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Granted, They Should Be Thanked

05 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by emilypageart in art, book, culture, gratitude, kindness, painting, Uncategorized, writing

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You may remember that, last year, I applied for and received a grant to help me publish Fractured Memories. I realized that I never properly or publicly acknowledged who provided the grant, and I want to do that now. The United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County essentially sponsored the book with a generous grant. I’m preparing my final report for them now that the book is complete and out there for the world to see, and realized that I definitely spent way more than the grant awarded, but it was absolutely invaluable in two ways: 1) it allowed me to justify taking some time off from teaching classes because I knew that it was paying for me to hire my instructors to cover those shifts, and 2) it affirmed for me that the project was worth pursuing. We all need a little external affirmation now and then, and getting it from an “official” arts program gave me more confidence going into the writing and publishing process.

So a huge thank you goes out to the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County for helping achieve a dream and further my career as an artist in many senses of the word.

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Artist Grant

22 Friday Jul 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, culture, Fractured Memories, gratitude, humor, painting, Uncategorized, writing

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Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod! I just won a grant! Not Ulysses S. Grant – although that’d be pretty cool, if maybe a little stinky since he’s been dead so long – but a grant for the book and related art! This is the first time I’ve ever won one (wow, say “won one” 3 times fast and you start to sound like Lavender in Harry Potter calling Ron “WonWon”) and my husband is taking a nap so I can’t jump up and down and scream like I want to. Thus, you’re getting all the crazy excited thoughts spewing out of me. I won a grant, y’all! I’m a real artist!! I’m like Pinocchio when he realized he was a real boy only my nose isn’t going to grow when I lie (just when I get too old…seriously, why do people’s ears and noses get so much bigger when they’re old??!!). Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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