Monday, November 5, 2012

October, 2012
The Next Chapter///Project BUD....a research and residency exchange with Dublin and St. Louis.





A visit to Dublin, a trip to the Liverpool Biennial [aka mini-CAT weekend], and a mapping/meet and greet project at the Northside Shopping Center.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Eleanor Phillips and Jean Bates arrive tonight!! This is a new chip-in widget to continue fundraising. Our Kickstarter appeal was minimally successful...thanks to all who contributed...you CAN contribute here very easily if you will! More to come over the next three EVENT-FULL weeks!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

I don't think I want to be a fundraiser forever, but what an interesting challenge this is!  So many ways of thinking about connections, limitations, expectations.  Seeing me see others see me and see this project is a TRIP!!!
 
It's gonna happen! Things are::coming together, looking up, progressing, in the works.
This week we should get some significant support from the Hibernians, Irish Northern Aid, a funder, and a fundraising event.   I have printed up these cards to hand out to everyone [and his brother] to make sure that the Kickstarter funds are realized i.e. if we don't get our minimum, we don't get anything....
 
So....October 8th?!....can you do it? 
Thanks for considering...and see previous posts for
an alternative way to contribute with just a credit card i.e. ChipIN widget.
 
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314.367.8757
http://kck.st/qID7RP

Saturday, August 27, 2011

each one reach one...Updates and Alternatives

Project BUD is on its way!!!  We have until October 8th to make our goal on Kickstarter  http://kck.st/qID7RP.  This link will give you the story in pictures and words and tell you what FABULOUS prizes await donors and supporters.

Progress can be measured also by:
+ we have identifies a place for the Irish to stay while they are here
+ we have a possible studio/working space
+ the grant apps. have been turned in to PNC bank via Arts and Ed. Council, the Awesome foundation, and Thrivent Financial....xxxx
+ Eleanor Phillips (Irish artist) has applied for funding in Ireland complete with a letter of support from Regional Arts Commission
+ Jean Bates (Irish community worker) will receive money from her Family Resource Center for plane fare
+ The chair of Irish Northern Aid in St. Louis is facilitating a meeting with various chapters of the Ancient Order of Hibernians so that Con can tell the Project BUD story and ask for their support!

Thanks for reading listening and supporting! 
Please pass this on...each one reach one!

As an alternative to the Kickstarter account, you can 'Chip In' with only a credit card i.e. as a guest on Paypal.  [See secure link below or secure widget up top.]
These funds will be added to the Kickstarter fund for you!
http://www.chipin.com/mywidgets/id/43548406987d6b65

Monday, August 15, 2011

NEXT

Dig yourself a hole

Make big promises.

Burn your boats.

Set yourself up in a place where you have few options and the stakes are high.

Focused energy and serious intent will push you to do your best work. You have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. (Better than the alternative).

Seth Godin

So it appears that is exactly what I have done...dug a really big hole. No one else is going to raise these dollars...10,000 plus of them. So guess what I'm going to be doing this last week before school starts?!

Thanks to Andrew Raimist and a few others, I have a list of to-do's that can definitely become a ladder for climbing out/up/over the top!

Thanks to Dorlene Dunn Waleha, I have seen my reflection in the community arts mirror.

Thanks to Gerard W., I have seen  the face of the community in that same mirror.  I quote:

In reading your description of who you are, and what you're about at the end of the "blog", I am compelled to personally thank you for all that you and your colleagues have, and continue to do for us men in the Allen Ave. Transitional Program!! I have been on-line this morning at the employment office, for I do not own a computer, researching a Mr. Sigurd Bronger, whose identity and work would never have been known to me had it not been for Mr. Longyear and our Craft Alliance Metals class. The Klimt02 website led me to his book, and subsequently to his art. The creativity that Robert suggested to me and my personal artifacts last night in class was so inspiring....and to follow his suggestion that I continue with the website to extract my own artistry from within, in order to create AND complete my assignment is truly amazing and so very, very inspiring. You are truly creating possibility and discovery in me, alongwith a needed dose of patience, and I will politely suggest that the same is happening among my peers. 
It is my hope that the power of call / response / and discovery will continue in each of us, and I am confident that gratitude and sincere appreciation is felt by each of us for your vision and pioneering challenge to be the best that we can be. I am honoured to be a part of the program and your CollabARTive Thursdays.


I have used this before and will likely use it again....here's to the power of the NEXT step!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Threshold

Most Ordinary by Susan Piver

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are our most potent at our most ordinary. And yet most of us discount our “ordinary” because it is, well, ordinary. Or so we believe. But my ordinary is not yours. Three things block us from putting down our clever and picking up our ordinary: false comparisons with others (I’m not as good a writer as __), false expectations of ourselves (I should be on the NYTimes best seller list or not write at all), and false investments in a story (it’s all been written before, I shouldn’t bother). What are your false comparisons? What are your false expectations? What are your false investments in a story?   Each keeps you from that internal knowing about which Emerson writes. Each keeps you from making your strong offer to the world. Put down your clever, and pick up your ordinary. ~Susan Piver
I wrote this last entry to this first chapter of Project BUD once already....it disappeared suddenly into cyberspace...sigh.   I started that one with a different quote from Emerson, but apparently this is the one I was meant to use.

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