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Fiscal Year: 2025

  • A side view of a naturally patinaed copper bowl, resting among green cedar branches in the bright sunshine.

    Martha Buche

    Martha Buche is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A man with long black hair pulled into a low ponytail aiming a bow and arrow.

    Jeremy Red Eagle

    Jeremy Red Eagle is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation...

  • A tan teapot woven out of Korean paper (called hanji) using jiseung (paper basketry) techniques in the shape of a duck with a lid on the back shaped like a duckling, both with reddish pink beaks.

    Aimee Lee

    Aimee Lee is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A painting of a small town with several buildings and people dining and playing sports, with written text reading, “When we were young, Lintonville became Regal-named after Mr. Weidner’s new Buick. Buildings stood where now there are none, and new ones built in once-plowed fields. These were days of pancake breakfasts, smelt fries, a baseball championship, and the magical light of a beer sign showing moving sky-blue water and a campfire. Oh, how I wanted to live in that enchanted little tent.”

    Pieper Bloomquist

    Pieper Bloomquist is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A band on stage, consisting of a drummer, traditional drummer, guitarist, flautist, and keyboardist, some of whom wear traditional regalia, with a tipi set up on stage with them.

    Paul Summers

    Paul Summers is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A person with short dark hair and glasses holding two beater sticks, playing the kulintang, an instrument made up of a row of 8 brass gongs suspended on a rope-strung wooden stand.

    Gean Vincent Almendras

    Gean Vincent Almendras is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation...

  • A person with curly dark brown hair sitting at a table with three young children as they use markers to draw colorful shapes on paper, next to another photo of the same person, with shorter hair, smiling for the camera.

    Tamra Jetter

    Tamra Jetter is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A Black man with a light salt & pepper beard wearing a traditional West African black and gold colored Grand Robe. His arms are reaching out to the sides, and he holds a piece of white fabric in his left hand.

    Stafford Berry

    Stafford Berry is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • Ten young children, five boys and five girls, wearing traditional Peruvian dance outfits and fruit necklace. The girls wear an embroidered skirt and a blanket on their back and fauna and boys wear black pants and a blanket on their back.

    Rubén Pachas

    Rubén Pachas is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • A group of dancers and drummers in traditional clothing from around the continent of Africa

    Ko-Thi Dance Company

    Ko-Thi Dance Company’s ArtsHERE grant will support strategic planning, leadership and cultural competency training, community engagement sessions, audience development, and professionally translated materials to increase arts participation and accessibility among Milwaukee’s diverse communities.  Ko-Thi Dance Company preserves, teaches, documents, interprets, and performs dance and music rooted in the cultures of the African Diaspora. Their programming inspires the community to celebrate themselves through African dance and music.

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