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Nicole Musgrave

2023 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Whitesburg) $6,350 to lead two improvisational courses for female, nonbinary and trans youth and adults in Eastern Kentucky that will explore the basics of quilting and quilting traditions from various cultures. Activities will provide participants opportunities to identify and heal perfectionism, discuss how creating something by hand with discarded materials subverts consumerist culture and broaden their awareness of the history of quilting while complicating assumptions about who quilts.

Previous Grants

2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Whitesburg) $4,800 to create a series of quilted textile collages that will explore intersecting themes of gender roles, cultural and family inheritances, personal memory, and economic justice. This will prepare her to transition her quilt practice from the private sphere to the public sphere and allow her to develop new skills and ideas to integrate into her community-centered work. 

2021 Art Meets Activism Grant | (Whitesburg): $4,496 to lead two improvisational quilting courses for female, non-binary, and trans youth and adults in eastern Kentucky. Activities will provide participants opportunities to heal perfectionism, discuss how creating by hand with discarded materials subverts consumerist culture, broaden their awareness of the history of quilting, and complicate assumptions about who quilts.

Category

AE, AE 2022, AMA, AMA 2021, AMA 2023, Visual, Visual, Visual