In June 2005, Artist Trust awarded $76,331 in Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) to 58 outstanding Washington State artists. The GAP program provides up to $1,400 to individual artists for various projects. In 2005, Artist Trust received 698 applications from artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
The information included in each grant recipient profile below is based on each recipient’s application materials submitted at the time of application.
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EMERGING & CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
Mark Johnson, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to hire an engineer to edit, produce, and master the raw materials from Cascade Container Range, a collaborative installation with artist Christian French. An assembly of large-scale shipping containers that references the mountain range, Johnson “plays” the containers by connecting slats to the structures and playing them as resonant chambers. By altering the length, thickness, and attack on the slats, Johnson is able to manipulate tonal relationships between the containers, effectively using them as instruments. Having performed them at a warehouse performance near the Duwamish River in South Seattle, Johnson will master the raw recordings from five suites composed specifically for the installation.
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Nicole Kistler, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray material costs associated with The Duwamish Living Barge Project, a large-scale installation planned for this fall. Kistler, along with collaborating artist Sarah Kavage, will plant a barge with foliage native to the Duwamish riverside, thereby creating a green space that exhibits native growth while also offering commentary on the current environmental degradation of the river basin. She will be working with the City of Seattle and the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle to identify a safe site close to the First Avenue Bridge where the installation will be on view for a month with kayak and canoe tours of the installation planned. www.nicolekistler.com
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Erika Langley, Seattle, King County ($920) to help complete a book project, Washaway Beach, which documents the disappearance of a coastal town falling into the ocean. Langley bought a home in North Cove in order to be closer to her subject, a town vanishing due to the forces of tides and erosion. One of the fastest erosion spots in our hemisphere, North Cove is documented through photography and writing associated with specific sites along the coast where Langley has captured the gradual erasure of a town and its history. www.erikalangley.com
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W. Scott Trimble, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to further an ongoing body of kinetic sculptures. Interactive in nature, Trimble’s sculptures will be made even more agile by incorporating more advanced computer programming and interactive possibilities. His purchase of software specific to kinetics will allow Trimble to develop a new, more sophisticated body of work.
http://wstrimble.homestead.com/
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Christine Wallers, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to purchase materials for her upcoming installation Sea Level at Suyama Space in Seattle. Her installation will be comprised of thousands of fine-gauge wires stretched parallel to the floor at varying levels to form a three-dimensional plane just above the surface, thereby creating a sense of transition between mass and movement that can be viewed from different angles. “This piece marks a transition from my previous work with more dramatic desert light, to the subtle, jewel-like quality of northwest coastal light,” says the artist.
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LITERATURE
Jeannette Allée, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to enable the completion and publication of her poetry manuscript Mister J. Appleseed c/o General Delivery. “These poems are informed by humankind’s drive for intellectual, artistic and sensual reckonings,” says the artist of her experimental writing. “Bigfoot is revealed to be a disheartened artist living behind a couch cushion fort and Johnny Appleseed’s sustainability moves to the orchard floor where he stops to carefully fold his pants before love-making.” Allée believes that the ability to enjoy focused time on her writing will create a “catalyst of well-being that ricochets exponentially.” www.warmupcomedian.com
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Barbara Evans, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of digitally photographing selected paintings to be included in her biography and memoir of Val Laigo, while also assisting in the cost of formatting the manuscript in preparation for publication. Val Laigo’s Passion shares the story of Laigo, an important Filipino-American teacher and arts activist here in Seattle. This book will help fill a void in published literature about important Filipino Americans in our community and will “validate several years of research and interviews involved in bringing this project to fruition,” says Evans. “ It will also affirm the recognition of the many contributions made by this artist who suffered life-threatening illnesses and racial bias.”
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Adriana Grant, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to defray the costs of traveling to New Orleans as part of an upcoming series of poems, including lodging expenses and admission to cultural events while visiting. During her two-week trip to New Orleans, Grant will spend time with the patterns and rhythms of local voices, visiting French Quarter architecture, the Contemporary Arts Center and engaging residents, all with the intention of culling distinct snippets of vernacular language to be assembled into her poems. “I am interested in creating a series of prose poems based in a foreign vernacular, where the sense and feel of the language is very different than that of the Northwest.” adrianacgrant@gmail.com
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Mark Halperin, Ellensburg, Kittitas ($1,300) to cover the costs of distributing his current book-length poetry manuscript to publishers. Costs include the purchase of a new printer, supplies, postage and submission fees to various book-length poetry competitions.
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Anna Maria Hong, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray the expenses of presenting and publishing her poetry manuscript Fablesque. The cost will cover fees for book contests as well as the cost of six readings and collaborative performances scheduled at the Richard Hugo House, Seattle Poetry Festival and the Experience Music Project.
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La’Chris Jordan, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to contribute to actors’ fees for the performance of her evening-length play, Sadie’s Kitchen. “This play was written not only to publicly present the complex issues regarding abortion and incest within families, but also to touch people and encourage dialogue in a positive way,” says Jordan. Additionally, a question and answer session following the last performance will be planned as part of her project.
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Stacey Levine, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help offset the costs of time necessary to finish her short story collection Pat Smash and Other Stories. A small portion of the funds will also go towards promotion and marketing. “The stories offer characters and circumstances in the literary tradition of the fantastic—that is to make the point that our life often feels strange or unreal due to life’s awe-inducing complexity.” Levine has published two previous novels, Frances Johnson and Dra-.
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David Massengill, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to aid in the completion of a collection of short stories about gay men’s relationships, Undersex. Also called flash fiction or micro fiction, Massengill writes in a relatively new sub-genre of fiction known as short shorts. GAP funding will support the completion of such a new project and “an independent, innovative way of writing that continues through a commitment to art rather than a desire for commercial success,” says Massengill.
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Joseph Powell, Ellensburg, Kittitas ($1,000) to cover the cost of submitting his most recent book of poetry, Ignited Doorways, to poetry competitions. The most recent manuscript is a mix of domestic and travel poems, poems about art, as well as historical figures and events. Powell‘s teaching experience has taken him to Greece and Hungary, travels from which he has drawn much of his inspiration. Other publications of Powell’s include Counting the Change, Winter Insomnia and Getting Here.
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Anna Maria Spagna, Stehekin, Chelan County ($1,000) to cover travel expenses to Tallahassee in order to research her fathers’ participation in the bus boycott of 1956. A writer of creative nonfiction, Spagna is interested in exploring parallels between the current gay rights movement and the early civil rights movement, as well as related issues of identity, faith and courage. The trip to Tallahassee will allow her to research court and church records and possibly interview living witnesses who were there and aware of the arrest of her father and his subsequent jail experience.
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Molly Tenenbaum, Seattle, King County ($1,103) to attend the Vent Haven International Ventriloquist Convention. Her goal is to collect metaphors and imagery from the performances and workshops in order to create poetry out of materials collected. As her poetic voice becomes more flexible, Tenenbaum feels ready to embark on writing about childhood memories of her father performing at her birthday, and of the lessons she learned as a child from her grandparents who were ventriloquists in early vaudeville theater. Studying her family’s connection to an ongoing art form will help her develop language to translate into her poetry.
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Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help provide writing time, and defray material costs and photographic preparation of the images for her creative non-fiction book, All This Journey. Near completion after ten years of research and writing, the book tells the story of Ling Shuhua and Amy Ling, sisters whose lives were interwoven with the social history of their day in China and immigrant experiences in Japan, England and the United States. Spanning nearly the entire 20th century, the book follows the women-one became a writer, the other a doctor-as representatives of the early Chinese women's movement. Welland has just completed her PhD in Anthropology with an emphasis in Women's Studies and hopes to complete her book this summer. http://home.earthlink.net/~swelland/homepage/
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MEDIA
Jim Berry, Woodinville, King County ($1,400) to aid in production of The Room, an examination of a suburban housing community, The Cottage Lake Bridal Trails, in Woodinville, Washington. This documentary will compare the corresponding room in each of the 32 identical houses that relates to the artist’s bedroom. “I want to make a movie about the room I grew up in. And I want to investigate what my room is like in these other homes, the homes of my neighbors, tucked away in the trees, a half hour from Seattle. My goal is to find as many diverse and interesting stories as possible,” says the artist who plans to compile his research of each into a documentary short film.
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Heather Dew Oaksen, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to support her work-in-progress The Still Point, a four channel video and sound installation utilizing projected video imagery that explores relationships between the body, memory and architecture through non-linear time and space. Funds will be used to purchase the necessary projectors, creating “images and experiences not possible without technological support, including image simultaneity, extreme close-up views, and the manipulation of perceived time.”
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Trenton Payne, Bothell, King County ($1,400) to defray the costs of his documentary The David La Terre Interviews: the Man in Brown. The funds will specifically go towards purchasing a set of lavalieres (recording microphones) and a light kit, to aid in shooting at some of the venues where his subject performs. The purchase of this equipment will allow Payne to be more flexible in the time limitations and allow for firm quality control in finishing his film on David LaTerre, a literary genius who lives alone in government subsidized housing. “I am capturing how he turns what is a life-immobilizing mood disorder for many into an avenue to be free to write, to perform, and try to be a functioning part of a local literary society,” says Payne.
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Michael Sanchez, Seattle, King County ($1,310) to aid in the production of his short film Ten. A meditation on fate and human relationships, the film revolves around two strangers who meet in an airport and how their lives evolve as a result of that meeting in intervals of ten—minutes, days, and onward. The first in a three-part series investigating human relationships, funding will enhance the production quality with new lights, microphones, and the purchase of a larger hard drive to edit and store footage. “I have always been interested in storytelling whether through writing, art or music,” says Sanchez, “and I find that narrative filmmaking with its use of dramatic, visual and aural possibilities provides me with the best vehicle for realizing my stories.”
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Robert Zverina, Seattle, King County ($1,200) for the purchase of a new Macintosh computer with DVD burner and requisite processing power to manipulate the digital video files of his ongoing documentary project, of which 792 Short Films is the first release. Since 2003, Zverina has shot thousands of short films ranging from 1-30 seconds using a digital pocket camera which he carries at all times. To date the compilation has been shown at Northwest Film Forum, Consolidated Works, Howard House and Priceless Works in Seattle. “My ongoing work with extremely short films serves both aesthetic and historic functions,” notes Zverina, “while each piece is unique on its own, assembled together they become a chronicle of our times.” www.zverina.com
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PERFORMING
Tom Baker, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help offset the costs of the composition, arrangement, rehearsal and full production of The Gospel of the Red-Hot Stars, a one act chamber opera. Based on a text by author Margaret Atwood, this opera tells the story of “Half-Hanged Mary Webster” who was accused of witchcraft in the 1680’s in a Puritan town and survived an execution attempt. “This opera explores the idea of the witch hunt. As it has come to be seen in the persecution of so many scapegoats, it is a topic that is as relevant to us today as it was to Mary in 1680,” says Baker. The work chronicles Mary’s long night before being cut down the following morning and is scored for clarinet, percussion, contrabass and guitar, including two soloists. www.tombakercomposer.com
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Janice Giteck, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to cover expenses while creating a new score for Tikkun-Mending, an original composition for orchestra. The development of a new score will involve reducing the large orchestration to eight instruments, four vocal chanters and a tenor soloist. As a chamber work, Tikkun, which means healing in Hebrew, will have more opportunities for presentation in its trimmed down version. “It is an invocation for peace in Hebrew, Sanskrit and laced with witty commentary by Northwest poet, Madeleine Houston, a Sanskrit scholar and mythologist,” says Giteck. “It will also eventually complement Ishi, a commission by the Seattle Chamber Players, in a full length compact disc to be released.”
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Jessica Jobaris, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to offset artist fees for her collaborative work with John Paulsen and George Lewis for the production of door Stories, a collection of choreographed stories “that speak of isolation, waiting and memory,” says Jobaris. “Three characters appear in a door and the story of their lives unfolds in vignettes of sparse movement and subtle dance partnering.” door Stories creates stage pictures that ask the audience to complete the imagery, making the audience an active part of the storytelling experience.
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Eyvind Kang, Vashon, King County ($1,400) to cover musician fees and studio rental for composing, rehearsing, and recording a new string quartet composition. Kang’s recording career as a violinist includes a number of solo releases and collaborations with the likes of Sun City Girls, Bill Frisell, Secret Chiefs, Blonde Redhead, Robin Holcomb, and others.
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Annie Lewandowski, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help release a full length CD, Emma Zunz. A musical project done in collaboration with fellow vocalist, instrumentalist and composer Cristin Miller, the name of the musical project is inspired by a short story by Jorge Luis Borges which examines familial, cultural and gender identity. A first tour abroad will contribute to the release of their first full-length recording.
www.emmazunz.com
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Mary Sheldon Scott, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of a self-produced concert tentatively titled “Short Works and Experiments.” The concert, to be held at the Velocity MainSpace Theater in Seattle in October 2005, will feature a new work that juxtaposes radically diverse physical images, a dance solo, and a reinterpretation of a previous piece. Funds will help cover artist fees, space rental, promotion and documentation. “This will provide an opportunity for a mature choreographic artist to experiment radically with form and content—to push a powerful and evocative movement vocabulary into an even more rigorous and potent territory,” notes Scott. www.gamelanpacifica.org/dance
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Curtis Taylor, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to be used towards the creation of the production design for Hand of Bridge, a one-act opera written by Samuel Barber. Taylor’s production is to be performed by four solo voices and chamber orchestra. Depicting two couples at a game of bridge, the opera is built around the struggle of each character’s personal and private selves. “The opera is a marvel of economy that uses the game of bridge, conventions of opera and Barber’s dramatic shifts in tone and phrase to make a complex portrait of ordinary people,” says Taylor. The opera is to be performed at the Northwest Film Forum and then evolve into a short film.
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Jessie Smith, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to cover rental costs of high quality sound and video equipment for Rivet/Rivule, a dance video that leads viewers through a visual journey of industrial Seattle. The raw feel of its scenery will interlace with the reoccurrence of water as three dancers barrel through and alongside rivers and puddles. “The piece is furious physicality, combined with contrasting, controlled dance technique,” says Smith. The film will remove contemporary dance from its traditional theater setting and place it on an abandoned train line and in a parking lot.
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Allison Van Dyck, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to offset artist fees and lighting design costs associated with FLUX·X, an evening length performance/installation of dance and video. “I am interested in how we evolve through cycles of repetition as individuals.” Van Dyck has shown her work at Velocity Main Space Theater, On the Boards, Seattle Art Museum, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and Consolidated Works among other venues.
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VISUAL
Howard Barlow, Thorp, Kittitas ($1,400) to help offset the costs of purchasing 14,000 to 20,000 pairs of fluorescent disposable earplugs needed to “meticulously cover single and conglomerate forms of anatomically correct newborn babies, thus implying sound blockage or information control,” notes Barlow. These strange fluorescent tactile baby forms will later be placed on brightly auto-paint finished, bullet riddled, steel sculptural bases as part of Recontextualized Vistas, an upcoming exhibition featuring seven Eastern Washington artists at this year’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle.
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Neil Bashor, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help with research and consulting costs in the designing of a dam designed for swimming pools. Bashor’s work has recently dealt primarily with models based on pre-existing dams built along the Columbia River. Bashor has taken these models and applied them to the damming of everyday objects, such as a wine glass or bathtub. With GAP funding, the artist is now looking to create a large-scale dam installation. His pool-damming project will be the first such large-scale project and funds will go toward covering the engineering costs. This GAP award was directly funded by Artspace Seattle.
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Gretchen Bennett, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of design and production for a large series of adhesive-backed sticker editions. Made from drawings of the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, Bennett has placed these stickers at eye level in Brooklyn, her former home, “supplanting cement and brick with scenes of the Cascade Mountains draped by coniferous trees, and ultimately collapsing the space between the landscapes of the two coasts,” offers Bennett. She is then planning to bring images from the East Coast back to the Seattle-Portland area in the form of stickers. www.gretchenbennett.com
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Francesca Berrini, Vancouver, Clark County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of studio time, studio rental, and miscellaneous supplies related to her ongoing map project. Working on canvas, Berrini creates her work by tearing and rearranging maps to create fictional landscapes. “Any ‘current’ presentation of information about another place encapsulates the era and culture of the society at that time, thereby creating a guide to the people more so than any places on display,” says Berrini. Funds will help create a series of six unique, hand-bound atlases of her map works.
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Judy Blanco, Seattle, King County ($800) to help defray the costs of renting video equipment as part of the completion of new video projects. For the past two years, Blanco has been incorporating video into work that deals with forces of nature and “how we have shaped our world in response to our encounters with it.” The videos serve as a record of a series of outdoor experiments that are thematically linked to her drawings and prints, such as Single Engine—a series of photographs that recreate shadow cast on the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh’s relatively small airplane.
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Diem Chau, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to pay for travel expenses to the former Philippine Refugee Processing Center. Inspired by entries in the journal of her late father, Chau is compelled to tell the story of the 400,000 refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that made the camp their home from 1982-1994. She will visit the Philippines for a month, researching these stories with the intentions of reconnecting with her parents and culture while working on drawings and collecting other source material for her work. “This is a pilgrimage and an experience that will greatly enlighten my humanity, my roots and my insights as an artist,” says Chau. www.diemchau.com
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Julie Custer, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to develop and complete an upcoming installation comprised of a room of stitched walls. Multiple variations of a single pattern will be hand-stitched on to drywall, as her work draws from “common associations and references to neural chemical diagrams linked to the physiological processes of memory.” The funds will provide materials for the project as well as further support for hiring an install assistant and distributing promotional materials. Julie makes installations to draw attention to often unnoticed spaces and surfaces.
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Scott Fife, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to aid in the casting of cardboard sculptures into bronze and aluminum. Since 1999, Fife has been making larger-than-life cardboard busts, often of such personalities as Teddy Roosevelt, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, and Mies van der Rohe. These busts have led to public commissions and Fife will pursue a transition toward producing larger sculptures with more durable materials, allowing the work to be placed in exterior sites and public and private settings. The ability to make the molds for casting will also allow for producing multiples.
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Nöle Giulini, Port Townsend, Jefferson County($1,075) to support the research and development of a new body of work that incorporates growing Kombucha Culture and traditional felt making techniques. Funds will assist in the purchase of new materials, the cost of a felting class, as well as documentation of the project. ”I seek to inquire into the nature of everyday household tools and appliances and our attempt to relate to and/or control (handle) them,” says Giulini. “I envision a process that begins with felting the exterior of these household objects and then cuts off the object so only the felt interpretation remains.”
www.ngiulini.com
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Julia Haack, Seattle, King County ($780) to help defray the costs of building a large sculpture, Mojave Mattress. Funds will help facilitate hiring a welder and fabric artist for the construction of this new piece, which will be the centerpieces of an exhibition at Gallery4Culture in January 2006. Based on a real estate development in the Mojave Desert in which new houses are placed around a man-made body of water, the shape of the sculpture will be similar to that of the lake. “I am trying to present my thoughts on water-grabbing, land-shaping, and the subtle shifting of the general public’s thought process due to government and media manipulation,” notes Haack.
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Annie Han & Daniel Mihalyo, Seattle, King County ($1,400) toward material costs involved in their site-specific installation at an obscure museum built on the cusp of a deep gorge along the Columbia River in the southern part of the State. The artist team will duplicate the exact volume of the 1914 museum on the verdant lawn adjacent to the museum, using construction scaffolding on a massive scale to recreate the volume of the original structure. This inverted double will maintain the translucency of the original volume by leaving the center void with the exception of ghosted floors and partitions to be developed and represented with elastic nylon netting. Viewers will be able to ascend the scaffolding of the stairways and circumnavigate the perimeter of the floors as well as netted walkways across the volume of the center of the structure. 
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Jenny Heishman, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to defray living expenses while participating in the Emerging Artist in Residence program at the Pilchuck School of Glass. An eight-week stay will allow Heishman the opportunity to experiment with new materials freely and incorporate her glass into a new series of sculptures.
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Patrick Holderfield, Seattle, King County ($525) to offset costs for documenting several drawings from his current body of work. Holderfield will use GAP funds to develop 35mm transparencies and high resolution digital scans of his current work. New documentation will then be used in submissions to museums and galleries as well as related publications. “Exhibiting my artwork is an important and integral aspect of my career as an artist,” says Holderfield. “Because the art world is highly competitive, the documentation quality is critical. It’s a necessary expense but one that often takes up money that would otherwise be needed for materials.”
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Tomiko Jones, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to purchase materials, defray darkroom rental costs and promotional materials for her series of self-portrait photography, Landscapes. The series was photographed spontaneously in remote and solitary locations, including the natural landscapes of Mexico, Morocco, Egypt and the United States. For presentation, the work will be traditionally printed as 20” x 24” toned gelatin silver prints and exhibited in a classical matte frame style. Jones currently has a show scheduled at the Upfeld Gallery in Tokyo. These works aim to “examine images that might be seen as especially inappropriate for a woman, their integration into landscapes rendering them beautiful rather than offensive,” offers Jones.
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Rich Lehl, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to enable the purchase of a large format inkjet printer and large format scanner for producing limited edition series prints entitled, entitled Happiness. The body of work will be shown at the Aaron Packer Gallery in Chicago. The new processing materials will allow him to explore a new medium and perhaps a new direction within his work as a painter. www.richlehl.com
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Hugo Ludeña, Seattle, King County ($1,400) toward high resolution scans and a website devoted to his photo documentary project Diez Años: Latino Life in the Northwest. Having arrived in the Northwest in 1993, Ludeña discovered that Latinos living in the area were very isolated from the rest of society here, living largely separate social lives. He subsequently began capturing Latino celebrations and local customs through photography and has focused on events as they happen at community festivals, concerts, celebrations, traditional weddings and everyday life. Ludeña will be showing photographs from the series in Burien’s City Hall and at an upcoming show at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle.
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Jennifer McNeely, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help cover the costs of documenting her recent work. Jennifer has completed over 50 individual pieces for several exhibits in the past few years, including one large-scale installation. Funds will help document her entire body of work over the past few years. www.jennifermcneely.com
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Sequoia Miller, Olympia, Thurston County ($1,400) to finish the building of a salt kiln. Destined for a rural location in Thurston County, Miller will reconstruct a kiln with the goal of converting it into a dual wood and gas fueled salt kiln. Extra brick to add a firebox and extend the chimney as well as refractory coating for the interior and new shelves will be purchased with GAP funding. As a functional potter, Sequoia enjoys the expressive potential of salt firing. “Every mark one makes is visible and the handling of the clay itself becomes the dominant expressive gesture,” says Miller. www.sequoiamillerpottery.com
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Yuki Nakamura, Tacoma, Pierce County ($1,400) to partially cover the cost of replacing a mid-size manual electric kiln with an automatic large kiln that includes digital control, a safety timer, and shelf kit. “My ceramic work requires intense and very time consuming firings, each taking up to 20 hours. With the challenges of daily life, uninterrupted studio time to create new work is increasingly difficult,” says Nakamura. Time saved with the new kiln will help prepare a new body of work, A Passage from Somewhere to Somewhere Else, to be shown as part of a solo show at Howard House Gallery in October 2005.
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Margot Quan Knight, Bellevue, King County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of her upcoming “Procreation Project” which examines reproduction and the modern science that surrounds it. As a photographer, Quan Knight’s conceptual images aim to bring surrealism to everyday life through extensive prop creation and digital manipulation. For this project, she will stage the discovery of fetus-eggs in a Bellevue lake. Frog like eggs that have been sculpted in clear plastic resin spheres will be photographed as part of the process. “In an era where stem cell research and the rights of the unborn drive heated personal and political debate, I hope to add fantasy to the discussion,” says Quan Knight. www.margotknight.com
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Rosemary Pham, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help pay the tuition costs for attending a two-week workshop at Alchimia in Florence, Italy. The workshop, with world-renowned goldsmith Manfred Bischoff, will allow Pham, a jewelry artist, to further make the transition from working with sterling silver to working in the realm of precious metals—primarily gold. Pham combines non-traditional materials in her work—fabric, embroidery thread, and everyday objects—with gold in order to explore the perceived and actual value of the object. Allowing her to focus on advancing her goldsmithing techniques, GAP funds will allow Pham further understanding of the medium and material. www.phampham.com
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Beb Reynol, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to cover the costs of a translator and recording device on his next expedition to Afghanistan. As a photographer, Reynol strives to document populations confronted by war. His ongoing photo essay in Afghanistan will create a cultural bridge to a disclocated world through the medium of photography and direct audio recordings of the people who are his subjects. This documentation can later be used as an educational tool in lectures and slide shows, much like his most recent lecture tour From Kasur to Kandahar: When Islam Meets the Modern World presented at the Vashon Common House and The Freehold Theater in Seattle. http://photos-image.com
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Sally Schuh, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to partially fund slide documentation and application fees for upcoming grant applications. “I use photography and printmaking to work with various forms of collection and documentation,” says Schuh. “My work centers on ordering and recombining visual fragments.” Funds will allow Schuh to update the documentation of her work every four months and thereby set a goal of submitting four grant applications monthly.
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Timea Tihanyi, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray the costs of a 23” electric kiln equipped with digital controller and accompanying shelves and ventilation. The kiln will assist an ongoing series of large porcelain and mixed media sculptures, In-Between Spaces. Fragile constructions that reference the intertwined relationship between the body and its place of rest, Tihanyi’s new sculptural works will be part of an exhibition in January 2006 at Green River Community College. www.timeatihanyi.com
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Laura Wright, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help cover her own time and hire a metal fabricator to construct five flag poles for her project Fabrication. Fabrication is meant to celebrate the individuals that populate the neighborhood of Georgetown, as well as the impromptu meeting places within the community. Residents, workers and frequent patrons to the neighborhood were asked to submit a piece of clothing to contribute to the artist-made flags. Wright then posted the flags at key community sites around the neighborhood. Lacking a traditional community center, the flags represent the places where people have chosen to congregate. This GAP award was directly funded by Artspace Seattle.
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Robert Yoder, Seattle, King County ($1,400) to help defray framing costs associated with an upcoming show at Froelick Gallery in Portland this fall. Funding will allow for a new series of works on paper to be framed in advance and simultaneously. 
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Otto Youngers, Tacoma, Pierce County ($1,400) to defray the shipping costs of an upcoming solo show at the Artcores Gallery in Los Angeles. Funds will contribute to sending his work to the “burning, boiling, bubbling basin of downtown LA,” according to Youngers. The show will include 16 life-size wood sculptures and related drawings. www.omyart.net
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