It is amazing and puzzling because Republicans have no plan to revitalize rural Rural America in terms of education, housing and upward mobility. To 'demand' from President Biden what they did not vote for is insanity. If you don't support progress, you cannot demand progress.
I just checked out the Civic Ventures website and signed up for your newsletter. I am of a very similar philosophy and believe in growth from the roots up not the top down.
However there is no contact information and so this is me contacting you.
As it happens, my family business, Andersen Design, is in ceramic art and design, using slip-cast production as an artform and so I am aware of Mudshark studios located in Washington State. I am aware that Mudshark got started using a federal program that sent a consultant on site to help set up processes, as Mudshark started as a guy making molds.
I have been in contact with Mudshark and they are very pro-active but I have never been able to find the funds to work with them as I would like to. We have an unususally large line of classic designs of nature sculptures and functional forms created since the 1950's that were never mass produced on a large scale and are still in demand. Since we lost our business in a home that housed our production so that we no longer produce, the price of our line has escalated in secondary markets, in example, our classic chickadee sculpture that we retailed for under fifty dollars now is quite commonly sold for one hundred and fifty dollars- so there is a lot of potential there.
The same federal program that helped Mudshark get started was used very differently in Maine. It was used by the state to acquire the means of production in a public-privately owned facility under the rubric of job training. It does not make practical sense to me to purchase the equipment rather than having the training take place at the busienss that already has the equipment and so I believe Maine is operating out of a very different agenda.
To make a very long story short, I am looking for people willing to serve on a board of the Andersen Design Museum of American Designer-Craftsmen, which would have a function as a fiscal sponsor for grass-roots designer craftsmen in any media to help them get started (and Andersen Design restarted as a separate private enterprise). It would be specifically target a class of entrepreneurs- grass roots entrepreneurs for which there is not a lot of support. Maybe your group is a perfect fit?
You can read more about it in my Substack Blog, Mackenzie Andersen's The Individual vs the Empire, where I frequently cover local rural politics in my quest for support of my own vision.
It is amazing and puzzling because Republicans have no plan to revitalize rural Rural America in terms of education, housing and upward mobility. To 'demand' from President Biden what they did not vote for is insanity. If you don't support progress, you cannot demand progress.
I just checked out the Civic Ventures website and signed up for your newsletter. I am of a very similar philosophy and believe in growth from the roots up not the top down.
However there is no contact information and so this is me contacting you.
As it happens, my family business, Andersen Design, is in ceramic art and design, using slip-cast production as an artform and so I am aware of Mudshark studios located in Washington State. I am aware that Mudshark got started using a federal program that sent a consultant on site to help set up processes, as Mudshark started as a guy making molds.
I have been in contact with Mudshark and they are very pro-active but I have never been able to find the funds to work with them as I would like to. We have an unususally large line of classic designs of nature sculptures and functional forms created since the 1950's that were never mass produced on a large scale and are still in demand. Since we lost our business in a home that housed our production so that we no longer produce, the price of our line has escalated in secondary markets, in example, our classic chickadee sculpture that we retailed for under fifty dollars now is quite commonly sold for one hundred and fifty dollars- so there is a lot of potential there.
The same federal program that helped Mudshark get started was used very differently in Maine. It was used by the state to acquire the means of production in a public-privately owned facility under the rubric of job training. It does not make practical sense to me to purchase the equipment rather than having the training take place at the busienss that already has the equipment and so I believe Maine is operating out of a very different agenda.
To make a very long story short, I am looking for people willing to serve on a board of the Andersen Design Museum of American Designer-Craftsmen, which would have a function as a fiscal sponsor for grass-roots designer craftsmen in any media to help them get started (and Andersen Design restarted as a separate private enterprise). It would be specifically target a class of entrepreneurs- grass roots entrepreneurs for which there is not a lot of support. Maybe your group is a perfect fit?
You can read more about it in my Substack Blog, Mackenzie Andersen's The Individual vs the Empire, where I frequently cover local rural politics in my quest for support of my own vision.