CMAD GRANTS
CMAD asks applicants to focus on projects that engage the greater Columbus community in short-term visual art and design experiences by creating 2D, 3D, multimedia, or digital work.
Typically, CMAD funds nonprofit organizations or units of government who are working with artists or designers. In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Spring and Fall 2020 grant cycles were awarded to individual artists or art groups. CMAD partnered with the Columbus Area Arts Council to administer the grants.
Fall 2020 cmad grant cycle
Glass Breakfast – Columbus Artist Interviews
Ian Carstens
This project involves video interviews of four local Columbus, Indiana-area artists, to be exhibited in an online gallery space alongside their selected work at glassbreakfast.com, with the short films also being submitted to the local YES film festival. Grant funds will cover the cost of production, post-production, and submission fees of these four artist interviews. Through a conversational style, these interviews will serve as archival testaments to the diversity and uniqueness of the lived experiences of artists in Columbus.
Glass Breakfast
Bartholomew County Historical Society community art exhibit
Bartholomew County Historical Society (BCHS)
This project will engage with two artists to exhibit their artwork for a 4–6 month period during an exhibition of BCHS’ art collection. BCHS will acquire a piece of each artists’ work for their permanent collection. The success of this grant is threefold: It allows visitors to view historic art at the museum – some dating back to the early 1900s – while discovering local artists from our county, and preserving art in the BCHS collection for many years to come.
Bartholomew County Historical Society
SPRING 2020 CMAD GRANT CYCLE
Interactive Lighting Design
Advisor: Daniel Luis Martinez | Design Team: Shorf Afza, Alyssa Bullock, Jacquelyn Brice, Mark Kebasso
$750 + $100 STIPEND FOR MARKETING
This proposal is for an immersive lighting installation along the north facade of the Republic Building (home of the J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program). The installation uses coding and sensors to create an interactive and socially-distant game to activate the front lawn of the building. The design team consists of four graduate students (Alyssa Bullock, Shorf Afza, Jacquelyn Brice, and Mark Kebasso) working with Assistant Professor Daniel Luis Martinez as an advisor. The proposal builds on themes in a seminar completed by the students in the spring of 2020 titled, "Architectural Lighting: Techniques + Poetics".
J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program
Symbiotic – Artwork Series and Online Exhibition
Rachel Kavathe
$750 + $100 STIPEND FOR MARKETING
We are in a time of extreme anxiety in our culture. We are disconnected from loved ones, and our collective sense of community. This series of work, called Symbiotic, is about forming connection in a time when we need it most. While we isolate, many in our community are discovering the healing benefits of connecting with nature. I am requesting funding to realize an online exhibit that I believe will provide a bit of relief during this time, a fresh perspective on our connection to the natural world, and a way that Columbus citizens can participate in this experience to find their own deeper connection with the natural world.
LOCI CREATIVE
Finished Paintings to Date
Timothy Michael Rix
$750 + $100 STIPEND FOR MARKETING
This project respects the rich history of Columbus while leading us into a radically new era of artistic production and presentation. “Finished Paintings To Date” takes a different approach to the way art is shown and viewed within this community by not exhibiting the artwork in a traditional gallery setting but instead creating an independent pop-up event in a residential neighborhood.
Fall 2019 CMAD GRANT CYCLE
COLUMBUS AREA VISITORS CENTER
$7,000 for DOCUMENTATION OF “AMERICAN MODERNISM”
by FURNISHING UTOPIA
Furnishing Utopia a design collective organizing design workshops and exhibitions exploring the interconnectedness of cultures, history, and industry in design. The group will hold a design research working in Columbus in late November 2019to explore historical sites and the modernist visions and principles. The goal is to document and share the workshop discoveries to create an exhibition in 2020 in the Midwest (Chicago and Columbus showcasing a collection of work from the collective that merges past, current and future utopian potentials through designed object, installation design, print materials and video documentation.
COLUMBUS AREA VISITORS CENTER
FURNISHING UTOPIA
SPRING 2019 CMAD GRANT CYCLE
Columbus Area Arts Council
$5,000 for “Learning Patterns” mural
by Lulu Loquidis & Daniel Luis Martinez of LAA Office
The Columbus Area Arts Council will install a mural by local design studio LAA Office on the east facade of the 411 Gallery building. The designers view the project as a strategic stepping stone to developing and raising excitement about a long-term mural program that enlivens the downtown core and engages the community. The mural celebrates Columbus by reinterpreting historic design drawings for the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library into a contemporary, public artwork.
About Columbus Area Arts Council
About LAA Office
City of Bloomington
$2,500 for the “Paper Pavilions: 2X2X” exhibition
curated by Sean M. Starowitz
Curator Sean Starowitz, Assistant Director for the Arts for the City of Bloomington, will commission and curate an exhibition of site-specific and site-responsive sculpture proposals. Artists will respond by designing their own sculptural pavilions that will activate various sites in the Columbus/Bloomington and the greater southern Indiana community. The project will include (2) one-month long exhibitions - one in Columbus and the other in Bloomington.
About Sean Starowitz
About the City of Bloomington
Friends of Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives
$2,250 for the “Cleo Turns 50” exhibit
curated by Tricia Gilson
“Cleo Turns 50” exhibit will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library. The exhibit will be complemented by activities planned by the Bartholomew County Public Library and the Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives throughout 2019 to commemorate the building’s design and history as well as the library’s contributions to civic life.
About Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives
LA-MáS
$2,500 for “Thank U, Next”
a 2019 Exhibit Columbus installation
“Thank U, Next” is an informal and inclusive meeting space for the City of Columbus. This 3-month interactive installation, centered around an adaptable set of tables, will serve as a destination for people from all parts of the city and all backgrounds to have shared civic experiences.
About LA-Más
