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2024 Dougherty Arts Center Submission
Project Description
A photo-documentary project featuring portraits of students at Lamar Middle School, McCallum High School, the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts, artists at Imagine Art Studio, AmeriCorps artists-in-residence at Imagine Art, and artists who participated in the city’s Artist Career Training Program.
Each subject answers a question, providing insight into the mind of the artist at different stages of their career. The end result is a visual and written reflection of the continuum of the artist’s journey.
Purpose
This proposed photo-documentary project will be submitted for consideration for exhibition in 2024 to the Julia C. Butridge Gallery at the Dougherty Arts Center.. Deadline for submission is by January 15, 2023. This proposal is aligned with the Dougherty Arts Center’s mission of showcasing emerging and established artists.
Influences
There are many influences on this project, in particular, the concept: Judy Gelles’s Fourth Grade Project; the portraiture: Richard Avedon’s In the American West Project; and the narrative: Studs Terkel’s Working.
Representative Organizations and Groups
The Fine Arts Academy at Lamar Middle School provides an inspiring and robust program for students across Austin for the purpose of pursuing an accelerated arts curriculum as fine arts majors. Lamar Middle School offers its students both meaningful and enriching opportunities in the areas of visual arts, dance, band, orchestra, choral music, drama, classical guitar, piano, digital arts and media, as well as the nationally recognized Lamar Jazz Band.
McCallum High School Fine Arts Academy’s mission is to foster and advance a diverse group of student artists who will create, lead, inspire, and contribute to a global community.
University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts is the college of creativity at The University of Texas at Austin—a home for artists, performers, designers, scholars, educators, makers and creatives ready to change the world.
Imagine Art Studio’s vision is to transform the lives of artists with disabilities for the glory of God. The mission is to leverage art and place; empowering artists with disabilities who become creative catalysts for changing systems of day habilitation; long-term care, peer support, and affordable housing.
AmeriCorps Artists-in-Residence works with Imagine Art to achieve AmeriCorps’s mission of tapping the power of the American people to tackle our country's most pressing challenges.
Artist Career Training Cohort 2022 represents a diverse group of working artists from the greater Austin area interested in sharpening their business acumen to harness their creative entrepreneurial spirit.
