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Guest Blogger Matt Evans: MakeWork Makes, Well, Work Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A few months ago, recipients of CreateHere’s MakeWork Arts Grants made the news. I’m sure not a few people pictured the grant winners as victorious, ready to ride off into the sunset with their prizes.
But there’s a reason the grants have their name.
I thought about giving a play-by-play account of my schedule this past week for this blog posting, but thought better of it: it’d tire you out to read it. My grant was awarded to help develop a business plan for the Mountain Music Folk School, and our first semester of group music classes starts in just over a week. This represents the initial tangible, public result of the grant I won, and I’ve been out, with the help of the talented and tireless Christie Burns, co-founder of the folk school, beating as many bushes as possible to try to drum up interest and enrollment for the classes. In fact, we’ve been hard at work since June to make this happen: bringing the Executive Director of the Folk School of St. Louis to town, working with a local business advisor, and many, many more tasks.
But before you think this posting is about how overworked I am, let me tell you how excited and energized all this has made me. We have had so much support and encouragement from far too many sources to name, and we are confident that what we set out to do, bring music to Chattanoogans in new way, is well on its way to happening. So, check out our website, http://www.mmfolk.com, spread the word, enroll, get excited and involved in this new opportunity in your city.
By Matt Evans, 2009 MakeWork Grantee and co-founder of Mountain Music Folk School
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