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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

WISCONSIN

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (aka MMoCA)
Madison, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the MMoCAkids School Tour Program, a program for K-12 students and teachers that provides subsidies for bus transportation, substitute teachers, small-group tours, and teaching materials to help teachers integrate museum visits into their classroom curriculum.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a statewide tour by the orchestra. Performances in communities across Wisconsin will be conducted by new Music Director Edo de Waart and resident conductor Stuart Chafetz.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
Sheboygan, WI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Connecting Communities program and related commissioning of new works. Artists will collaborate with area cultural minorities, at-risk youth, unions, industrial workers, seniors, post-operative patients, and domestic abuse shelters to develop residency projects and community-based commissions.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka John Michael Kohler Arts Center) (Consortium)
Sheboygan, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a community-based artist residency and creation of a public artwork. The Kohler Arts Center, in partnership with the Sheboygan Area School District, will host the artist team Wowhaus for a six-week artist residency.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a three-week residency with the Susan Marshall Dance Company to restage sections of Marshall's work Cloudless on University of Wisconsin dance students. The residency will feature master classes, daily rehearsals, and a free public presentation about Susan Marshall's work.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of choreographer Mark Morris's Canonic 3/4 Studies (1982). The premiere of the work will coincide with Masculine/Feminine, a school-wide series focusing on gender and the arts, that will include activities in theater, film, music, visual arts, and dance.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$818,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Woodland Pattern, Inc. (aka Woodland Pattern Book Center)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of readings, exhibits, community workshops, book art exhibits, and art-making activities. Authors presented reflect a range of genres including fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and come from a variety of cultural backgrounds.


Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $958,100

 
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