Natalie is awarded her first Design Fellowship Award by the Alabama State Council on the Arts as part of the Individual Artist Fellowship Program. The Council’s goals are to support excellence and professionalism in the arts, increase public awareness and appreciation of artists, and promote diverse cultural artistic expression. These funds are utilized to stage an exhibition of photographs documenting her work with Project Alabama and the artisans of The Shoals community. The exhibition begins at the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, Tennessee and travels to a variety of locations over the course of the next year.
In 2016, Natalie is awarded a second Design Fellowship Award that is used to explore the creative process in artists and designers across many disciplines.
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Slide 1: Framed photographs of Project Alabama’s production and design studio at Lovelace Crossroads, photographs by Robert Rausch and Cynthia Connolly; These photos still hang at The Factory, home to our design studio, flagship store, and production facilities today
Slide 2: Team members at work, photographed in Project Alabama’s design studio at Lovelace Crossroads, photograph by Cynthia Connolly
Slide 3: Natalie Chanin’s polaroids to document design details of Project Alabama and Fernando Sanchez collaboration, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 4: A sunny afternoon in Project Alabama’s production studio at Lovelace Crossroads, photograph by Cynthia Connolly
Slide 5: Photograph from Fall/Winter 2003 Project Alabama Collection taken at the Oscar Wilde Suite, L’Hotel, Paris, France, photo by Les Deux Garçons, 2003, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 6: Photographs from Fall/Winter 2003 Project Alabama Collection taken at the Oscar Wilde Suite, L’Hotel, Paris, France, 2003, photos by Les Deux Garçons, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 7: Project Alabama’s ever growing collection of stamps from various projects and collaborations, photograph by Robert Rausch
Slide 8: Polaroids of early Corsets with beading and appliqué by Natalie Chanin, framed with a note commemorating the exhibition by a grant from the Alabama State Council of the Arts