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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

WISCONSIN

Arts Wisconsin, Inc. (Consortium)
Madison, WI
$27,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Portable Wisconsin and technical assistance in the use of online media for arts workers and creative entrepreneurs. In an innovative partnership with the University of Wisconsin Extension and its PortalWisconsin.org website, Arts Wisconsin will develop mobile web apps, content syndication widgets, and geo-enabling software to give cultural organizations, creative sector entrepreneurs, news outlets, residents, and visitors individualized access to calendar information.

Chippewa Valley Museum
Eau Claire, WI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support State of Superior, Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture's 2012 Here at Home Cultural Tour. The project will support a folklife survey of the state's far northwest and the Lake Superior south shore regions, which will inform a professional development program that will introduce teachers to local traditional artists and demonstrate how to integrate local culture into classroom curricula.

Express Yourself Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance featuring Express Yourself Milwaukee (EYM) participants. EYM programming exposes inner-city youth ages seven to 21 to the performing and visual arts and provides performance opportunities in collaboration with guest artists. Past artists have included Cammie Griffin of the dance and percussion collective STOMP and Amlak Tafari, bassist for the popular reggae band Steel Pulse.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Galileo Galilei by composer Philip Glass and librettists Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein. Key artistic personnel include stage director A. Scott Parry, artistic director John DeMain, soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, baritone John Arnold, bass Dean Peterson, and conductor Kelly Kuo who will lead an 11-piece chamber ensemble.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc. (aka The Rep)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a musical production of Next to Normal, composed by Tom Kitt, with libretto and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and directed by artistic director Mark Clements with accompanying community and student educational programming. The award-winning contemporary musical portrays a family grappling with depression and mental illness.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Run Up to Carnegie, a performance project in Milwaukee and in New York City as part of the Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. Programming will feature works by three generations of French composers--Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, and Qigang Chen--as well as related educational activities.


Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $127,000

 
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