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Create Wisconsin Statewide Artists Grant

The support creative Wisconsinites need.

With the support and partnership of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts, the Create Wisconsin Statewide Artist Grant Program provides opportunities to support the work of creative individuals and communities across the state.

We recognize the critical importance the arts have to Wisconsin’s communities and culture. This grant seeks to bolster that community vibrance by directly supporting individual vision and creativity.

First Cycle Recipients

Cassandra Xiong

Three different workshops in the series “If You Can Imagine It, It’s Possible.”
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John Romero Nance Jr.

A Fruit to a Seed is a multimedia documentary project documenting Black Milwaukee through its historic buildings and the elders who remember them.
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Lo Villarreal-Black

To continue the work of highlighting a community that is underrepresented in the arts through BBIPOC productions.
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Elisabeth Roskopf

An evening-length performance that foregrounds the choreographic research and personal narratives of the collaborating dance artists and myself that explores this question: “How do we (re)claim space for ourselves between our cultures?”
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Eliza Skenandore

The dimensional possibilities of raised beadwork while honoring its structural lineage as a living tradition.
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Nate Sheppard

A series of fully immersive performing arts experiences that incorporates cinematic film, live music, poetry and storytelling, dynamic lighting, surround sound, and projection mapping.
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Neo Medina

Paint the City is a two-week, youth-centered community mural initiative in Appleton, Wisconsin that advances youth empowerment, placemaking, and community engagement through large-scale public art.
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Jason Love

The production of three short documentary films highlighting local creative individuals in Wisconsin, with a focus on artists, makers, and cultural leaders who contribute to the vitality of their communities.
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Beau Lasiewicz

The freedom to advance in my personal technique by purchasing different lumber species, materials and upgrading tools.
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Rebecca Kautz

Research on surrealism, illness, and psychology of trauma that will be informed by experiencing artworks by women surrealists.
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Kara Hakanson

A play that follows 20+ years of their life pursuing a career in acting. All the highs, all the lows, and every twist and turn in between.
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Lucy Grignon (Pitāēpanuhkiw)

Storytelling Community Cookbook & Community Workshops
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Leslie Damaso

The SYNOMONES album where each song will be a rich expression of a personal connection and an effort to heal by reaching out to the world.
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Victoria Gokee

A series of leather-based community workshops, with an emphasis on education to hone these skills in other artisans.
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Laura Annis

To establish themselves and their studio work so that their practice has the longevity needed to financially sustain them.
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Vee Adams

An exploration of Afro-futurist themes through painting, animation and paper stop-animation studies.
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