The Grant

Last year in the summer the San Diego Foundation released a grant- The Creative Catalyst Individual Artist Fellowship, where a group of selected emerging San Diego Artist could potentially be awarded a grant. The grant was for artist in all disciplines with the gift of time (one year), space (the sponsor company that the artist could apply under), mentorship (from the sponsor company, and community to create new work (the project would need to involve the company).

Well, in the summer, with the support of my friends (the Chones & Chanclas ladies) I applied from the grant. I did not apply for this grant because I was creating a project specially for the grant, I applied because a few months back the C&C ladies got together and talked about creating a new theatre piece that would potential create future projects for us.

So, in July I started the application. I barely made the application deadline because I had written down the wrong date (and to be quite honest the writing was not my proudest... I'm not a good writer I know... so imagine me writing something last minute... not good).

Luckily, the message got through to the company I applied and my application was selected. Once the company selected my application, I had to apply with the company for the grant, so we did!

In November we (San Diego Junior Theatre & Me (individual artist) were moved to the next phase, the interview. I was interviewed in front of 6 people who asked me questions about my project and past works.

In December I got a phone call from JT congratulating me, "We got the grant!" I immediately called my partner in crime, Crystal Mercado and told her "we" got the grant... although the grant is under my name, Crystal has fully been involved in this project, which I am very happy about.

So, the question you might be wondering is... "what the heck is this project you are talking about?" right?

Well, check out the article: http://www.signonsandieg.com/news/2011/dec/23/San-Diego-Foundation-grants/

more to come soon!