Resourcing your Practice - a guide for funding your career and a how to for writing compelling proposals as an artist.

1. Resourcing Your Practice: Managing a Hybrid Life INDEPENDENT ARTIST NYFA & ARTSERVE HOSTED BY ARTPRIZE October 6, 2010

2. Investing in your future Employment = People paying you to learn

3. BA Theatre Studies OSU 1992 - 1997 Archiving Assistant Theatre Research Institute OSU 1994 - 1997 Digital Archivist Assistant Allott & Lomax Consulting Engineers 1997- 1998 Marketing Associate Oregon Group Architects 1998 - 2001 Community Arts Services Associate Culture Works 2001 - 2002 VP, Community Arts Services Culture Works 2002 - 2003 Independent Curator and Consultant Self-employed 2003 - 2004 Administrative Director New Media Scotland 2004 Executive Director New Media Scotland 2004 - 2007 Director of Creative Industries ArtServe Michigan 2008 - Present Career History

8. Performance: Language Audiences Interaction Sculpture: Objects Spaces Making

9. Performance: Language Audiences Interaction Sculpture: Objects Spaces Making www.rootoftwo.com Technology

10. ‘ buying in does not mean selling out’. Oh and here’s some work with how they were resourced

11. A Country Road. A Tree. Evening. Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Pennsylvania, 16 - 19 September, 1999.

12. A Country Road. A Tree. Evening. Self-financed the materials of this work but won in-kind support for its presentation at the festival including travel, room, per diems, technical labor, invigilation, and sound and lighting equipment .

13. cross-platform, Intersculpt:uk 2003 Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, UK

14. cross-platform, Intersculpt:uk 2003 Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, UK Received small production grant of £1800 from Arts Council England ($3600)

17. Gimbalgolf, Crazy Art Golf Show Northern Quarter Gallery Manchester, UK 2004

18. Gimbalgolf Received commission and exhibition fee from gallery part of a fundraiser exhibition for gallery

19. Mute Objects COMMISSIONED BY STOREY GALLERY//FOLLY//LITFEST Virtual Public Art Project, Sound and Video Production/Editing and Flash Action Scripting and Animation.

20. Mute Objects Received commission from Folly for virtual version and also received a £17,000 R & D grant from Arts Council England ($34,000)

23. Was part of a £17,000 R & D grant from Arts Council England and received £1000 enterprise funding from Sparc Aberdeen to develop it as a revenue generator for us and other designers on the site as earned income . Identityware www.idware.co.uk

24. et dukkehjem Received a $5,000 travel bursary to Macedonia for exhibition, in-kind support , and $4,000 University of Michigan production grant . $3,000 Self-financed. Total project budget $12,000 www.etdukkehjem.net

28. Intersculpt:uk 03 Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, UK 2003 Received £18,350 project grant from Arts Council England (ACE) and cash and in-kind from various funders.

29. Received £30,000 project grant from Arts Council England (ACE) and cash and in-kind from various funders ($ Total Project Funding $80,000).

30. In-kind only

31. In-kind only

40. Quotes from Will Hutton in The Observer 12/03/06 “ You’re 35 and experienced. Let’s face it, you’re useless” In a universe in permanent flux, we are no longer valuable for what we have accomplished and the experience we have gathered; we're valuable for what we might be able to do in the future.