The tinygrants Catalogue

Production of the tinygrants catalogue is underway! The above image is a detail from the cover (for now, anyway). The book will be 7″ x 7″, 64-pages, and mostly colour, and will include a curatorial essay, interviews with the artists, and details about the project logistics (such as how submissions were solicited and how the projects were selected). Don’t forget — you can get a copy of this catalogue as a thanks for donating $100 or more to the project.

It’s pretty exciting to start putting all of this together, even though it’s also an enormous challenge. How do I start thinking about tinygrants as a project that begins and ends? Last semester I was abuzz with a lot of administrative tasks for tinygrants. This semester, I have to shift gears to think about the social and political implications of a microfunding program for the arts. It’s not that these things weren’t on my mind throughout the submissions and selection processes, but now I have to commit to something!

If you have any ideas for what else should be included in the catalogue, please do let me know! I will be posting updates about how the book is coming together, including a working table of contents once that is a little closer to being set in stone.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on February 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, filed under News, Process and tagged catalogue. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

$36.00/hr – today!

Josh Cleminson will be performing and installing his $36.00/hr project today. Cleminson will be leaving 36 dollars’ worth of pennies on the street, giving any passerby the opportunity to pick them up, allowing them to earn, potentially, $36.00/hr. If you’d like to see this project in action, head to the intersection of Queen Street West and University Avenue.

Just as a footnote, expect more updates about tinygrants soon.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on January 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, filed under Projects and tagged $36.00/hr, josh cleminson, pennies, queen and university. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

tinygrants on Straw Into Gold

I was interviewed yesterday by Amy Conger of Straw Into Gold. You can listen to the show here.

* 02/15/10 – I’ve been meaning to update this post with a correction for some time now. In the interview, I talked about how student-artists are ineligible to apply for funding through municipal, provincial and federal councils. I also mentioned that it was possible for tinygrants to receive funding as non-profit organization. And for some reason I said I would be ineligible to apply for operational funding through this avenue as a student, which is completely false. Registering tinygrants as a non-profit would mean incorporating tinygrants as an entity, thereby making my status as a student irrelevant to the eligibility of tinygrants (as an organization) for funding. Just wanted to clear that up and apologize for the error.

This entry was written by Marissa Neave, posted on December 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM, filed under News and tagged amy conger, interview, straw into gold. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.