Funding for international travel and exchange

We’ve now set up a ‘secret’ facebook group for the artists involved in the exhibition. This makes it easier to have open discussions within the group and also enable everyone to see each other’s work. The two US gallery owners/ curators have also been added so they are kept up to date without bombarding them with emails.

To date, there are six a-n bloggers: Louise Atkinson, Michael Borkowsky, Julie Dodd, Elena Thomas, Jean McEwan and myself. In addition to at least ten others that are not bloggers. ( more about them in another post)

Debra Eck , the US artist that has invited us over, has been working tirelessly to secure more venues and institutes that can offer residencies. It’s becoming really exciting and I only hope that we can get enough funding for at least ten of the artists to go across.

Very ambitious, I know.

So the first application is being written up now and will be sent off shortly. Then….we are going to have a go at one of the crowdfunding sites. I’m not sure what the success rates are for art related projects, but it’s worth a go. We are just playing around with ideas for a video now that we can post up.

If and when we get any of the above funding – we can then apply to ACE, but sadly, not before.

So here we are again, at the start of the long process of fundraising for an international project.

Although there has been a bit of a gap between posts, this blog is a continuation of the collaborative projects between ‘my’ group SCI , based in the Northwest of England, and BasementArtsProject Leeds – along with associated artists residing elsewhere in the world.

In a nutshell, we have been offered residences and the opportunity to exhibit in Jamestown, New York in April 2014 and we need to raise the cash for at least four of the artists to go across.

OK. So the reason I am beginning this blog again, is to assist with the fundraising process. As for the ACE funding we received last year for the group to go to Stockholm, ACE accepted my blog as a record of our activities.

Out of the several funding options we are going to try, the first one must be submitted by 4 September. We have therefore asked all members of the group to submit their CV’s and proposals by 20 August, so that we have time to collate them and add abridged versions to the funding application.

As of today, less then half of the group have sent their information.