This yr, CityArtist awarded 25 artists from numerous fields of labor starting from literature to media/movie with $185,000 in funding to create artwork all through Seattle. Two 2023 CityArtist awardees, Ellen Sollod and David Quantic, will current their reflections on the digital 2023 CityArtist Share Out going down on Sept. 8. Seattle Workplace of Arts & Tradition Performing Director royal alley-barnes will give opening remarks adopted by displays by Ellen and David.
2023 CityArtist Share Out
Sept. 8, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
On-line (Zoom); Free with registration
The CityArtist Share Out serves as a possibility for artists to be taught from fellow friends in regards to the unfolding of their newly funded work together with classes, suggestions, and contacts they gained alongside the method.
Meet the Presenters
Ellen Sollod
Interdisciplinary Artist
Mission Description: Full and produce an version of fifty small-scale, roughly 80-page-length, hardbound artist books titled The Guide of Small Regrets with drawings, pictures, and textual content. It was conceived in response to the compelled isolation of COVID when small slights appear catastrophic.
“The Guide of Small Regrets was created in response to the COVID-19 disaster when even the smallest errors may appear catastrophic. Ellen tapped her social community to contribute their very own small regrets, impulse purchases and “consolation” meals to which they turned to handle their pandemic anxiousness. These acted as prompts for the creation of the ebook.
As an artist-conceived and designed ebook, it straddles the genres of visible artwork and writing. Whereas it’s a conventional codex kind, it expands the definition of what a ebook could be and encourages the reader/viewer to broaden their very own preconceived notions of a “ebook.” Combining writing, drawing, and images, the ebook explores the common experiences all of us have as human beings with foibles and challenges. It brings collectively a light-hearted contact with a way of humility.”
Ellen Sollod
David Quantic
Editor & Filmmaker
Mission Description: Full an hour-long podcast and a 5-minute documentary centered on queer coming-of-age/methods queer folks uncover their sexual preferences.
“I created a brief documentary titled It’s Not a Section as a part of my CityArtist grant. For this challenge, I gathered all of my previous podcast interviews of female-identified, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer interviewees and edited a 10-minute movie that options them sharing ideas about first sexual experimentations, old flame, and classes that interviewees have realized about intercourse and intimacy since popping out.
The movie debuted at my Passionfruit occasion that was additionally supported by the CityArtist grant.”
David Quantic
About CityArtist
The CityArtist program helps Seattle-based particular person artists/curators within the analysis, growth, and presentation of their work. The 2023 software is open to dancers/choreographers, musicians/composers or theater-makers (together with playwrights). Awarded artists might want to supply a public presentation inside Seattle metropolis limits. The Seattle Workplace of Arts & Tradition helps a broad vary of inventive and cultural expression reflecting town’s range.
