Capture Chattanooga is an interdisciplinary group of photographers, filmmakers, folklorists, storytellers, painters, musicians and writers working together to create and present culture-centered contextural works of art in, for, and about Chattanooga.
Capture Chattanooga will produce collaborative and solo projects including exhibits, live performances, publications, online multimedia, and film, and provide technical resources for Chattanoogans to creatively document their lives and archive their stories.
Because we recognize the synergistic potential of this location, Capture Chattanooga has chosen a studio space on Rossville Avenue. We join Terry Cannon, Ignis Glass Studios, Thomas Mann, and the Chattanooga Pulse in this burgeoning creative movement on the southside.
Our centralized location on the southside will put us literally at the crossroads both physically and metaphorically. We envision working in an open studio where anyone can see works in progress, record their own story in the soundbooth, search our archives, browse the current exhibit, make a purchase, or contribute ideas for our next project. We endeavour to create an atmosphere that inspires and illuminates our commitment to the bigger picture as a body of work.
In its first year, Capture Chattanooga will produce four unique events showcasing the intersection of artists in the collective, beginning with a portfolio exhibition of the group's principal artists. The entire series of exhibit events will be held in the all new Loose Cannon performance hall and gallery.
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What is "the bigger picture" at the end of the frouth paragraph?
i see it this way:
the bigger picture is that we all seem to see the importance of this kind of work, outside of our livelihood, and this vehicle we're calling Capturing Chattanooga and the art byproducts created from the cultural stories we seek to tell in this way will, as a result of our committment, now forever exist for future generations.
perhaps it will all wind up buried in the bottom of a box like a pirated copy of CS2 somewhere.
but imagine you're jim pfitzer-esque in the year 2058 trying to write a story about a place and stumbling upon some video/audio exhibit projects done in the early 2000's. What a resource.
does that make any sense?
Yes, that makes sense. I just don't get any of that from the statement in the statement, so if that's what you want to say, maybe it, the big picture as a body of work, needs expppppaaaannnndddddiiiinnngggg
a little, or re-wording since people reading this won't know what we're thinking until we tell them. (And now for my one per coment/posting allowed smiley per Christie.)
;-)
Rick, don't make me come over there.
the way i understand this drafting phase is, this is in no way the complete narrative. this is an exercise in collecting our collective thoughts about what to include in our Executive Summary. I imagine this will be pulled apart and retooled into sections for mission/vision/value/goals/strategies. I think EVERYTHING mentioned in the draft will be eeeexxxxppppaaaannnneddddeedddd.
Ooooookkkkkkkkaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy! ;-) (Just one!)
I love the work on the statement. One comment. though. I think "litterally," "metaphorically" and "physically" in one sentence might be a bit rough. Can the "literally" go? It doesn't seem needed to me.
can we use actually instead of literally. ..kidding. of course it can go.
i think that the meaning behind that line needs expanding, just like some other ideas in the draft. what do you think?
christie and i have started reading a book on non profit management that i borrowed. If Grace has any other templates she can lend in terms of next steps, and processes to engage in to flesh this all out as a plan, and into a document that would be very helpful.
grace? you in here?...
Actually, I like "literally" but it doesn't actually mean literally the same thing as "actually," so a substitution seems, actually, like a literal mistake, to put it bluntly.
not if it were done intentionally.
I'll shut up now.
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