FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

WISCONSIN

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc. (aka First Stage Children's Theater)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and production of The Wiz for family audiences. First Stage Children's Theater will adapt the script, re-orchestrate the piece, create a new score, and record an accompaniment CD for use by other theaters nationwide.

Florentine Opera Company, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support an audio recording and performances of Elmer Gantry, by composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein. Naxos International will create a compact disc recording for release in November 2011 and digital tracks will be available for download.

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Inc.
Wausau, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Las Artes de Mexico, an exhibit exploring centuries of Mexican art. Concurrent with the exhibit, Mexican American visual artist Juan Flores will guide youth in interactive workshops culminating in an exhibit of their work.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of The Turn of the Screw, by Benjamin Britten. The production continues the initiative recently established by the company to present chamber opera as an expansion of the mainstage performance series.

Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Val Caniparoli. The work will be presented at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Public Theatre
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Winter Voices: Native Stories to Warm the Heart, featuring storyteller, musician, and dancer Thirza Defoe. The organization will partner with Wisconsin Tribal Services to tour the production and accompanying workshops to multiple sites targeting American Indian families.

Northwoods NiiJii Enterprise Community, Inc.
Lac du Flambeau, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the architectural study and feasibility plan for the renovation and restoration of the Lac du Flambeau Indian Bowl. The facility, currently used for pow-wows, will be expanded to also include the Woodland Indian Art Center.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support artists' fees for a multi-state tour of a new production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Diane Garton Edie has condensed and adapted the operetta into a child-friendly version without sacrificing essential story line, language, or representative musical score.

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 and related new commissioned works. Artists will collaborate with area cultural minorities, at-risk youth, unions, industrial workers, seniors, persons with cognitive challenges, and domestic-abuse shelters to develop residency projects and community-based commissions.

VSA arts of Wisconsin, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support A Call for Art Exhibition, an initiative designed to recognize the artistic accomplishments of artists with disabilities in Wisconsin. Educational tours for youth, the development of publications related to the exhibit, and lectures by artist Jon Wos will assist in reaching the project's goals.

Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $142,500

 
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