stitching technique into a much larger format using tires or drilled steel balls instead of beads with rope and/or steel cable instead of thread.

SPOOK THE BEAST: Recording new full length album  of Doom/Sludge/Metal music.

CONAN STARK: Camera illustrations create a series of illustrations to visually explore the relationships local photographers have with their cameras.

HEATHER TIZYA: Visions a book of visual art and verse, accompanied by an audiovisual component created by a Vun Tut Gwitch’in first nation artist

PIRA UROSEVIC: Repurposing vintage and discarded materials to create new art works using cyanotype process.

ALTEN WILMOT: Diserenity, a new work of theatre inspired by verbatim theatre and narrative dance theatre.

SEEMAB ZAHARA:BIPOC designed poetry workshops and on-site session zine.

A catalyst for new play creation, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is nationally recognized as a leader in the cultivation and promotion of regional Ontario theatre creators and their work.  Since 2006, they have played a pivotal role in nurturing artists practice and responding to change and growth in our creative communities.

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation acknowledges that we are located on the Haldimand Tract, land promised to Six Nations, which included six miles on each side of the Grand River. We are on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral Confederacy), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples.

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is delighted to announce the 2022 program of Micro-grants for Waterloo Region artists: 35 micro-grants of $1,000 each ($35,000 total) with each micro-grant representing the equivalent of 1-week paid work. This program is a continuation of the 2021 pilot for Waterloo Region and is made possible through the support of the City of Waterloo and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation.

The micro-grant will instigate and spark the first idea of a new art work. This ‘kick-start’ is essential more than ever during the pause this pandemic has created for our local artists who depend on live gatherings to exhibit and perform their work.  These grants will aide professional artists in investigation of their practice, with a focus on process, iterative learning, collaboration, and deep thinking. This program is a response to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity for artists to continue to delve into and develop their practice in imaginative and innovative ways.

Eligibility: Artist must be a resident of Waterloo Region. All artistic disciplines are welcome.

Application Requirements: Microgrant program is for exploration, learning, and time to investigate a project or research question. Timelines of project can vary depending on individual project needs but must be started by June 30, 2022.  All Microgrants are in the amount of $1,000. This represents 1-week of work for one individual artist.

To apply please submit the following to hello@patthedog.org

•  A Letter of Interest (Max 2 pages) Describe the Project/Research to be undertaken with the Microgrant, articulate the questions and curiosities that you are exploring, describe the process that you wish to undertaking.
•  A resume or CV.

Deadline for applications: November 25, 2021 at 5pm EST

Selection Process: All applications will be read by a selection committee of five members headed by Lisa O’Connell, Artistic Director/Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. The Jury will vet all applications and meet between Dec. 6-16 with final decisions made and posted December 17, 2021. It is our intent to have these dollars in local artists hands by New Year 2022.

Accessibility: Pat the Dog encourages submissions from all individuals. We are committed to the practice of inclusion and diversification.  We will make every effort to identify and remove any barriers to inclusion within all aspects of the selection process by making decisions and communicating without regard to ethnicity, age, gender identity or expression, colour, disability, national origin, family or marital status, language, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or any other characteristic that make our communities and individuals unique.

Microgrants for Waterloo Region Artists – 2022

Schneider's Girl 2008 - Mark Walton | The COVERT Collective

December 21, 2021

2022 WATERLOO REGION MICROGRANT AWARDS

JURY:
Tara Butler, Artistic Director, Dust and Soul Dance
Denis Longchamps, Executive Director, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
Shirley Madill, Executive Director, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Lisa O’Connell, Artistic Director, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation
Vanessa Spence, Artistic Director, Virtu Arts

Each artist was awarded $1,000 each representing 1-week of work to kick-start a new artwork.

ERIC ALMBERG: Travelling Cart Artist Workshops sharing skills, stories and perspectives with the pubic.

FITSUM AREGUY: potential of intimacies: short fiction exploring how long-standing norms and conventions for intimacy are evolving in the pandemic-era.

BAD CHILD: Spirals New Music Album. Spirals delves into generational trauma, love, grief, it is an experimental emotional expose. Utilizing a combination of analog and electronic elements .

MISSY BAUMAN: Demos toward her New album of folk music

SHERRY CZEKUS: Ghost Image Project:  A process to use photographic imagery visualized through text to generate new pathways to make artwork.

HALEY DIMECK: Choreographing a new contemporary dance solo, exploring concepts surrounding busyness and stress impacting one’s ability to truly relax.

ZACH EVANS-WHITLEY: Exploring how live vocal music, particularly choir and opera, can be modernized to address issues of social inequity.

BEHNAZ FATEMI: Large-scale pyramid-shaped sculpture complemented with a performance exploring COVID-19 news from around the world and investigating safety and self.

VANIA FENG: How do you choose what to believe”: a durational performance created by a 22 year-old Chinese-Canadian woman investigating Asian Hate Crimes during the pandemic.

STEPHANIE FLORENCE: Creation of a series of costumes or wearable sculptures to be used in public performance investigating climate change.

ELIZABETH FORREST: Exploration of Mokuhanga –  print making Japanese woodblock printmaking.

ASHLEY GUENETTE: Research on ‘temporal language’, toward creation of  large-scale paintings /murals using oil sticks and oil paint on stretched canvas.

KATHRYN HERNDEN: Creation of subversive quilts, including embroidering overtop of hand painted QR Codes. Recording marginalized communities.

BANGISHIMO JOHNSON: The Medicines We Carry featuring Indigenous peoples from many nations in the style of fine art photography. Each will adorn a crown or headpiece made of traditional medicines used by the Indigenous peoples living on these lands.

SCOTT KING: Post-Confederation Architecture: A Golden History in Canada”: A Photo essay of yellow brick buildings in the Kitchener-Waterloo region.

SHANNON LEIS: Exploration of natural materials for pigment making processes for painting and water colours to avoid plastic made acrylic paint.  (e.g. the bark from a tree, a stone from the path, a piece of moss, etc.)

RAECHELE LOVELL: New dance choreography exploring the intersections of Afrocentric and Eurocentric diasporas of classical/traditional dance techniques as it relates to contemporary movement and storytelling.

REED MCCAMMON: Printmaking project exploring the style of Felix Vallotton’s iconic woodcut printmaking-style that depicted crowds and city-life from 1891-1901 but with a focus on the changes to crowds and city-life that have happened as a result of the pandemic.

KATE KAMO MCHUGH: Creation of a ten-minute dance film exploring how an artist balances their artistry with caregiving, especially when it comes to motherhood.

MARY NEIL: Creation of a new  a song influenced by local Coptic (Egyptian) Orthodox community chanting style of singing with ancient roots with the more contemporary style of electronic dance music (EDM).

AMY NEUFELD: WHY-TO humor  book about knitting, life and growing-up. For Middle-schoolers.

JACKIE PARTRIDGE: Series of cyanotypes prints based on wildflowers in Waterloo Region.

LAUREN PROUSKY: New body of work that explores sudoku puzzles as a form of concrete poetry, generative art and a catalyst for further cultural analysis.

BRENDA REID: The Weight of Lines, creation of  a double-sided quilt that depicts the Haldimand Tract through colonial and decolonial lenses.

CHRISTINA RESTOULE: Program  of traditional dance teachings to those who need cultural guidance in their life. Offered to Indigenous community members seeking to learn the traditional dance styles of Jingle Dress or Fancy Shawl.

ANDREW JACOB RINEHART: Festival of Harps: Twice annually community co-creation in public spaces  incorporating harp and silly fun.

GRACE SCHEELE: Not yr angel bby harpist is a solo interdisciplinary show that seeks to explore the media trope of the angelic/sacred and feminine idealization of the figure of the female harpist.

COLIN BOYD SHAFER: New podcast “(re) named” exploring in interviews the importance of names – the names we are given, the names we choose, and the names that are forced upon us.

ESTHER SLEVINSKY: Creation of a large scale figurative painting that explores what it meant to be diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer during a global pandemic.

SHARL G SMITH: Large scale sculpture using Bead-stitching technique into a much larger format using tires or drilled steel balls instead of beads with rope and/or steel cable instead of thread.

SPOOK THE BEAST: Recording new full length album  of Doom/Sludge/Metal music.

CONAN STARK: Camera illustrations create a series of illustrations to visually explore the relationships local photographers have with their cameras.

HEATHER TIZYA: Visions a book of visual art and verse, accompanied by an audiovisual component created by a Vun Tut Gwitch’in first nation artist

PIRA UROSEVIC: Repurposing vintage and discarded materials to create new art works using cyanotype process.

ALTEN WILMOT: Diserenity, a new work of theatre inspired by verbatim theatre and narrative dance theatre.

SEEMAB ZAHARA:BIPOC designed poetry workshops and on-site session zine.

A catalyst for new play creation, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is nationally recognized as a leader in the cultivation and promotion of regional Ontario theatre creators and their work.  Since 2006, they have played a pivotal role in nurturing artists practice and responding to change and growth in our creative communities.

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation acknowledges that we are located on the Haldimand Tract, land promised to Six Nations, which included six miles on each side of the Grand River. We are on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral Confederacy), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples.

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation is delighted to announce the 2022 program of Micro-grants for Waterloo Region artists: 35 micro-grants of $1,000 each ($35,000 total) with each micro-grant representing the equivalent of 1-week paid work. This program is a continuation of the 2021 pilot for Waterloo Region and is made possible through the support of the City of Waterloo and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation.

The micro-grant will instigate and spark the first idea of a new art work. This ‘kick-start’ is essential more than ever during the pause this pandemic has created for our local artists who depend on live gatherings to exhibit and perform their work.  These grants will aide professional artists in investigation of their practice, with a focus on process, iterative learning, collaboration, and deep thinking. This program is a response to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity for artists to continue to delve into and develop their practice in imaginative and innovative ways.

Eligibility: Artist must be a resident of Waterloo Region. All artistic disciplines are welcome.

Application Requirements: Microgrant program is for exploration, learning, and time to investigate a project or research question. Timelines of project can vary depending on individual project needs but must be started by June 30, 2022.  All Microgrants are in the amount of $1,000. This represents 1-week of work for one individual artist.

To apply please submit the following to hello@patthedog.org

•  A Letter of Interest (Max 2 pages) Describe the Project/Research to be undertaken with the Microgrant, articulate the questions and curiosities that you are exploring, describe the process that you wish to undertaking.
•  A resume or CV.

Deadline for applications: November 25, 2021 at 5pm EST

Selection Process: All applications will be read by a selection committee of five members headed by Lisa O’Connell, Artistic Director/Pat the Dog Theatre Creation. The Jury will vet all applications and meet between Dec. 6-16 with final decisions made and posted December 17, 2021. It is our intent to have these dollars in local artists hands by New Year 2022.

Accessibility: Pat the Dog encourages submissions from all individuals. We are committed to the practice of inclusion and diversification.  We will make every effort to identify and remove any barriers to inclusion within all aspects of the selection process by making decisions and communicating without regard to ethnicity, age, gender identity or expression, colour, disability, national origin, family or marital status, language, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or any other characteristic that make our communities and individuals unique.

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