Welcome to the (name of town here) Genestreams Songlines Sculpture Art fundraising page. This project is focused on cultural and ecological restoration through education. It celebrates scientific and traditional knowledge of the natural environment and the heritage of the songlines.
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The purpose of this page is to raise the required funding for the (name of town here) Genestreams Songlines Sculpture. Patrons of this project will enable the community to make visible their region’s unique environmental and indigenous stories.
Just as a coin has two sides to it so too does this sculpture. The outside of the sculpture features the work of indigenous artists of the region – this is the Songlines Sculpture. The inside of the sculpture is an evolutionary tree of selected regional species, the art speaks of the ecology, geology and deep time history of the region – this is a Genestreams Sculpture.
How a community can raise the funds for a Genestreams Songlines Sculpture
The Genestreams Sculptures Online Art Course is priced at $460 + GST
Our goal is to raise the required funding to pay for the creation of the (name of town here) Genestreams Songlines Sculpture and the art that decorates it through the sale of the Genestreams Sculptures online art course.
We aim to work with auspicing bodies who will assist each community in the fund raising processes through developing a strategic online campaign using social media.
Background: The creators of the internal art Ben Beeton and Mali Moir have developed a series of online art courses. The Genestreams Sculptures online art course fuses elements of an online course titled the Art of Nature with lessons specific to the natural history component of Genestreams Sculptures. (play film to learn more)
The fundraising project is broken down into three actions:
Action 1 focuses on raising funding for the selection of 15 local species that will be promoted in the sculpture and the development of a diagram that shows when the selected species plus humans shared common ancestry, 2 sales of the Genestreams Sculptures Online Art Course totaling $920 are required in total to commence Action 1.
Action 2 focuses on creating the art and its display on a digital 3d model of the sculpture on a website as a proof of concept for the sculpture, 60 sales of the Genestreams Sculptures Online Art Course totaling $27,600 are required in total to commence Action 2.
Action 3 focuses on steel fabrication and installation of the sculpture, 75 sales of the Genestreams Sculptures Online Art Course totaling $34,500 are required in total to commence Action 3.
For Actions 2 & 3 of the project there is a carbon offset in the form of funding revegetation programs through the Gondwana Link organization who funded the first Genestreams Sculpture at Twin Creeks WA.
Along with receiving the Genestreams Sculpture Online Course, patrons may, if they wish, include their names on the patrons page as contributors to the project.
About Action 1
Action 1: Raising funding for the selection of 15 species and the development of a diagram that shows when the selected species shared common ancestry. The total number of sales required to commence Action 1 is 2.
Funding breakdown per sale for Action 1.
- Research of a phylogenetic tree which depicts when the 16 selected species shared common ancestry in the geological time scale – $240
- Creation of the digital model of phylogenetic tree – $90
- Songlines Sculpture Project management team – $45
- Auspicing Body Project management team – $45 – Total $90
- Art Course Creators –$40
Below are examples of the outcome of Action 1 that were created for the Twin Creeks Genestreams Songlines Sculpture.
About Action 2
Action 2 focuses on raising funding for the art and the 3d digital model for web display, Proceeds from every two courses sold in Action 1 will commission one of 30 artworks to be created. The total number of sales required to commence Action 2 is 60.
15 artworks will be created for the Songlines Sculpture by the traditional owners of the region. These artworks will be in a traditional style and will focus on the regions traditional stories of country.
15 artworks will be created for the Genestreams Sculpture by the Genestreams sculptures in-house artists. These artworks will be based on research of the ecology, geology and deep time history of the region, with a focus on 15 selected local plant and animal species.
A digital reproduction of these artworks will decorate the sculpture.
The artworks will be commissioned for $500 each. Each artwork commissioned for the project will become part of the Genestreams Songlines Sculptures art collection. The long term objective is to build a significant collection of unique art that speaks of indigenous culture and/with the ecosystems of Australia with opportunities for nation wide touring exhibitions at public art institutions. This collection will tell stories of traditional knowledge along with conservation initiatives and the deep time journey of the region where these artworks have been created.
Funding breakdown per sale for Action 2.
- Artwork – $250 (two payments of $250 will be made per artwork totaling $500)
- Art Course Creators –$33
- Songlines Sculpture Project management team – $31
- Auspicing Body Project management team – $31 – Total $1,860
- Art materials – $25
- Postage of Art – $20
- Scanning of Art – $5
- Research and develop of a visual database on the ecology, geology and deep time history of the region – $5
- 3D digital model of the Genestreams Sculpture with art – $10
- Editing and uploading of short documentary style films telling the story of the sculpture from the perspective of the artists, traditional owners and conservationists – $10
- Website development for the project, includes turning 3D digital model into an interactive display – $15
- Augmented Reality installation – $15
- Revegetation work by Gondwana Link to act as a carbon offset for the project – $10
Below are examples of the outcome of Action 2 that were created for the Twin Creeks Genestreams Songlines Sculpture.
About Action 3
Action 3 focuses on raising funding for the fabrication and installation of the Genestreams Songlines Sculpture. The total number of sales required to commence Action 3 is 75.
Funding breakdown per sale for Action 3.
- Sculpture fabrication and installation – $260
- Digital printing of art to be placed on sculpture – $80
- Art Course Creators – $30
- Songlines Sculpture Project management team – $30
- Auspicing Body Project management team – $30 – Total $2,250
- Revegetation work by Gondwana Link to act as a carbon offset for the project – $30
Become a Patron
To become a patron in the creation of the (name of town here) Genestreams Songlines Sculptures please click on the purchase button below.
Number of Genestreams Songlines Sculptures online art courses sold thus far – (automated counter)
Objectives
Action 1 – 2 Sales
Action 2 – 60 Sales
Action 3 – 75 Sales
Total – 137 Sales
Auspicing body will receive
- Action 1 – $90
- Action 2 – $1,860
- Action 3 – $2,250
- Total – $4,200 per GSS
Below are examples of the outcome of Action 3 that were created for the Twin Creeks Genestreams Songlines Sculpture.
The Genestreams Songlines Sculptures initiative will have patrons in each state and territory. Our Western Australian patrons are professor Steve Hopper and Dr Noal Nannup.
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