Celeste Smeland with Ellen Lake
Class #88:
Tuesdays, September 11 & 18, 6-8pm
Tuition: $50
Looking for funding for your next ambitious project? In this two evening workshop, you will have a chance to develop your grant writing skills and learn how to create a professional proposal presentation. The basics of artist and nonprofit organization collaboration, how to access funding resources, and current regional opportunities for artists will also be covered.
Celeste Smeland is Development Director for Kala. She has more than 25 years of non-profit arts administration experience and has worked with many Bay Area organizations, including the Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, Bay Area Discovery Museum, SFSU School of the Arts, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the San Francisco Women’s Building Celeste holds B.A. degrees in Fine Arts and Women’s Studies from San Francisco State University, and a M.A. in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University. She is a practicing artist, with an emphasis on drawing and printmaking.
Ellen Lake, Kala's Grants Manager, received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2002, where she studied sculpture, film & video, and installation. She is the recipient of Bay Area Video Coalition’s 2005/2006 Mediamaker Award and the 2009 Sarah Jacobson Award. In addition to writing grants for Kala, for other artists, and for her own projects, she is currently working on a body of work combining disposable media and vintage home movies. Work from this series has shown at the Walker Art Center, Exit Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Axiom Gallery, Cinema by the Bay/Roxie Theater, Disposable Film Festival, and Temescal Street Cinema.