2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

WISCONSIN

Appleton

Lawrence University of Wisconsin (on behalf of Lawrence Academy of Music)
Appleton, WI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support a jazz education program during non-school hours that will offer children an exploration into the history of jazz and its Afrocentric roots. The new initiative is an extension of the University's Lawrence Academy of Music and will have three main components: a Saturday Morning Live program, an after-school program and summer day camps.

Madison

Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$13,000
To support Up Close & Musical. The partnership between the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music is designed to help kindergarten through second grade students experience classical music.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$40,000
To support Wisconsin Folks. The project is an online curriculum for students, resource for educators and hiring directory for artists.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$589,300
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Milwaukee

Danceworks, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the 50-Plus Initiative, a dance and creative arts program for older adults. Workshops, classes, exhibitions, residencies and performances will be adapted for high-functioning older adults, low-functioning and frail elderly, and for those with physical and cognitive disabilities, including Alzheimer's disease.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition American Fancy: Imagination and Style in the 19th Century Home, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project will examine a wide range of objects to identify and define "fancy" in the context of the history of American decorative arts.

Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee, WI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$90,000
To support arts instruction for elementary school students. Fine arts activities including painting, drawing, dance, music, theater, creative writing and poetry will take place in schools and community settings, with a special emphasis on reaching underserved populations of public school students.

Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Ltd.
Milwaukee, WI
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support exhibitions and performances that will introduce multiethnic, low-income audiences to traditional and contemporary art forms. Work from a range of disciplines including visual art, craft, performance art and digital art will be presented.

Oshkosh

Paine Art Center & Gardens, Inc.
Oshkosh, WI
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$23,000
To support Discover Art! Looking and Creating. This interactive exhibit module for children, ages six to 12, and their families will feature "looking" areas, where visitors will see and discuss reproductions of works in the Paine collection and a "creating" area where they can create their own work.

Phillips

Friends of Fred Smith, Inc.
Phillips, WI
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a conservation project to treat art works in the Wisconsin Concrete Park, an installation created by self-taught artist Fred Smith. Specific works, more than 200 sculptures and tableaux, will receive treatment, including the potential replication of a set of original organic antlers.

Wauwatosa

Wauwatosa Historical Society, Inc. (consortium)
Wauwatosa, WI
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of WPA murals, decorative plasterwork, and ornamental tile on the ceiling and entryway of Wauwatosa East High School. The murals, long concealed by drop ceiling panels, will be conserved by a professional conservator working with artists in collaboration with the school district and the city government.

Wisconsin Total Dollars Awarded: $873,300
Wisconsin Total Grants Awarded: 11

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