Hi everyone,
Many of you are aware that I was applying for a extremely prestigious Art Grant from the McKnight Foundation in Minnesota which is administered through the East Central Regional Arts Council. I submitted ten slides of my original cakes along with the proposal last month. Then last night I had a ten minute timed presentation with the ten member grant board. I also brought an original cake below as a new "work". I thought it was appropriate since I was basically moving from photography to sugar sculptures. So the camera cake is "dear" to my heart. Unfortunately I could not serve the cake since the board can not accept gifts..............but two of the members could not help but comment on the great smell!
I am very please to report that I received the grant and will be using it to attend the Lambeth class at Wilton in Chicago this October. The executive director wrote: "They really felt your work has a high quality artistic merit and that your proposed training will be a good fit for you."
I am so excited, I am simply beside myself!
Thank you for your replies.
I think the very best thing about the whole thing is the nod from the arts community that cake can be recognized as sculpture. Most of the artists turned decorators, people like Colette Peters and Margaret Braun have "left" the arts world and have mainly been traveling in the culinary arts sphere winning their recognition and awards from that world.
This award for me is a lovely validation in how I want to be perceived as an artist first and culinary arts second. Sort of snobby sounding but, I have an undergraduate degree in studio arts and having been playing in the backyard for decades and have never received this kind of recognition before.
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