ART GUMBO #5 = B-Day #1 = Biggest dining table in the Tri-States!
AG #5's big-assed table at Voices Gallery boasted yellow daisies, crayon bundles, butcher block paper, multi-colored bowls, baskets of whole wheat oatmeal bread, and seating for 90. We wished big and Gene Tully & Ali Levasseur of the Voices Team made our b-day wish come true: Big-Assed Table for 90!
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| Big-Assed Dining Table |
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| Popcorn Cake! Happy B-Day, AG! |
82 patron votes and $850 sent two winning projects out the door with funding for their "what's next?" to impact the arts in Dubuque. This funding cycle was open to creative groups/arts orgs & 5 diverse projects competed for funding including The Medicine Band, Dubuque365, Julien International Film Festival, Hempstead HS Art Dept., and Ruix Zine. Perhaps the most all-arts-encompassing funding round yet, the proposals covered music, exhibition, film, a community-based art club, and a literary zine.
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| Dean Wellman, The Medicine Band, "Blackhawk (Maka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak) A Rock Opera" | | |
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| Michael Coty, Julien International Film Festival, Screening of SIXTEEN FORTY-NINE |
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| Ryan Werner, Ruix Zine: Sustaining Local Music, Art, & Literature |
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| Mike Ironside, Dubuque365, Exhibition of Ashanti Collection, from the estate of Ruth & Russ Nash |
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| Brad Manternach, Hempstead HS Afterschool Community-based Art Club & "The Pottery Super Bowl" |
And the winners are...
Runner Up, Julien International Film Festival was awarded $100 toward screening the documentary film SIXTEEN FORTY-NINE in Dubuque in 2011-2012 as part of their mission to bring great film to our City.
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| AG #5 Runner Up Winner Michael Coty of JIFFD accepts $100 from AG Co-Founder Paula Neuhaus |
The patron's favorite and winner of $750 was Brad Manternach of Hempstead HS with his proposal to launch an Afterschool Community-Based Art Club and "The Super Pottery Bowl" project. Manternach plans to use the funds to begin an after-school art program that uses community-based art projects as a method of teaching high school students how art can promote social change. "Through the program students will be able to experience art beyond just process or a letter grade, but experience making art that builds community," Manternach said, "Our first project will be “The Super Pottery Bowl" which will require the students to develop a set of bowls, cups, and other pieces of dinnerware that focus on the issue of homelessness and poverty here in Dubuque." The AG funds will help purchase supplies for the Art Club's first project.
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| AG #5 Winner Brad Manternach accepts $750 in cash from AG June Winner, artist Katie Duffy |
AG is never complete without a final report from the winner of the previous funding cycle. AG June Winner Artist Katie Duffy had the unique luxury of having her installation in the room with us for her gallery talk. (As an extra perk, Duff helped us create the popcorn b-day cake!)
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| "Pop Quiz" by Katie Duffy, exhibiting at Voices Gallery through October 7 |
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| Katie Duffy gives AG some props! |
AG# 5 would not have been possible without dedicated patrons (aka: GumboHeads), Voices Gallery, Green Dubuque, Trusted Earth Farm & Forage, Dubuque Rescue Mission, Loras College Food Service, Inside Decor, Welu Printing, musical guests Bob Bucko JR & David Morrison, Katie Duffy, Fran & Ellen Henkels, Helynn Starr, Gene & Jane Tully, our Loras College Interns, and, of course, no one looks better than when Sindi Mueller of Luxe Photography is in the house!
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| Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread & Cherry Tomatoes by Trusted Earth Farm & Forage |
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| What we learned? ALWAYS have crayons on the table. |
Mark your calendars for Thursday, December 29, 6-8 p.m. as ART GUMBO embraces winter with our new permanent venue (TBC). The evening will feature Soup & Bread by Trusted Earth Farm & Forage CSA and Catering, craft brews by the Dubuque Area Society of Brewers, glamorous photo ops by Luxe Photography, a special musical guest, an update by Sept winner Brad Manternach, and the next innovative individual artist's/creative's projects to rock Dubuque. Check it.
FYI: Since our launch in September 2010, ART GUMBO has funded 6 proposals raising a total of $4,350 for Dubuque art projects.
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