Budget and Timeline
We request $10,000 over three years, $5,000 in year one, and $2,500 each in years two and three. We will hire our two graphics artists, Virginia Smith and Jason Montgomery, to work on the above projects part-time. We expect to have them put in approximately one month each of intense time on the project, although the actual work may spread over several months at the beginning of the effort. This intense start-up push will provide the basis for attracting additional funds from the Dreyfus Foundation, NSF and/or private foundations such as those of Bellsouth, GE, DuPont and MCI/WorldCom. Most important, this first effort will allow us to implement the contests described, with contest entries evaluated during the summer or early in the following year. We hope to start this effort as soon as funding is available from the "Public Perception of Polymers" grant (assuming we are successful), with a start date of spring or summer of 2001.
The following two years' activities would be spread out during each year, with weekly efforts of about 1 day for each artist. When additional funds become available, this would increase to several days per week for the duration of the project.