Recent Awards for Public Art - New Work

2017

• Welford Sanders Statue

MLK Economic Development Corp.
$2,500
Artist: TBD

• "Flowers in Bloom" Mural

Garden District Neighborhood Association
$3,000
Artists:  Chacho Lopez and the Walker's Point Creative Collective

• Historic Garfield Campus public art

CUPED Corp.
$4,000
Artists: TBD

• Beerline Trail Neighbor-Centric Park Design

Greater Milwaukee Committee
$6,000
Artist:  Hood Design Studio

• Silver City Placemaking

Layton Boulevard West Neighbors
$2,500
Artists: TBD

• "Splash" interactive commnity-based collaborative artmaking

Jazale's Art Studio
$3,500
Artist:  Mikal Floyd Pruitt

 

• Arts on Wisconsin Avenue: Utility Box Murals

Milwaukee Downtown Association
$2,500
Artist: Maricio Ramirez

• Welcome to 5PNS'S Heritage of Art

$3,500
Five Points Neighborhood Association
Artist: TBD

 

2016

• The Gift mural

Wisconsin Black Historical Society
Artist:  George Gist
$5,250 (includes $5,000 in Conservation Funds for repair of the wall surface)

• Black Cat Alley

East Side BID
Artists:  Stacy Williams-NG and Tim Decker
$3,750

• Happiness Project: Under Construction

Marquette University Haggerty Museum of Art
Artist: Kirsten Leenaars
$11,000

• Milwaukee Road Monument (early stage planning)

Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail
Project Manager: Melissa Dorn Richards
$7,500

2015

• Streetlights

Riverworks Development Corp.
Artist:  Tyanna Buie
$7,000

• Temporary Resurfacing (installation summer 2016)

Walker's Point Center for the Arts
Artists:  Demitra Copoulous, Marla Sanvick and Maeve Jackson
$2,500

2014

• Watermarks: City as Living Laboratory - Phase One

Milwaukee RiverWalk District
Artist:  Mary Miss
$15,000

2013

• Listening to Mitchell

Historic Mitchell Street Preservation Corp.
Artists:  Sonja Thomsen, Adam Carr
$15,000

• Topos and Fourteen Simultaneous Elements

East Branch Milwaukee Public Library (interior art)
Artists:  kathryn martin and Santiago Cucullu
$17,500

• The Milwaukee Commandos and We Demand Fair Housing (mural art)

Milwaukee School of Engineering
Artists:  Nicolas Lampert, Paul Kjelland
$4,000

2012

• Wiki Public Art

Project Geocoding
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
$3,000

2011

• Art stop Transit Shelter

KK Business Improvement District #44
Architect: Roman Montoto
$15,000