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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Inc (Consortium)
Sheboygan, WI
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artists-in-residence program. In collaboration with the Plymouth School District, the Kohler Arts Center  will provide two-week residencies for eight visual artists during the 2011-12 school year.

Madison Cultural Arts District (aka Overture Center for the Arts)
Madison, WI
$37,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts Education Initiative. In partnership with the Madison Ballet, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Opera, Children's Theater of Madison, and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Madison Metropolitan School District schools, Overture Center for the Arts will oversee a year-long interdisciplinary after-school arts program led by professional artists for sixth-grade students.

Madison Music Makers, Inc.
Madison, WI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Madison Music Makers. The program provides free after-school instrumental music lessons and performance opportunities to students in the local community.

Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support HeartStrings, a community outreach project by an ensemble of the orchestra's professional string musicians that will provide residency programs and perform interactive recitals for underserved and special-needs communities. Through 90 residency programs reaching 20 to 25 participants during each session, more than 2,800 children and adults with special needs will participate in the project.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a multi-state school tour of a new production of Hansel and Gretel by composer Engelbert Humperdinck. Teaching materials provided to schools will include a tutorial compact disc with vocal and piano parts, a teacher's guide about opera as an art form, and activities for integration of the opera into academic subjects.

Ten Chimneys Foundation, Inc.
Genesee Depot, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program. Up to 10 renowned American actors, nominated by and representing ten of the nation's premier regional theaters, will join actress Olympia Dukakis for a week-long master class and immersion experience at Ten Chimneys.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture)
Madison, WI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Wisconsin Public Folk Arts & Folklife Showcase, a project by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture. Online exhibits and interactive tours will feature the folk arts of Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a commissioning and performance project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pro Arte Quartet. Founded in 1912 in Brussels, the Belgian string ensemble was performing on a U.S. concert tour when Europe broke out in World War ; the musicians remained permanently in the U.S. by accepting a residency at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1940.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$839,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Woodland Pattern, Inc. (aka Woodland Pattern Book Center)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of programs aimed at working class, racially mixed, and multigenerational community members. The center will offer readings, master classes, presentations by small presses, writing residencies for seniors, and book art exhibitions.


Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $1,124,300

 
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