FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

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

WISCONSIN

Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc.
Oregon, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the tour of Laughing Bodies/Dancing Minds, choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping. Workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and performances will take place in Wisconsin, California, Iowa, Ohio, New York, and Canada.

Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support HeartStrings, a community outreach project. An ensemble of emerging professional string musicians will perform interactive recitals for underserved and special-needs communities.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Artworks. The after-school program will partner teenage interns and professional artists to create a public work of art. Later, the teens will transfer knowledge they have acquired to younger children.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (aka MIAD)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Teach/DESIGN program. Design professionals will provide hands-on residences for approximately 100 students in four middle and high schools.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a series of radio programs featuring the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. The WFMT Radio Network will distribute 13, two-hour concert programs to 241 cities across the country.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka MYSO)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Progressions program. The after-school scholarship program will provide hands-on music training and orchestral music experience to predominantly African American and Latino students in the 3rd and 4th grade.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
Sheboygan, WI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Connecting Communities and the commissioning of new works. Artists will collaborate with area cultural minorities, the elderly, industrial and farm families, youth at risk, and domestic abuse shelters to develop residency projects and community-based commissions.

Skylight Opera Theatre Corp. (aka Skylight Opera Theatre)
Milwaukee, WI
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the 1881 satirical opera Patience. The theater will produce the work in its Student Matinee Series and offer artist presentations and educational activities in schools and community venues.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a public folklorist/archivist position and related costs. Activities will include surveying, cataloging, and conserving documentary materials and products within the upper Midwest.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Community Strings Partnership, a collaborative effort between the Strings Pedagogy program and the Latino Arts Strings program. The sequential, after-school music project will engage students, ages six to 18, in the weekly study of their selected instrument for as many as 44 weeks.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture coordinator position and related costs. Responsibilities will include the implementation of a pilot professional development program for folk artists who want to expand their capacity for working in K-12 schools.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$628,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Wisconsin Humanities Council (on behalf of Wisconsin Book Festival)
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2006 Wisconsin Book Festival, now in its fifth year. Over five days, the festival features almost 100 free events, including author readings, lectures, writing workshops, children's activities, and open mic slams.

Woodland Pattern, Inc. (aka Woodland Pattern Book Center)
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of readings, exhibits, and community workshops. Participating writers will include Ron Silliman, Cole Swenson, Lyn Hejinian, John Ashbery, Edwin Torres, and Harryette Mullen.

Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $880,300

 
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