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Grant information
$700, second place, November 2009

Project members
Shawn Dalsen
Eric Mattheis
Matt McGorry
Matt Wells

Project summary
An artist collective publicizes and documents the execution of 15-20 variously sized paintings with urban/political themes, and disperses them in public places across Minneapolis. People are encouraged to record their discovery of these works and their subsequent status, including vandalism, dismantlement, home exhibition, framing, weather damage, vehicular destruction, etc. Participants’ photographs and comments are emailed or uploaded onto a publicly accessible Flickr account via instructions attached to the artworks.

How will your project manifest at the next FEAST, to be held in approximately 12 weeks?
Project results will be packaged for the next FEAST event as a media presentation that summarizes the lives of the individual paintings through images and text harvested from the artists’ documentation of their creations and contributions of public participants’ photos, narratives, text messages, mobile phone images and video clips. When possible, actual paintings will be borrowed from new owners or recovered from oblivion for display at the dinner. The presentation will demonstrate how the project explores the relationship between art and patron, object and environment, and the subjectivity of value in art.

How will you use funding towards the realization of your project?
$130 for printed postcards, fliers, and/or posters, which are required for the initial promotional campaign, in addition to the nominal costs of web promotion. $500 for material costs includes purchasing new and recycled canvas, wood and metal surfaces, as well as tube paints, inks, brushes, acrylic medium, aerosol enamel, and collage elements. $200 for a modest fee paid toward the assembly and editing of digital material for the final presentation in DVD format by local filmmaker Sam Thompson. $40 for transportation.

Why is this project critical to the FEAST community?
Through aggressive early promotion and a thorough press release, Public Consumption prompts average citizens to become art patrons, as circumstances lead them to view or acquire new paintings by emerging artists. The copy used online and in print acknowledges the opportunity granted for this project by FEAST and encourages the public to view the ultimate presentation at the next dinner event. The result is increased public awareness of not only engaging, quality art in their community but a unique, empowering organization that makes it possible.

Grant information
$700, second place, November 2009

Project members
Shawn Dalsen
Eric Mattheis
Matt McGorry
Matt Wells

Project summary
An artist collective publicizes and documents the execution of 15-20 variously sized paintings with urban/political themes, and disperses them in public places across Minneapolis. People are encouraged to record their discovery of these works and their subsequent status, including vandalism, dismantlement, home exhibition, framing, weather damage, vehicular destruction, etc. Participants’ photographs and comments are emailed or uploaded onto a publicly accessible Flickr account via instructions attached to the artworks.

How will your project manifest at the next FEAST, to be held in approximately 12 weeks?
Project results will be packaged for the next FEAST event as a media presentation that summarizes the lives of the individual paintings through images and text harvested from the artists’ documentation of their creations and contributions of public participants’ photos, narratives, text messages, mobile phone images and video clips. When possible, actual paintings will be borrowed from new owners or recovered from oblivion for display at the dinner. The presentation will demonstrate how the project explores the relationship between art and patron, object and environment, and the subjectivity of value in art.

How will you use funding towards the realization of your project?
$130 for printed postcards, fliers, and/or posters, which are required for the initial promotional campaign, in addition to the nominal costs of web promotion. $500 for material costs includes purchasing new and recycled canvas, wood and metal surfaces, as well as tube paints, inks, brushes, acrylic medium, aerosol enamel, and collage elements. $200 for a modest fee paid toward the assembly and editing of digital material for the final presentation in DVD format by local filmmaker Sam Thompson. $40 for transportation.

Why is this project critical to the FEAST community?
Through aggressive early promotion and a thorough press release, Public Consumption prompts average citizens to become art patrons, as circumstances lead them to view or acquire new paintings by emerging artists. The copy used online and in print acknowledges the opportunity granted for this project by FEAST and encourages the public to view the ultimate presentation at the next dinner event. The result is increased public awareness of not only engaging, quality art in their community but a unique, empowering organization that makes it possible.