Taylor Neal, Grant Oliver, and Erik Blomgren
Grant: Cultural Service Grant Program
Funding Requested: $3,000
Organization: Bold City Artist Collective
Contacts: Grant Oliver, Taylor Neal, and Erik Blomgren
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Project Details
Project Name: The Grant Grant Project
Abstract: Searching for a grant to support an event for young local artists to showcase a number of projects and collaborations. This event is a way to bring together different aspects of the local arts scene, from visual to digital arts, music and spoken word. The event will need to take place in a venue that can fit 150-250 people. We will need a budget for renting the space, a sound system, and lighting. The profit we make from ticket sales can go to paying the artists. We will have a stage area for bands, an area for spoken word artists, and an area for visual artists to present and sell their work, and a projector set up for a film showcase. By getting a diverse variety of artists involved in different aspects of local art, this event will serve as a supportive networking event for artists to step out of the comfort of their scene and be introduced to all of the other amazing work happening around the city of Jacksonville. The majority of artists involved will be students and young adults from all over Jacksonville. This event will show the impact that young artists have on the arts culture of Jax.
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Purpose: The goal of this project is to unite artists from different scenes within the Jacksonville area in order to encourage collaboration and to help develop a platform for current and younger generations of artists in the Jacksonville area. By bringing artists from different perspectives and backgrounds together to help foster a stronger atmosphere of unity and cohesion within the local scene we hope to help establish a wider pathway for the next generation of Jacksonville artists.
Organizational Eligibility for Application
The Bold City Artist Collective is a new and developing non-profit that strives to support up-and-coming artists across all disciplines in the Jacksonville scene. We strive to partner with organizations throughout Jacksonville to help foster an environment of collaboration and growth for all peoples, regardless of ethnicity, creed, gender, orientation, or identity. In this venture we hope to establish a broader audience for the arts, and increased access to the arts within the Jacksonville community.
Event Details
Event location: Murray Hill Theater/Vagabond Coffee
932 Edgewood Avenue South
(904) 388-7807
Budget:
- $500 venue rental (connected to the owner)
- $350 coffee shop rental (connected to the owner)
- $250 Insurance
- $1,000 deductible
- $100 marketing
- Posters
- Outreach
- (These costs are made a bit lighter by nature of the event; through reaching the fans through the artists, essentially helping to foster a self sustaining information loop of outreach and exposure).
- $350 lighting equipment rental
- $500 for lighting designer
- Discussed with Austin Kelm, he recommended us to James Tucker. Tucker is familiar with the venue and comes highly recommended for events of this type.
- $100 Live sound engineer
Final Cost: $2,900
Income:
Tickets – $10
200 attendees estimated
$2,000 split
Artists:
- Tenny Rudolph (photography/R&B artist)
- Geexella (DJ/artist)
- Tay (ambient multimedia)
- Bev (indie singer songwriter)
- Jadyn Duguid (visual art)
- Kevin Mierez (visual art, zine)
- Chelsea Hart-Cantabane (zine, spoken word poetry)
4 total bands – 30 minute sets
4 visual artists set up in Vagabond
Date and Time:
July 27, 2019 – 6PM-11PM
Proposed Schedule:
3PM – Lighting setup / decorating and organizing begins
4PM – Band load in, Sound tech call time. Visual artist’s call time to set up arts market
5PM – Soundcheck first band
6PM – doors open, arts market open
7PM – First artist 30 minute set
7:45PM – spoken word artist performing in lobby
8PM – Second band 30 minute set
8:45PM – spoken word artist 2
9PM – Third band 40 minute set
10PM – Last band plays
Marketing outlets:
- Jax is Rad
- We Rise Movement
- LEAP via the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
Organizational Point of Contact:
Taylor Neal
(904)806-2933
tneal4@jacksonville.edu
