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Girls Rock Milwaukee, Quasimondo Physical Theatre and Signature Dance Company are first time recipients of funding from the City of Milwaukee Arts Board. They are among 35 nonprofit arts organizations awarded funding recently by the City of Milwaukee Arts Board.
At its May meeting the MAB considered the recommendations of a seven-member citizen review panel and approved $227,500 in grants ranging from $3,500 to $7,000 each. MAB grants require a dollar-for-dollar cash match from other sources, and the combined budgets of the 35 selected projects this year is more than $2.6 million. There were a total of 45 eligible requests from city-based arts organizations to fund art, music, dance, arts education and other projects.
“The Milwaukee arts community continues to reach into more neighborhoods throughout the city,” said Ald. Michael Murphy, Milwaukee Arts Board Chair. “We’re pleased to be able to support their efforts.”
This year marks the 28th annual grant awards. Since 1991, the Milwaukee Arts Board has awarded more than $5.2 million to 130 different organizations.
Grantees were honored by former Mayor Tom Barrett, Ald. Murphy and others at a 4:30 p.m. reception June 11 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts followed by an awards program and celebration at 5 p.m. The event was free and open to the public.
The Milwaukee Arts Board grant program is funded by the City of Milwaukee with additional support from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. The MAB also awards matching funds for New Works of Public Art and Conservation of Public Art.
$7,000
Artists Working in Education, Inc.
SmART Tool-Kit
Danceworks, Inc.
Danceworks Generations
Early Music Now
Mystical Arts of Tibet
Express Yourself Milwaukee
Youth Band With a Monthly Guest Artist Inspiration
First Stage
Locomotion
Florentine Opera
Opera in the Schools - The Three Little Pigs
$3,500
Girls Rock Milwaukee
Girls Rock Milwaukee - 2018 Camp Sessions
Historic Milwaukee, Inc.
Doors Open Milwaukee
In Tandem Theatre
An Evening With Carl Sandburg by Jonathan Daly
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Vedem: The Underground Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto
Marquette University
Milwaukee Art Museum
Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
MARNsalons
Milwaukee Ballet
Ballet Beat
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Taking a Risk: Civil War/Civil Discourse Project
Milwaukee Film
Cream City Cinema
Milwaukee Public Theatre
Bembe Afro-Latino Performing Arts Program
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra
Progressions
Milwaukee Youth Theatre
The Hundred Dresses
Next Act Theatre
Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau
Optimist Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park - King Lear
PianoArts of Wisconsin
WaterWorks
Quasimondo Physical Theatre
Celsius 232
Radio Milwaukee, Inc.
Band Together From all Corners of Milwaukee
Renaissance Theaterworks
Fran Bauer Young Critics Project
Ruach, Inc.
Ruach Brundibar Performances and Outreach
Signature Dance Company
Summer Arts Intensive
Skylight Music Theatre
Carmina Burana
String Academy of Wisconsin
Urban Students in Arts Outreach Program
TBEY Arts Center, Inc.
10th Annual "A Journey Through Dance"
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
2018 Summer Youth Arts Camp & Youth Art Exhibit
Wild Space Inc.
Making/Unmaking
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
We Six Residencies in Milwaukee Schools
Woodland Pattern
Unwriting Borders: Latinx Voices in The U.S.