Artistic Equipment and Tools Round III
Sandra de la Loza Los Angeles
Sandra de la Loza is an interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Pocho Research Society (PRS), a semi-anonymous collective that investigates “history” through various modes of public intervention. Recent exhibits she has participated in include, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk at the Claremont Museum of Art, and Puerto Vallarta: Arte Contemporaneo 2008. Sandra will use her grant for equipment and studio upgrades, which will facilitate the research, fabrication, and dissemination of her artistic projects. www.hijadela.com
Andrew Freeman Los Angeles
Andrew Freeman is a photographer and the Co-Director of the Photography & Media program at CalArts. His recent residencies in Panama with the Asociación Panamericana para la Conservación (APPC) and collaborations with the Institute for Neotropical Conservation (INC) became the basis for an extended work Panama, 320 No Crocodiles. This multi-media project explores the cultural friction between conservation and economic expansion in the Panama Canal Zone. This work follows the recent publication (Manzanar) Architecture Double (©2006 RAM Publishing/Center for Land Use Interpretation). Andrew will apply his grant toward the purchase of professional field and post production video and sound equipment. www.andrewfreeman.net
Ellen Fullman Berkeley
In 1981, Ellen Fullman began developing the “Long String Instrument,” in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, fifty or more feet in length and installed in a performance space. Listening to the instrument has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. Ellen has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, Keiji Haino, and Francis-Marie Uitti. She has performed in venues and festivals in Europe, Japan, and North America including: Instal, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Other Minds, the Walker Art Center, and Donaueschinger Musiktage. Ellen will use her grant to update the design of the “Long String Instrument” in order to reduce weight, speed up installation, and expand its range of musical expression. Photo by John Fago www.ellenfullman.com
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Shinichi Iova-Koga Petrolia
Originally a photographer, filmmaker, and theater director, Shinichi Iova-Koga is currently a time-based artist working in ephemeral expression. In 1998, he founded the performance company inkBoat, whose productions reference Butoh dance as well as Physical Theater and filmic conventions. Shinichi examines, dissects, and intentionally blurs the line between media to uproot stories contained within the body and to communicate those stories to witnesses. He and his wife Dana Iova-Koga founded inkGround, a studio in rural Northern California, to continue the exploration of stories through the land, utilizing the surrounding forests, rivers, and ocean-side as new media for investigation. With his grant, Shinichi will install a radiant floor heating system in his new dance studio. www.inkboat.com
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Ruben Ochoa Los Angeles
Ruben Ochoa is a multimedia artist whose recent exhibitions include the 2008 Whitney Biennial and Phantom Sightings at LACMA. He will be showing some of his lenticular prints at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, this fall. With the help of the Investing in Artist grant, he will be able to purchase industry grade tools to continue making large scale sculptural works. Images of his works from the Whitney Biennial and solo shows in Los Angeles and Berlin can be viewed at http://vielmetter.com/artists/Ochoa/ruben_ochoa.htm
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Susan Simpson Los Angeles
Susan Simpson is an experimental theater artist and filmmaker. Her work often involves intricate marionettes and unusual film projection. Her puppet plays have been presented in New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles including numerous times at The Museum of Jurassic Technology and The Velaslavasay Panorama. She is on the faculty of the CalArts School of Theater and a founding member of a performance collective known as The Little Fakers. In 2007, under the auspices of Automata, she opened The Manual Archives, a micro marionette theater and exhibition space. Susan will use her grant to purchase equipment and make workshop upgrades to create a more professional and comfortable work environment. Photo by Sylvia Sukop www.manualarchives.org
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Jim Skuldt Los Angeles
Jim Skuldt lives and works in a former meat-packing plant in Los Angeles, which contains multiple walk-in freezers and refrigerators. He has been revamping these freezers to facilitate art making practices requiring low and below zero temperatures. Jim is the recent recipient of the California Community Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship, the Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, and is included in Skadden's LA25 collection and the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. He currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design. Jim’s grant will enable him to repair and insulate the condensers, compressors, and interior spaces of his studio’s walk-in freezers to promote energy-efficient operation.
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David Washburn Wilton
David Washburn is a Sacramento-based documentary filmmaker focused on stories relating to California's cultural history. His last work, Broadcast Cowboy, examined the life and authenticity of a Bay Area cowboy singer from the 1940s. The short documentary screened at festivals around the country and on PBS affiliates in the Bay Area. David's current feature length film, American Mosque, is about a small Muslim American community in the Central Valley and the unsolved arson that destroyed its locally funded mosque. David will use his grant to purchase a high-definition camcorder. www.washburnfilms.com
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Presenting and Marketing Work - Implementation Round III
Scott Constable Sebastopol
Scott Constable is a woodworker who uses his craft to explore the social and philosophical issues of everyday life. He is co-founder of Wowhaus (www.thewowhaus.com), whose interdisciplinary, community-based projects span contemporary art and design. Scott will use his Implementation Grant to continue to develop his Deep Craft initiative by adding a social networking component to the www.deepcraft.org site he introduced through his CCI Investing in Artists Planning Grant, along with promotional print materials for a related product launch.
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Paul Flores San Francisco
Paul S. Flores is a poet, playwright, novelist, and nationally prominent spoken word artist specializing in bilingual and hip-hop performance whose plays Fear of a Brown Planet and REPRESENTA! were National Performance Network Creation Fund Commissions. Paul was featured on Season IV of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO, and his novel Along the Border Lies was awarded a PEN National Literary Award in 2003. He teaches Hip-Hop Theater and Spoken Word at the University of San Francisco Department of Performing Arts and Social Justice. Paul will apply his grant towards the domestic and Latin American tour of “REPRESENTA! Bilingual Theatre for the Hip-Hop Generation.” http://www.myspace.com/paulfloresrepresenta
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Alison Pebworth San Francisco
Alison Pebworth has developed and presented projects locally and nationally since 2004 under the rubric of the Roadside Show & Tell, a series of attractions and related projects created in the spirit of the 19th century American traveling show. Following an eight-month journey across the country with the Roadside Show & Tell, Looking for Lost America, she is developing a new traveling exhibition, Beautiful Possibility, a series of side-show banners that combine historical and contemporary images with enigmatic phrases, asking viewers to rethink how we gather, record, and present American history and culture. With her grant, Alison will contact art facilitators and non-profit institutions in order to negotiate a scheduled tour across the northern United States for Beautiful Possibility. www.roadsideshowandtell.com
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Erika Chong Shuch San Francisco
Erika Chong Shuch makes theater. She coalesces movement, words, music, video, and scenic design to build and present original performance works with her company, the ESP Project, a resident performance company at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Erika will use her Implementation grant for the design, production, and dissemination of promotional materials and online marketing tools. She will also invite and host influential national presenters for the world premiere performance of After All at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Photo by Nolan Calisch www.espproject.org
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Kristina Wong, Los Angeles
Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Her body of performance work includes short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, plays, and sketch comedy. She was awarded the Creative Capital Award in Performance and a Creation Fund grant from the National Performance Network to create her third full length solo show, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, exploring the remarkably high incidence of depression and suicide among Asian American women. Kristina will use her grant for website upgrades, consultant fees to work with a booking professional, and the production costs associated with the creation of a broadcast quality recording of Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. www.kristinawong.com
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