OAC Grants

Early this year I was given one of the OAC grants for emerging artists. This OAC grant is a $2000 grant that gives funding to purchase art supplies and to participate in educational skill development. 

I started applying for OAC grants this past fall and I was excited to have received one. OAC stands for Ontario Arts Council. The OAC grants are a lengthy process to set up an account and submit your application online but they are worth it. 

By receiving OAC grants or other grants, artists can receive funding to make projects possible. $2000 is a lot of money and I am grateful to have received this grant as this project would not be financially possible without it. 

There are many different OAC grants available. You can learn more by clicking here!

It’s important to note that OAC grants are only for residents in Ontario. However, depending on where you live, the province or state, try Googling grants with your location to find other grants to apply to. 

OAC Grants- the OAC Grant Proposal

I will be using the money from the OAC grant to purchase paper making supplies including different types of pulp, mould and deckles and other paper making supplies. I will also be registering for some paper making and letterpress classes to be able to enhance my skills as a paper maker. Lastly, I will use some of the money to rent out a paper making studio place near where I live. I have until 2023 to complete this project. I started purchasing supplies and signing up for workshops this summer of 2022. 

I plan on making sheets of map paper using recycled maps and using the letter press to write some of my poems on the paper. I also want to make more large sheets of the map paper to be able to do large installations of my work Patched. You can read more about the Patched project here! 

Jackie Partridge, Patched Project

If you are interested in applying to OAC grants you can click here to check their deadlines. 

I appreciate the financial support of OAC grants for funding my art practice! 

To find out more about the project check out my instagram @jackiepartridge_    and search the #patchedproject

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Art Competition London

My art is featured in an art competition London, Ontario at the Kellogg Factory. The art competition takes place at an art gallery London, Ontario at 100 Kellogg Lane. The Art Competition London selected 100 artists to include 100 artworks. The exhibition lasts for 100 days and ends on September 8, 2022. 

Voting closes for the Art Competition London on September 4, 2022. There are two $100 000 prizes one is for people’s choice where you can vote for your favourite artwork and the other is for juror’s choice where the jury will select their favourite artwork. 

100 Kellogg Lane is a transformed space it used to be the old Kellogg Factory. Now it is a communal hub in London, Ontario that has a brewery, indoor climbing centre, art gallery, Starbucks, icecream, hairdressers and more! 

See the Art Competition London This Summer 2022

Click this link to see where different pieces are located: https://100kellogglane.com/uploads/2022/05/cid57AA9844-8638-4CD6-9456-AEF560EF4750.pdf 

With each email address you have that counts as a vote! Please share this voting link with your friends and family to help me win! 

Vote here: https://artcomp.awardsplatform.com 

How to Vote

You can vote by registering an account you need to add in your name and email and create a password. Follow the instructions of the password -it needs to be 12 characters, have an uppercase, a number and a special symbol like an !.

Once you receive an email you can click on the link and you will have to sign into the account you made. Next find my artwork “Precariously Perched.” Make sure to hit the vote button. It will say voted when you are done!

Thank you for voting!

What am I showing in the Art Competition London?

I am showing a piece called Precariously Perched. This piece is a large site-specific installation that features many twisted strands of map paper balancing on tiny pins that come out from the wall. The piece is about fragility and the passage of time. Some pieces of map paper rest on the ground with empty pins on the wall signaling the passage of time. You can read more about this project here.

Precariously Perched - Photo taken by Scott Lee

Make sure to Vote for the Art Competition London! 

You can vote for your favourite artwork here: 

https://artcomp.awardsplatform.com

What would I do if I won the Art Competition London? 

It would be a great honour to have my art recognized. Often as an artist you are not paid properly and it’s hard to make a consistent income with your art alone. I would use some of that money to invest into my business so I could be an artist full time! I would use some money to buy a house and of course to make sure it has a studio. Lastly, I would use the money to produce more free content like YouTube videos on my painting channel and other free resources on my website! 5% of the money I would donate to help the environment. 

Again, please share this voting link with your friends and family to help me win! 

https://artcomp.awardsplatform.com 

Thank you for sharing the voting platform and for voting for my art in the Art Competition London for my work Precariously Perched. It really means a lot! 

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Patched by Jackie Partridge

Patched by Jackie Partridge has been an ongoing installation and photography project since 2017 where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.

Watch the Patched Installation

I have done these installations in various places I have lived and travelled including:

• Rosendale, New York

• Johnson, Vermont

• Waterloo Region

• Kinmount

• Huntsville

• Gravenhurst 

Recent Patched Installations

Patched is installed in Regency Park in Waterloo, ON for the month of July, 2021.

You can see more about this project funded by the City of Waterloo and Create Waterloo - here!

With this funding I also created free seed starter kits - you can see the instructions for the kits- here.

Here is a photo from the installation:

In 2018, I was awarded a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund to create my book Patched which included nature poems about trees and my series of Patched as coloured photographs.

You can purchase Patched by Jackie Partridge - by clicking on the product or heading to my shop!

Patched - Collection of Poems and Photographs (Hardcover Book)

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In the summer of 2019, I created a large-scale installation of Patched on a tree on my grandmother’s property in Kinmount, ON.

Patched by Jackie Partridge Video of Installation (Sped Up):

I created a large sheet of map paper on a vacuum table that sucks out the water from the pulp on my artist residency in 2018 and the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. I then used a spray bottle of water to dampen the paper and turn it back into to pulp to apply it onto the tree.

To see more from the project click here!

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On my instagram @jackiepartridge_ I share photos from this series that can be found searching the hashtag #patchedproject.

Patched Ebook

Patched Ebook is a digital version of Jackie Partridge Patched Book. Patched was published in 2018 with the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. It is a book of 38 pages- a collection of images colour printed of trees around Waterloo Region that have been altered by adding map paper pulp in areas where the bark has naturally peeled away.

In addition to the photographs in my book- there are a series of nature appreciation poems. I began completing this ongoing series of photography during my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University while I was in the Fibres and Material Practices Program. I was living in Montreal and visited a nearby park often as it reminded me of home. Being in nature and walking in the woods was very meditative and calming for me. I began to really notice the trees and how the bark naturally peeled away exposing them. Since I was interested in paper making I started to add map paper pulp of recycled maps of places I have been onto the trees where the bark was naturally gone and saw this as a poetic form of mending or an offering back to the tree. 

 At the back of the book I have included information about my art process. To see more about this Patched series - click here!

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Patched installation using handmade map paper by Jackie Partridge

I sell my published hard cover book for $50. And I sell my ebook for $9.99. The Ebook is a digital PDF version of my hardcover book.

Head to this link to see my hardcover book!

Take a Look at my Ebook here!

Check out my Instagram by clicking the icon below and search the #patchedproject to see photos from this series!

Patched - Collection of Poems and Photographs (Hardcover Book)

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