Last January, Burlington City Arts announced that Burlington artist Kate Donnelly was the 2013 recipient of the annual Barbara Smail Award. That honor, named for a late local artist, comes with a $1500 stipend, $1000 worth of classes in any BCA studio, and three months in the fourth-floor space of the BCA Center.

Thing is, it wouldn’t kick in until June 12. But that happens to be tomorrow, and Donnelly is ready to get crackin’ on her … “examination of the mundane routines in everyday life.” Huh?

In a recent grant application that Donnelly shared with me, she sheds a little more light on her hard-to-explain project, called “A Period of Confinement.”

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Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...