Scott Hislop
Ryan Heffington
SYTYCD
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Here is an example of my sample grant proposal -
1. Introduce us to yourself. Include a short artist statement and information about your professional history, artistic training, exhibition or performance history, related professional experience and accomplishments as a professional artist.
2. Clearly explain your proposal for which NAC support is requested, explaining its purpose and goals, where and when it will take place, who will be involved, how it will be accomplished, for whom it is designed and how NAC funds would be used
Grant Proposal For Nevada Arts Council:
My name is Kenna Lincoln and I am a senior at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village NV. I was exposed to my first dance class when I was thirteen years old, and from that day I was hooked. I began taking as many classes as I possibly could, in every style that was available to me, totaling three to eight hours of dance every day of the week. My training background includes Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Modern, African, West Coast Swing, Adagio, and Funk. When I was sixteen I began dancing professionally with three Nevada based performance companies including KB Productions, Entertainment Plus, and LRP Productions. This gave me the opportunity to travel and begin teaching. Shortly after that at seventeen years old I went to New York City to perform in the Off Broadway production called “Beginnings”. In that same year I was crowned Miss Lake Tahoe and also performed in the Miss California State Pageant. It was then that I fell in love with choreography and teaching; I have now been teaching performing arts consistently for the past seven years.
I approach my choreography organically, which allows the beats and sounds to move through me in a meditative way, opening the doors for my inspiration. The piecing of music and movement is an experience that has helped define my existence. The fascination of how moving made me feel, grew from just an allure into a realization of how intense the combining of my movement with music effects who I am. I fuse foundational experience of technique with experimentation. This allows my work to grow into an innovative, modern, and free experience. I pull from all my influences of different styles and ethnicities, and push my choreography to become its own entity. Dancing is my entry into a new world, a world of endless possibilities.
I propose as the artistic chorographer for the Sierra Nevada College Dance team, to request funding in order for me to participate in the 2009 West Coast Dance Explosion choreography segment. This would enable me to take classes specifically designed for teachers to enhance not only my own skills as a performer but as a teacher, which would benefit every one of the participants on the Sierra Nevada College Dance Team. My goal is to incorporate the ever-changing fresh and new choreography styles into the work with my students. It will take place July 4-10 2009 in Las Vegas NV. The funds From NAC would be used to cover my travel expenses and choreography class coverage for West Coast Dance Explosion.
1. Introduce us to yourself. Include a short artist statement and information about your professional history, artistic training, exhibition or performance history, related professional experience and accomplishments as a professional artist.
2. Clearly explain your proposal for which NAC support is requested, explaining its purpose and goals, where and when it will take place, who will be involved, how it will be accomplished, for whom it is designed and how NAC funds would be used
Grant Proposal For Nevada Arts Council:
My name is Kenna Lincoln and I am a senior at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village NV. I was exposed to my first dance class when I was thirteen years old, and from that day I was hooked. I began taking as many classes as I possibly could, in every style that was available to me, totaling three to eight hours of dance every day of the week. My training background includes Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Modern, African, West Coast Swing, Adagio, and Funk. When I was sixteen I began dancing professionally with three Nevada based performance companies including KB Productions, Entertainment Plus, and LRP Productions. This gave me the opportunity to travel and begin teaching. Shortly after that at seventeen years old I went to New York City to perform in the Off Broadway production called “Beginnings”. In that same year I was crowned Miss Lake Tahoe and also performed in the Miss California State Pageant. It was then that I fell in love with choreography and teaching; I have now been teaching performing arts consistently for the past seven years.
I approach my choreography organically, which allows the beats and sounds to move through me in a meditative way, opening the doors for my inspiration. The piecing of music and movement is an experience that has helped define my existence. The fascination of how moving made me feel, grew from just an allure into a realization of how intense the combining of my movement with music effects who I am. I fuse foundational experience of technique with experimentation. This allows my work to grow into an innovative, modern, and free experience. I pull from all my influences of different styles and ethnicities, and push my choreography to become its own entity. Dancing is my entry into a new world, a world of endless possibilities.
I propose as the artistic chorographer for the Sierra Nevada College Dance team, to request funding in order for me to participate in the 2009 West Coast Dance Explosion choreography segment. This would enable me to take classes specifically designed for teachers to enhance not only my own skills as a performer but as a teacher, which would benefit every one of the participants on the Sierra Nevada College Dance Team. My goal is to incorporate the ever-changing fresh and new choreography styles into the work with my students. It will take place July 4-10 2009 in Las Vegas NV. The funds From NAC would be used to cover my travel expenses and choreography class coverage for West Coast Dance Explosion.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Really? Not again...
What frustrates me most are the times when I don't know whether to scream or to cry. Getting news that I don't want to hear or even acknowledge seems to throw me for a loop just when I start to believe everything is good. I thought I finally had everything figured out, I thought the next step in my life plan was finally being put into progress. I was so happy...
I noticed it about a month and a half ago, but ignored it like I have before. It was just a few weeks ago, and all it took was one move that I have done millions of times to throw my life in a whole different direction. Now, walking upstairs doesn't feel right, and moving in any (in my opinion) creative way, causes me pain that lasts through the day and night. Waking up in the morning it is difficult to get out of bed, and sitting in class makes it hurt all over again. So Frustrating!!! I thought I was finally better, and now all over again, I seem to have injured my hip to the point of possibly having to take the time out of my life to get surgery once again. I think more than anything, the whole idea of being injured again scares me, and I have been denying it for the past month. My art form doesn't work with bad hips, so, I guess, its off to trying plan B....
I noticed it about a month and a half ago, but ignored it like I have before. It was just a few weeks ago, and all it took was one move that I have done millions of times to throw my life in a whole different direction. Now, walking upstairs doesn't feel right, and moving in any (in my opinion) creative way, causes me pain that lasts through the day and night. Waking up in the morning it is difficult to get out of bed, and sitting in class makes it hurt all over again. So Frustrating!!! I thought I was finally better, and now all over again, I seem to have injured my hip to the point of possibly having to take the time out of my life to get surgery once again. I think more than anything, the whole idea of being injured again scares me, and I have been denying it for the past month. My art form doesn't work with bad hips, so, I guess, its off to trying plan B....
Monday, November 3, 2008
Faces Faces and more Faces
Lately I have been obsessed with portraits... Especially of women... The images below are some great examples of photo portraits
Monday, October 27, 2008
Installation de Land Art réalisée par l'artiste plasticienne Lae
Installation de Land Art réalisée par l'artiste plasticienne Lae
Originally uploaded by Emmanuel LATTES
Monday, October 20, 2008
Jury shows
I just recently heard back from one of the Juried shows I entered, saying that they are still looking at work and will get back to me the end of October... Kind of a strange reality to experience, and kind of exciting at the same time
Monday, October 6, 2008
Somethings Missing
Last semester I began a series of headless women focussing on the Rococo Time period, here is an image I just found that is beautiful example of something similar.
Lorinda Menchavez
"Mediterranean"
Ceramic 20" x 6"
Inspiration
Below is a draft of the sample artist statement i've been working on. I've been thinking of more words that describe what the process is that I go through when I create a piece... Here are a few...
Organic
Innovative
Modern
Meditative
Intense
Exciting
Fusion
Evolve
Influence
Experiment
Fly
These are words that make me feel, and help describe what I feel when i'm working on new choreography...
Organic
Innovative
Modern
Meditative
Intense
Exciting
Fusion
Evolve
Influence
Experiment
Fly
These are words that make me feel, and help describe what I feel when i'm working on new choreography...
Artist Statement Draft
I approach my choreography organically, which allows the beats and sounds to move through me in a meditative way, opening the doors for my inspiration.
The piecing of music and movement is an experience that has helped define my existence. The fascination of how moving made me feel, grew from just an allure into a realization of how intense the combining of my movement with music effects who I am.
I fuse foundational experience of technique with experimentation. This allows my work to grow into an innovative, modern, and free experience. I pull from all my influences of different styles and ethnicities, and push my choreography to become its own entity.
Dancing is my entry into a new world, a world of endless possibilities.
The piecing of music and movement is an experience that has helped define my existence. The fascination of how moving made me feel, grew from just an allure into a realization of how intense the combining of my movement with music effects who I am.
I fuse foundational experience of technique with experimentation. This allows my work to grow into an innovative, modern, and free experience. I pull from all my influences of different styles and ethnicities, and push my choreography to become its own entity.
Dancing is my entry into a new world, a world of endless possibilities.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Ahh Midterms
Starting to definitely feel the pressure of midterms... I'm taking more credits this semester than I have before and it is proving to become more of a challenge than I thought it would... I Just have to keep chipping away at my pages of "To Do" lists that I have covering my desk at the moment.... Perhaps I should take a picture of that and post it :/
Frustrated much?
I can't help but feel a bit frustrated when it comes to my work right now. I keep asking myself if I should have more work done, but then I ask myself, when is that supposed to happen? And then I wonder where my ideas went, there are days where all I want is a piece of inspiration yet something like a meeting or other class assignment begs me to do take care of that instead. It is a weird feeling compared to my previous semesters to not have the time to get things going...
Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Searching....
Went searching for art forms that incorporated both of my interests, sculpture, and dance. Below are some of the favorite images that I found... : )
Monday, September 8, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
"So You Think You Can Dance"
Last week while out with my friends I ran into Mary Murphy the judge from "So You Think You Can Dance" It was actually really exciting to meet her because my sister and I have planned to audition for the show together this upcoming year!
Shen Wei Dance Arts Company
Incredible company!
Modern dance is part of what I plan to study at grad school.
Modern dance is part of what I plan to study at grad school.
Grad School Applications Galore!
Today I have completed the first set of grad school applications and am now just waiting to get my official transcripts all together. It is kind of a surreal feeling because I honestly never thought I would be going through this process. When I started dancing years ago I really thought that that was all I was going to do, I would just live my dream of dancing professionally and I didn't need a college degree to do that. Now here I am three years later in my senior year of college, already preparing for grad school. Life sure has a funny way of twisting the plans that I made for myself. My younger sister is leaving in two days to travel to seven different countries performing through vocals and dance, and I cant help but be a bit jealous getting to watch her live out what I wanted to do so badly before I got injured. The feeling of being a proud big sister though definitely far out way those of being jealous, and I can't help but feel that through my studies in dance at grad school that I will still get to keep fulfilling the passion I have for the art form.
I have been in contact with the school about my audition date and have to decided to dance in person rather than send in a tape. I feel that this will only give me a better understanding of what the school is about and see if it is truly a good fit for me. I believe that what is meant to happen will happen... In the right amount of time... For me it is all about being patient and not being afraid to step out of the box and my own personal boundaries and really explore what is out there for me. I'm sure this is an adventure I won't ever forget....
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Going back
I've been going back through my art history book this weekend; last semester I got totally hooked on the Rococo time period and the flouncy frivolous life styles of the elite of that time. The dresses and fashion have inspired me to a few pieces in clay, and now i'm attempting to incorporate my ideas into printmaking as well... Fingers are crossed
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Putting it all together
This weekend I plan to photograph some of my work so I can start applying shows... I'm thinking about putting in some sculpture, painting, and I am going to start working on a Printmaking project to submit as well...
Art shows
I have never looked for an art show to enter before, so the assignment of finding five to enter has opened up a huge new world for me. The trouble i've been having is deciding what to enter, I seem to go through this process of self doubt, as to if what I have is even close to being worthy of entering a competition in the first place. This is why I like the idea of doing this project and having the possibility of receiving rejection letters. It is all obviously part of being an artist, and I can't think anything else more humbling. Tough experiences can be great experiences as long as we have the right attitude about it...
Monday, August 25, 2008
This book is one that I got last december and have been studying all summer, the detail and description in this book is great. The proportions and movements of the human body are so defined, and this book provides an excellent insight into understanding the body's structure and movement. I got hooked on life drawing last semester, and want to incorporate some of my drawings into printmaking, I don't have any of my images up yet but will soon....
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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