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Fiscal Year: 2025

  • 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.

  • Three people of dark skin tone on stage with African drums.

    Kori Art

    Kori Art’s ArtsHERE grant will support staff development, leadership training, stakeholder and community engagement activities, and translation services to ensure inclusivity and accessibility for individuals with limited English proficiency.  Kori Art is a culture and art-based organization that amplifies community togetherness via international arts performances, training, workshops, and festivals led by New Americans and immigrant artists to connect, preserve, and share their cultural heritage.

  • A person with dark skin and deadlocks transfers hand carved stamps on to clay.

    ArtMix

    ArtMix's ArtsHERE grant will support strategic planning as they continue their growth and expansion. It will also support ASL and Spanish language training for staff as demand for their programs continues to grow. ArtMix transforms the lives of people with disabilities through the creation of art. They serve more than 7,000 people of varying abilities through instructional art classes, arts-based workforce development, artist residencies and opportunities to sell, display, view, and purchase artwork

  • A group of children show off their drawings in a colorful space.

    Azubuike Arts

    Azubuike African American Council’s ArtsHERE grant will help bridge the gap in arts and cultural engagement in the Quad Cities through strategic planning, cultural competency training, and marketing to underserved youth of color.  Azubuike provides inspirational and educational opportunities through the arts, aiming to reconcile the racial divides that exist in their community by giving underserved youth a voice to express themselves

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