BrainFilth wrote:Delusion1111111 wrote:
what kinda art do u make i wanna see
this particular grant is for me to study and practice textile mending, so i can hopefully get good enough to host repair workshops.
i call my art "the art of radical domesticity," preserving life and survival skills that women have done with no help or praise throughout history, acknowledging the women who did it unpaid for millennia have never been allowed to call it art.
embroidery, mending, food preservation, gardening, etc.
they're giving me the money because they wanna see me put together a real portfolio, cuz i have been dabbling for almost a decade and they like what they see but want to see it refined. the goal of the grant is to help and push unknown, and unrefined artists into real success. i am so grateful, and i helped several friends get the grant too.
the first grant they gave me back last summer is to teach an embroidery school for teenage girls in 2021. in the town i live in "teaching artists" are a big thing, folks who have realized they are not happy selling their art but want to share their skills so they do not die out.
this is sooooooo cool n inspirational tbh wow! i rly would love to learn how to do so much of that stuff lol i hope 2021 is a great year for u