Interested Brown County artists who want to
be considered for the Artists Interrupted: Brown
County Artists Challenged by Illness or
Injury project should send their name, address, phone
number, email address and/or website address to
Artists Interrupted
Project Coordinator, Susan W. Showalter by email to
HandsandSpirits@aol.com (Artists Interrupted Project in subject line)
or
by regular mail to
2900 Shepherd Road, Nashville, IN 47448.
Questions? Call 812 988-7830
Thank you!
A note from Susan W. Showalter:
Thank you for your interest in my
project, Artists Interrupted: Brown
County Artists Challenged by Illness or
Injury, which is funded by the National Endowment of the Arts through a grant I received from the Indiana Arts Commission. At this time the project includes only Brown
County artists.
I was
critically injured in 1998 and my life and livelihood as a full time artist have
changed
drastically. I hope to obtain important data for the use of arts
organizations
and art show organizers through this project.
I will also promote and market the selected local artists and their
works of
art as well as educate the public about these artists.
Decades ago I received
grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and Cummins Engine Foundation
for the 1980 Brown County
Craft Worker Identification and Documentation Project.
Collecting data about local artists was very
important to me, a full time artist and community organizer. I used
that information to help develop
several successful community arts organizations still in existence
locally,
state wide and nationally. That list
includes The Brown County Craft Guild, The Brown County Craft Gallery,
Indiana
Heritage Arts, Indiana
Blacksmithing Association, National Institute for Cooperatives and
Economic
Development, Artists Blacksmiths’ Association of N. America and others.
Currently a fine art
photographer and jewelry designer, I will identify professional Fine
Artists,
Fine Crafts Artists and those in the Performing Arts working in Brown
County, IN
who have become temporarily or permanently challenged through injury or
illness
during their careers as artists. I will select then document up to
five artists through interviews during which time I will photograph
them and
write about how their challenges have affected them physically,
emotionally and
financially. I will explore how this has affected their artwork and
marketing
then will describe how they have found ways to continue being artists in
spite
of their challenges.
Finally, I especially want to reveal
what "gifts", if any, the artists feel they have received from becoming
injured or ill. I
believe these artists will inspire me, other artists and the general
public.
To complete this project, I will
produce a webpage where the artists will be promoted and their work can
be
marketed. I will produce an exhibition of photos and samples of their
works
of art with written narratives then exhibit what can become a traveling
exhibition.
If you or someone you know would like more information about this project, please contact me by email:
HandsandSpirits@aol.com or call meat 812 988-7830.
Please pass this information on to other artists, actors, musicians, writers, etc.
Thank you very much for your interest and support.
Susan
