The S’mores Grant Project provides grants for creative endeavors that engage with public environments. The grant is funded by artists selling s’mores, merchandise and more from a street vending cart. We make money, activate and transform public space , and share our earnings so others can do the same.
I would prefer a wood-burning system, but I have not come up with a design that the KCMO health department will approve. But there is still an opportunity to get around this if an efficient and safe system is designed. This could be a possibility for future carts.
The frame work provides support for the exterior covering and also the many components that need to be fastened and secured on the interior. The support frame is attached to a utility trailer that has a tow hitch.
The Smores Grant Project has been included in the upcoming threewalls publication PHONEBOOK 3, a directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects throughout the United States and a collection of essays written by the people who run them. PHONEBOOK 3 includes artist-run spaces, public programming, unconventional residencies, alternative schools, and community resources; all of the projects that form and support art ecologies across the nation, as well as historical documents marking their past. Phonebook 3 will be an essential guide for artists and arts administrators looking to connect with others in this ever-changing realm of independent artist-run culture, including everything from nonprofit and community institutions to flexible and self-organized art spaces. Featuring essays by Renny Pritikin, Susan Sakash, Faheem Majed, Chances Dances, Paul Durica, Dara Greenwald, Amy Franceschini, Jon Brumit and Sarah Wagner, PLAND, Andy Sturdevant, Sasha Dela, Robby Herbst and more.
PHONEBOOK 3 will be released at the Hand in Glove Conference in Chicago October 20-23rd, a national gathering for independent visual arts facilitators working at the crossroads of creative administration and studio practice. This conference is open to people engaged in the pragmatic realities and imaginative possibilities of organizing exhibitions, re-granting programs, publications, residencies, and a variety of other programming that challenges traditional formats for the production and reception of art at the grass-roots level. Join us for a national conversation on grassroots creative activity happening outside of traditional institutions and learn about innovative organizing models that could be useful to artists and organizers. Panel discussions will arts leaders across the country including Nato Thompson, AA Bronson, Martha Wilson, Joseph del Pesco, Courtney Fink, Daniel Tucker, Renny Pritik
threewalls is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse. Through a range of exhibition and public programs, including symposiums, lectures, performances and publications, threewalls creates a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities.
