The Media Arts Advantage Fund-Four WNC Artists Selected
Date Posted: 5/14/2007
Asheville, NC – Local media arts projects ranging from a documentary about coal mining to a theatrical rendering of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” have received a needed boost thanks to the Daniel DeLaVergne Media Arts Advantage Fund (MAAF). The fund, established in 2005 in memory of a world-renowned whitewater cinematographer and local filmmaker, promotes innovative media arts and film in Western North Carolina.
The recipients and their projects are as follows:
• Bowie van Ling - Skyscraper Graffiti, a project that will bring together graffiti artists, calligraphers, video professionals and the larger community in a collaborative Fourth of July display, $1900
• Pamela O’Connor – Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” a multi-disciplinary theatrical installation combining puppetry, video projections and spoken word, $1500
• Adams Wood – “A Piece of Heaven,” a documentary film examining the effect of modern-day coal mining on two West Virginia families, $1500
• Michael Folliett – Crate “Version 2.0 Asheville,” a media literacy/multimedia summer workshop for youth, $1100
Three independent judges selected the winning projects from nineteen submissions. Judging were multimedia pioneer Ken Jordan, Emmy award-winning producer David Flanders and UNC-A assistant multimedia professor Lei Han
MAAF is a joint project of AdvantageWest and MAP. The reception was sponsored by Haywood Park Hotel, Biltmore Estate, O'Phelia's World Cafe and Bar, French Broad Brewery, Fine Arts Theatre, Music Allies, Lee Nesbitt and Lamoille Graybeal.
AdvantageWest is a public-private partnership established by the state General Assembly to promote economic development in Western North Carolina.
MAP cultivates innovative arts and technology in western North Carolina by providing exhibition programming, professional development, outreach and education. The organization’s long-term goals are to support the development of a Media Arts Center, a state-of-the-art facility for interdisciplinary exchange, and to send media arts and technologies from the southeastern United States onto the international stage.
To learn more about MAP and their digital media center plans, visit their website at www.themap.org.
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"As a life-long resident of western North Carolina I can’t imagine a more beautiful or diverse place to live and work."
D. Samuel Neill
Attorney-At-Law & AdvantageWest Board Member
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