2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

WISCONSIN

Folklore Village Farm, Inc.
Dodgeville, WI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 2002 Midwest Folklife Festival. The festival will feature over 60 ethnic and folk artists from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa in concert, demonstration and narrative settings.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Opera in the Park. In celebration of its 40 years of opera production in the city, a free concert of opera favorites with principal singers, chorus and orchestra will be performed in Garner Park on the west side of Madison in July 2002.

Madison Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the High School Residency program. Modeled after the Great Lakes Theater Festival's High School Residency program, high school literature classes will collaborate with actor-teachers on a roster of plays that are linked to Wisconsin curricula.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Creative Educator's Institute, a two-week professional training program for integrating art, design and the visual arts into K-12 curriculum. About 75 teachers will follow a one-week studio course in a combination of traditional media and emerging technologies with a second week focused on specific classroom issues and techniques.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$9,200
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission, production and multistate school tour of a new children's operatic adaptation of Dvorak's Rusalka. Approximately 215 in-school performances will take place throughout rural Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa during 2002-03.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
Sheboygan, WI
$60,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary

To support Connecting Communities. This series of five community-based residencies will facilitate collaborations between visual and performing artists and the Hmong and Hispanic communities, youth at-risk, industrial employees and elderly audiences from Sheboygan County.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
(on behalf of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures)
Madison, WI
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a public folklorist position and other related expenses. The folklorist will assist in identifying and increasing access to past regional public folklore documentation; convene a gathering to develop access guidelines; plan and support collections-based programs; and create a structure for the archiving, conservation and accessibility of future folk arts documentation.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$589,700
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Total Dollars Awarded: $748,900
Total Grants Awarded: 8

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