Bonus Episode: How to Transform Your Grant Applications with Kimberlee Koym-Murteira
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You're listening to the Art Problems Podcast, Episode 108. I'm your host, Hattie Johnson. This is the podcast where we talk about how to get more shows, grants, and residencies. And before we dive into today's episode, I want to let you know about a free info session I'm hosting this Wednesday, February 25th at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time called How to Become a Biennial Artist. We're going to talk about what it actually takes to get into major exhibitions and how to build the kind of career that actually gets you noticed. You can register at the link in the show notes. Today, I'm talking with artist Kimberly Coyne Mortira, a Bay Area artist who joined Netwerk three years ago, feeling deeply insecure about her writing, despite loving her studio practice.
So she knew that she needed support to win more grants and she'd seen firsthand that when she had some help, She was really successful. And what I think is really remarkable about Kimberly's story is how much she really used the membership. She didn't just passively consume content. She dove into the reviews, asked for feedback constantly. and built relationships with mentors and peers who fundamentally changed how she documents her work and writes about it. And her applications improved so dramatically that she went from avoiding certain opportunities to applying for major grants like the Guggenheim. She actually won a lot of grants too. So there's a real success there. We talk about how she gets feedback within hours when she needs it.
why AI tools like Grammarly help but can't replace human editors, and how staying focused on her own path instead of competing locally has given her sustained hopefulness, even as six major galleries in the Bay Area have closed. So if you've ever wondered what it actually looks like to use a creative community to level up your practice, this conversation is really going to shed some light on that for you. Kimberly, welcome to the show. Thank you, Patti. Thank you for having me. I'm really honored. Yeah. Oh, well, I've wanted to talk to you for some time. You have been a member for a while. Can you tell our listeners how long you've been a Network member for?
Yeah, I've been a member for, I think, about three years now.
Yeah, so I would consider you to be a longtime member. You certainly have some institutional memory. You know all the different phases of NEPHR. What brought you to us?
Yeah, so you had done an artist statement workshop with the Black Cube in Denver, I think. Oh yeah, yep. Yeah, yeah. So a friend of mine had told me about that and it was free. And so I did that a couple of years before joining the membership. and yeah I remember that I yeah that at that time I was teaching a senior project class and you know I used your exercise with the students and so I remembered you from that and I had been in another art group and when that had I'd kind of maxed out like what I was getting out of That group and I was looking for something else and I happened to see you having the master class kind of thing. I listened to it and I went ahead and joined right away. Oh, cool.
How did Kimberlee Koym-Murteira transform her grant applications?
So. Can you give people just like a sense of what you were struggling with when you joined? Because you saw the masterclass and you joined, but I think it's helpful for people to understand why you felt like you needed to and what problems you thought might be solved.
Yeah, so I love working in the studio and I love always making things and I so self-conscious and insecure about my writing. And so I knew that, that I needed that support and I wanted to win more grants. And I had had the experience of, you know, when, when getting support, like I was successful. And so I just wanted to find more ways to do that on an ongoing basis.
That seems actually really clear. Like when you didn't have support, you were less successful with getting grants. You knew you wanted more grants. When you did have support, you got more. And actually, I would say that in my experience of your experience on network, that has been the case.
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