ART GUMBO DUBUQUE: AG #14 Event Recap

28 patron votes, $280, 1 ice storm, and an incredible white bean kale soup from Life's A Feast Catering sent patrons home with warm bellies and sent Tim Olson home with $280 of seed money for the exhibition phase of the DubuqueFest Panorama Photographs. The weather was frightful which made the funding pool lower than usual so together we all decided to give all the $ to the project with the most votes (instead of the usual 2 winners splitting the money 70/30). Stretch that seed funding!

Yum from Life's Feast. Delicious photo by Ron Tigges @ Digital Dubuque.

"And the winner is..."

Enthusiastic patrons: Danielle & Steve!

Tim Olson's project: "Tony Moline and I photographed DubuqueFest using a 1930s era studio camera. The camera was pushed along a path that wound through Washington Park. Every 10 feet we stopped and shot a sheet of 5x7, B&W film of whoever was willing to pose. Throughout the two-day festival we photographed 635 people on 220 sheets of film. These traditional negatives are being digitally stitched together to make a long, single photograph in the style of panoramic group portraits created in the first half of the 20th Century. The first phase of the project—the photography—was funded by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council. I’m now looking for funding to create a final, archival print, 14 inches tall by 100 to 110 feet in length. The print will be exhibited at the Center for Dubuque History at Loras College in March and April, 2014, and then at DubuqueFest in May. After this, the print will be donated to the Center for Dubuque History and will be stored in its archive."