SOURCE arts awards first art grant for 2009 festival

SOURCE arts has awarded the first of 5 art grants for this years festival to Mavis Muller. Mavis was a core art contributor for last years festival creating the Whale Tail that has been heavily documented.

Her complete proposal is included below to provide those of you applying for a grant with a template of succesful proposal. The deadline for submission is February 3, 2009.

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Greetings Source,

My name is Mavis Muller, I am a visiting artist from Homer, Alaska
here to participate with Source. My roundtrip airfare is covered by a
grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

I was a participant with Source last year with a grant from the Black
Rock Arts Foundation to continue with a project that I started called
the Burning Basket Project which I began in 2004.

I created Fluke – Burning Basket of Safe Passage, which was a woven
whale tail representing the connection between Alaska and Hawaii by
way of the Pacific ocean and the migrating whales and shorebirds. It
was interactive, and met it’s conclusion through fire. This was the
12th in the series.

This year, again, I plan to create a 8′ outdoor sculpture of an
intricately woven basket using natural materials that I have gathered
locally such as; mulberry and hibiscus branches, tall grass, and palm.
(Sketches and photos included.)

This sculpture will be given as a gift to the community of those
attending the festival. It will be interactive for people of all ages.

All are invited to decorate the outside of the basket with natural
embellishments, flowers, and written sentiments of inspiration.
Personal sentiments may be tucked inside in the theme of releasing as
this sculpture will be burned, releasing all the heartfelt sentiments
in the sparks, flames, and smoke.

I plan to create a 15 minute DVD documenting this art project that can
be used in future lectures, for networking, and as gifts. I will
dedicate a page on my website, mavismullerart.com, with a link to
Source.

This woven sculpture will be the 15th in a series of burning basket
enactments in different communities in Alaska, Oregon, California,
Hawaii, and upcoming New Mexico.

I am requesting an art grant to help subsidize the cost of supplies,
etc, as listed below. Thank you. Mavis Muller

Supplies;
2 spools small gauge wire $4. ea. 8.
2 boxes screws $4. ea. 8.
hemp twine 4.

Tools;
utility knife 3.
needle-nose plier 14.
pruning shears 12.

Interactive materials;
colored pencils/ Sharpies 15.

Documentation;
15 DVD 17.
website page 40.

Total; $ 120.

Pulse
Burning Basket of Love & Freedom

(Pulse; A regular or rhythmical beating of the human heart; The
perceptible emotions or sentiments of a group of people; To beat,
throb, or vibrate with excitement and liveliness.)

Reaching into the roots of human history come these symbols of the
HEART, the WINGS, and the HEART WITH WINGS.

H E A R T

Many, many cultures use the heart as a symbol of the CENTER OF LIFE,
CENTER OF BEING, CENTER OF SPIRITUALITY.

To the Aztecs, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Celts, Taoists, the
heart represents TOGETHERNESS, LOVE, UNITY, SALVATION, CONSCIENCE,
GODDESS LOVE, and PEACE.

In Christianity a heart is shining with the heavenly light that is the
LOVE of GOD.

In African Voo Doo it represents Erzuli, “spirit” of LOVE. BEAUTY, PURITY.

In Tarot, a burning heart symbolizes LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, LIFE FROM WATER,
FERTILITY, FORTUNE and JOY .

“With love the heart has wings.” Sufi motto.

W I N G S

Often associated with birds and angels, wings represent SPEED,
ELEVATION, FREEDOM of SPIRIT, ASPIRATIONS.

Wings carry an element of MAGIC, ALCHEMY, and TRANSFORMATION, as with
the fairies, dragons, and winged horses.

Military interpretation of wings is VALOR, BRAVERY of highest order.

Harley Davidson riders wear wings to signify PRIDE & INDEPENDENCE.

H E A R T W I T H W I N G S

With unbounded freedom, the wings on a heart are reaching upward, to a
lofty height, carrying love, and dispensing love with each wing beat.

The flaming heart with wings lifts and scatters our gratitude for the
beauty that surrounds us, the blessings in our lives, the bounty of
the earth,
and for the beauty of our life purpose. For all that is kindled and
stoked by the gift of love.

The greatest fire there is, is the fire of love.

May the memories of this fire keep us illuminated and connected.