Sixth Cycle of Fellowship Program for Visual Artists Announced
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and Visual Arts Milwaukee! (VAM!), announces the sixth cycle of a fellowship program for visual artists. The program, funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, will provide unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. Under the terms of the program, seven fellowships will be awarded in 2008: three for established artists ($15,000 each) and four for emerging artists ($5,000 each). The program is open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties).Applications and guidelines for the sixth cycle of the fellowship program will be available beginning Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Completed applications are due no later than Thursday, October 2, 2008. To receive application materials and complete eligibility requirements, please contact Polly Morris at (414) 229-6771 or by e-mail at . Applications will also be available on the web at http://arts.uwm.edu/nohl. Awards will be announced on Monday, November 10, 2008.
Two workshops will be offered to help prospective applicants better understand the application process. Polly Morris of the UWM Peck School of the Arts, who administers the fellowship program, will be joined by current and past Nohl Fellows at these informal sessions. The workshops are free and open to the public; applications will be available at each session.
* Wednesday, September 3, 6-7 pm at Jazz Gallery, a Riverwest Community Art Center, 926 East Center Street (a new gallery in the Riverwest neighborhood). This session is co-sponsored by MARN (the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network) and the Riverwest Artist Association.
* Saturday, September 6, 1-2:15 pm at Walker's Point Center for the Arts, 911 West National Avenue in Milwaukee. This session is co-sponsored by WPCA (and consider returning at 6 pm for their Beer Tasting & Pig Roast fundraiser).
Artist Mary L. Nohl of Fox Point, Wisconsin, died in December 2001 at the age of 87. Her $9.6 million bequest to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation is the largest gift the Foundation has received from a single donor in its 90-year history. The Fund, by supporting local visual arts and arts education programs, keeps Nohl’s passion for the visual arts alive in the community.
Nohl Fellows will be selected by a panel of recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area: Valerie J. Mercer, the first curator of African American art and head of the General Motors Center for African American Art at The Detroit Institute of Arts; Laurel Reuter, director and chief curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art; and Eva González-Sancho, director of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain - Région Bourgogne/ /(FRAC Bourgogne) in Dijon, France. In addition to receiving an award, Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition in the autumn of 2009. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally.
A reception honoring the seven fellows selected in the 2007 cycle of the competition—Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen and Daniel Ollman (Established Artists) and Annie Killelea, Faythe Levine, Colin Matthes and Kevin J.
Miyazaki(Emerging Artists)—will be held in conjunction with the opening of the Fellowship Exhibition on Friday, October 10, 2008. The opening of the exhibition at Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., begins at 6
pm and is free and open to the public.
The Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship program also includes a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area. The sixth cycle of the Suitcase Export Fund will open on December 2, 2008, when applications and guidelines will become available.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is made up of charitable funds, each created by individual donors or families to serve the charitable causes of their choice. Grants from these funds serve people throughout Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties and beyond. Started in 1915, the Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. and abroad.
Visual Arts Milwaukee (VAM!) links local visual arts organizations to increase the quality of local artistic presentation and production as well as to bring greater local, national and international attention to Milwaukee’s institutions and artists. The Mary L. Nohl Fund Individual Artist Fellowships and Suitcase Export Fund are the major projects of VAM!.