Fall 2007
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Fall 2007 cadre $10 grant for visual artists. As with the first round last winter, it was a very difficult selection process as all of the jurors were overwhelmed by the quality of the applications. With the $2002 we collected, and with the creation of the new “Baby ‘dre,” or cadre Choice Award–funded by a personal donation of $340– we were able to fund, in part or full, five artists’ projects, again believing that the amount we could contribute would still make a significant difference in the realization of the work. Our jurors for this cycle (not including our own collective single vote) were:
Bernice Coleman, Artist, Educator, CSU Northridge
Dia Penning, Artist, Arts Education Program Manager, SF Arts Commission
Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
Jennifer Steensma Hoag, Artist, Educator, Calvin College
We continue to seek additional ways to support artist’s work, especially under-represented artists, or those working in alternative forms or media. Please help continue to spread the word about cadre in order to insure its continued success and growth.
And finally, we’re off and running toward the next grant cycle with $200 already donated! And the recipients for the Fall of 2007:
Ginelle Hustrulid and Erica Freyberger will use the cadre $10 grant to insert re-stickable, and re-movable vinyl replications work by photographer Mark McKnight into the San Francisco urbanscape. “People can relocate, acquire, exchange, and remove the photographs, allowing the project to become a transferable medium where vandalism has no role.”($400)
Eric Gottesman will use cadre funds in his ongoing work in Zebqine, south Lebanon. The artist has been working with a youth group to understand and document the impact of the war. Beginning by asking the participants to draw maps of their childhood visions of their village and identifying the locations of particularly vivid memories, artist and youths then visit those spots and use Polaroid cameras to make photographs of reenactments of their memories. The photographs are then placed in the landscape and rephotographed. ($600)
Kelli Connell will use cadre funds in the completion of her project, Double Life, an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate relationships. Her large-scale, digital photographs are created from scanning and manipulating two or more negatives of the same model in Adobe Photoshop. Connell’s work reconstructs private relationships that she has either experienced personally, witnessed in public, read about in books, or watched on television in photographs which look believable, yet have never occurred. ($600)
In CalliGRAFFiti, Minette Mangahas, calligrapher, and collaborator Ricardo Richie, graffiti artist, are exploring the dynamic relationship between these two writing forms. “In their sophisticated use of space and line, graffiti “writers” echo the techniques that East Asian calligraphers have been practicing for four thousand years.” These artists will use cadre funds to defray the costs of producing work during an upcoming residency in the Project Space at the Headlands Center for the Arts. ($500)
Kirstyn Russell’s Outposts series, in which she photographs queers spaces across the American landscape looks beyond geographic boundaries to the possibility of a psychological, historic, or identity based understanding of place. Given the important place that bars have served in the history of the gay pride movement, these visually bleak photographs of gay bars or spaces that—through rainbow icons or chance linguistic juxtaposition—might be construed as referencing gay culture underline the continued struggle for representation and visibility. ($242.50)
Many thanks to our jurors who put in many hours reviewing our 22 applications. And thanks to all of you for your continued support of this project.
Best wishes,
cadre
Carla Williams and Deirdre Visser