Mary L. Nohl Fund Individual Artist Programs

The application for the 2025 Nohl Fellowship cycle is now closed. If you would like to receive reminders and information about the Fellowship, please sign up for our mailing list here. Click here for more information on the program.

The Suitcase Export Fund is now open. To view the guidelines and application instructions, click here.

The 2023 cycle of the Ruth Arts Mary L Nohl Alumni Award is now closed. To learn more about the program, click here.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists is a central pillar of Lynden’s support for artists. The program is funded by the foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, which was created when artist Mary L. Nohl of Fox Point, Wisconsin, died in December 2001 at the age of 87, leaving a bequest of $9.6 million to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Her fund supports local visual arts and education programs, keeping her passion for the visual arts alive in the community.

The program has two components. The fellowship program provides unrestricted funds for Established and Emerging artists to create new work or complete work in progress. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Suitcase Export Fund for Visual Art was created to help artists with the cost of exhibiting their work outside the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington). Both programs are open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area. One hundred and twenty-six fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2003, and 414 individual artists and 26 artist collectives have received Suitcase Awards.

From 2022-2024, with the addition of support from Joy Engine, the Nohl Fellowship became one of the most generous regional fellowships for individual artists. This support enabled us to make significant changes to the program: increasing the size of awards for both the Nohl Fellowship and the Suitcase Export Fund; adding studio visits for the Emerging finalists during the jurying process; formalizing some of the professional development opportunities that come with the fellowship; and extending the fellowship period to provide artists with more time to develop their work.

The Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award, launched in 2023, offers a new layer of support for former Nohl Fellows. It does this in two ways: by providing unrestricted funds to the selected artists and by working alongside artists to develop a network of career-sustaining opportunities to respond to their needs. In 2023, it was awarded to four artists: three living in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha) and one currently living outside this area.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is Wisconsin’s largest community foundation and was among the first established in the world. For more than a century, the Foundation has been at the heart of the civic community, helping donors achieve the greatest philanthropic impact, elevating the work of changemakers across neighborhoods, and bringing people and organizations together to help our region thrive. Racial equity is the Foundation’s North Star, guiding its investments and strategies for social and economic change. Leveraging generations of community knowledge, cross-sector partnerships and more than $1 billion in financial assets, the Foundation is committed to reimagining philanthropy, recentering communities and remaking systems to transform our region into a Milwaukee for all.

The goal of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts is to explore new possibilities for arts philanthropy through an artist-driven approach. Responding to the evolving needs of our community and working across a wide spectrum of lived experiences, we aim to support those that center the unconventional and the exciting.

Lynden works with artists, educators, students, and communities to create, support, and share experiences at the intersection of art, nature, and culture. We operate as a laboratory, continually re-imagining Lynden's landscape, collection, and place in the community through exhibitions, performances, residencies, and hands-on education programs. We develop programs in collaboration with those we serve, focusing on place-based K-12 education; CALL & RESPONSE, an artist-driven initiative that celebrates the radical Black imagination as a means to re-examine the past and imagine a better future; and HOME, a space of leading, coming together, and celebrating refugees through art, food, and performance. Artists are at the center of everything we do. The Nohl Fellowship, the Suitcase Export Fund, and the Ruth Arts Mary L Nohl Alumni Award are three key programs that support artists. The staff of the Lynden does not participate in any part of the selection process for the Nohl Fellowship.

For further information:

Polly Morris
Lynden Sculpture Garden
2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. Milwaukee, WI 53217
(414) 446-8794
pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org

Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists

Five Artists Share $140,000 in 2024 Cycle

Five recipients of the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists have been selected from a field of 147 applicants in the twenty-first annual competition. Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) and Roy F. Staab were chosen in the Established Artist category and will each receive a $35,000 fellowship. Justin Goodrum, Jovanny Hernandez Caballero, and Nicholas Perry will receive Emerging Artist fellowships of $15,000. Each artist will also receive a $5,000 professional development/production budget. All the 2024 fellows are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows participate in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art in the summer of 2025 and receive professional development services and studio visits. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally.

The finalists in the Established Artist category are Mike Gibisser, Mariah Tate Klemens, Kim Miller, and Kyle Seis.

The finalists in the Emerging artist category are Amal Azzam, Asher Imtiaz, and Matthew Vivirito.

Headshots, images of the artists’ work, and image credits available at:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/y4drer0g0exa9523m5aax/h?rlkey=sw2l7vvetokackawjhoa9w235

The panel of jurors included Allison Glenn, independent curator and writer, New York, New York; Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; and Anisa Olufemi, independent curator and Fellowship Manager, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC. We were delighted to bring the jurors to Milwaukee for a public talk and studio visits with all twelve finalists.

More information on the jurors available at: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/content/nohl-jurors

Funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund and Joy Engine, and administered by the Lynden, the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists provide unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. The program is open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties). The Nohl Fellowship is part of a constellation of artist-supporting programs administered by Lynden that includes the Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award and a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area.

Artist Mary L. Nohl of Fox Point, Wisconsin, died in December 2001 at the age of 87. She left a $9.6 million bequest to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Her fund supports local visual arts and education programs, keeping her passion for the visual arts alive in the community.

About the Fellows

Established Artists

NINA GHANBARZADEH (AFKHAMIAN)

Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) is a visual artist whose work is informed by the geometric and biomorphic patterns, colors, and textures of her Persian cultural traditions. Taking visual cues from the shapes and lines of written language, she uses a wide range of mediums and tools to create works that extend the urgent contemporary dialogue around why some cultures’ traditions are accepted while others are dismissed.

Ghanbarzadeh emigrated from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She earned her BFA in painting, drawing and graphic design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013 and completed a two-year Artist in Residence Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015. She is the recipient of the Student Silver ADDY, Fredric R. Layton Foundations Scholarship, and winner of Best in Show at the 2020 Wisconsin Biennial. In 2019, she launched ARTkee Educational Toys, a company which produces SOFTwords, kits of basic shapes that allow children to explore the shapes as images as well as text. Nina draws inspiration for her educational toy business and her art from cultural differences and the limitations of language. Photo credit: Erin Bloodgood
https://www.ninaghanbarzadeh.com

ROY F. STAAB

Roy F. Staab is an established artist, sculptor, and “drawer-in-space” who works in nature to create geometric forms. Born in Milwaukee, he studied at the Layton School of Art, the Milwaukee Institute of Technology, and received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Originally influenced by abstract expressionism, he left Milwaukee for Europe, where he continued to study art on his own, eventually landing in Paris. There, he experimented with painting and drawing techniques. Relocating to New York City in 1980 and building upon his graphic research, Roy turned to nature, using natural materials to “draw” his outdoor installations. Suddenly, his art embraced the largeness of nature by responding to specific sites. Land art brought him to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and back to Europe to make art in private spaces and public symposiums. Based in Milwaukee, he makes art in his backyard in West Allis, in fallow fields, and in public spaces both here and abroad. A recipient of many prestigious awards and honors, Staab lectures and curates, but most of all he enjoys the challenge of creating land art installations.
http://roystaab.blogspot.com/

Emerging Artists

JUSTIN GOODRUM

Justin Goodrum is a director, producer, and writer. He worked with NBCLX to direct and produce a short documentary on mental health disparities in Milwaukee’s Black community. His company, Good Entertainment, was honored to be chosen to present at the 2021 Culture, Heath, and Wellbeing International conference in the United Kingdom. Justin was a participant in Firelight Media’s 2021 Groundwork Lab with his film, The Stigma of the Durag. The film explores his personal experience of being labeled a gang member at a predominantly white college for wearing a durag. The Stigma of the Durag premiered at the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival where it won Honorable Mention. The film aired on Milwaukee PBS Black Nouveau in 2023. For the last three years, Justin has been producing One Minute Remaining, an independent feature length documentary exposing the social and economic burden of incarceration on women. Currently in post-production, the film will be released in 2024. Justin is currently in pre-production for his first feature film, which tackles mental health disparities in the Black community through a familiar and entertaining genre. This project won Brico Forward Fund awards, Milwaukee’s largest independent film grant, in 2022 and 2023. Goodrum is also a participant in Milwaukee Film’s 2023 Focus Finder filmmaking accelerator program.
https://justingoodrum.com/

JOVANNY HERNANDEZ CABALLERO

Jovanny Hernandez Caballero is a community artist and photographer based in Milwaukee. He is a first-generation American and descendant of Mixtecs, an Indigenous people based in present-day Mexico. His work centers around themes of cultural heritage and identity. Through his photography, Jovanny documents the beauty of Milwaukee's South Side and his family's native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He seeks to showcase the richness and diversity of his community, celebrating its people, culture, and traditions. His work has been recognized and showcased in various venues, including "Creating Milwaukee," a mini-documentary series produced by Nō Studios that highlights Milwaukee creatives across various disciplines. He received the gener8tor Art X Sherman Phoenix grant, was an Artist in Residence at Arts@Large and is currently at Mitchell Street Arts. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2023. Photo credit: John Romero Nance
https://www.jovannyhernandezart.com/

NICHOLAS PERRY

Nicholas Perry is a painter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2018. Nicholas makes figurative paintings that draw on art-historical influences, personal photography, and other visual languages. These different forms of imagery are reinterpreted during the process of painting to create individuals in solitary spaces. For him, painting offers a place to propose questions about representation within abstract compositions. His work explores the history of painting, and particularly portraiture: how a portrait reveals the characteristics of a person through formal and fictional narratives within the alcove of the frame. Nicholas uses portraiture to investigate ideas such as sincerity, obsession, isolation, and anxiety. His work has been published in New American Paintings Midwest Edition (issues 137 and 149) and was selected for the 2018 Wisconsin Artist Biennial at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. In 2019 he had a solo exhibition at The Alice Wilds titled By Themselves. Photo credit: Daniel McCullough
http://nsperry.com/

Past Fellows

2023

Established
Mikal Floyd-Pruitt
Janelle VanderKelen
Emerging
Siara Berry
Fatima Laster
Alayna N. Pernell

2022

Established
Valaria Tatera
Jason S. Yi
Emerging
John W. Balsley
Inna Dmitrieva
Molly Hassler

2020

Established
Ck Ledesma
Nirmal Raja
Emerging
Janelle Gramling
Rosy Petri
Leah Schretenthaler

2019

Established
Cecelia Condit
Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma
Emerging
Vaughan Larsen
LaNia Sproles
Natasha Woods

2018

Established
Chris Cornelius
Keith Nelson
Emerging
Nazlı Dinçel
Makeal Flammini
Rosemary Ollison

2017

Established
Tom Berenz
Lois Bielefeld
Emerging
Sara Caron
Sky Hopina
Ariana Vaeth

2016

Established
Jesse McClean
Joseph Mougel
Emerging
Rose Curley
Robin Jebavy
Brook Thiele

2015

Established
Jon Horvath
Frankie Latina
Emerging
Ben Balcom
Zach Hill
Maggie Sasso

2014

Established
Anne Kingsbury
Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg
John Riepenhoff
Emerging
Emily Belknap
Jenna Knapp
Erik Ljung
Kyle Seis

2013

Established
Ray Chi
Sheila Held
Special Entertainment (Andrew Swant & Bobby Ciraldo)
Emerging
Cris Siqueira
Tim Stoelting
Eddie Villanueva
Josh Weissbach

2012

Established
Danielle Beverly
Faythe Levine
Colin Matthes
Emerging
Lois Bielefeld
Tyanna J. Buie
Brad Fiore
Brad Kjelland

2011

Established
Nicholas Lampert
Brad Lichtenstein
Sonja Thomsen
Emerging
American Fantasy Classics
Richard Galling
Hans Gindlesberger
Sarah Luther

2010

Established
Brent Coughenour
Paul Druecke
Waldek Dynerman
Emerging
Sarah Buccheri
Neil Gravander
Ashley Morgan
Chris Thompson

2009

Established
Peter Barrickman
Harvey Opgenorth
Emerging
Kim Miller
John Riepenhoff

2008

Established
Brent Budsberg & Shana McCaw
Xav Leplae
Iverson White
Emerging
Tate Bunker
Bobby Ciraldo & Andrew Swant (Special Entertainment)
Frankie Latina
Barbara Miner

2007

Established
Gary John Gresl
Mark Klassen
Dan Ollman
Emerging
Annie Killelea
Faythe Levine
Colin Matthes
Kevin J. Miyazaki

2006

Established
Santiago Cucullu
Scott Reeder
Chris Smith
Emerging
donebestdone
Dan Klopp
Christopher Niver
Marc Tasman

2005

Established
Nicolas Lampert
Fred Stonehouse
Jason S. Yi
Emerging
Juan Juarez
Michael K. Julian
Mat Rappaport
Steve Wetzel

2004

Established
Terese Agnew
Cecelia Condit
Jennifer Montgomery
Emerging
William Andersen
James Barany
Steven Burnham
Frankie Martin

2003

Established
Dick Blau
Michael Howard
Mark Mulhern
Emerging
Paul Amitai
Peter Barrickman
Mark Escribano
Liz Smith

For information on past recipients, click here.

Suitcase Pictures

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Opportunities & Resources

This page will be used to post opportunities and resources of interest to visual artists: grants, requests for qualifications, professional development., emergency resources. If you have an opportunity or resource that you think might be appropriate, info@lyndensculpturegarden.org.

https://bombmagazine.org/discover/fellowships-residencies/

Artist Emergency Resources

https://cerfplus.org/cerf-covid-19-relief-grant/

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/complete-guide-to-2021-artist-grants...

https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com/

https://cerfplus.org/get-ready/studio-protector/

http://www.artistscharitablefund.org/index.html

http://www.artistsfellowship.com/financial.html

https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants

https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Emergency%20Grants

https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Rauschenberg-Emergency-Grants

https://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/emergencyfunds/

https://www.backher.com/toolbox/emergency-need-based-resources

http://www.artistcommunities.org/emergency-relief-programs

http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/emergency

https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/emergency-grant/

https://artistrelieftree.com

https://www.imaginemke.org/mke-artist-relief-fund/apply-to-receive-suppo...

https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/ In-person registration can be done on the day of the election, but most municipalities are urging as many as can to vote absentee by mail. Absentee ballots can be requested online until April 2, or in-person until April 5 and must be postmarked or submitted in person by April 7 at the latest.)


COVID-19 Artist Resources Updates:
These are emails sent to Lynden's artist e-list, which shares information on the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund for Individual Artists Fellowship program (including the Suitcase Export Fund) and on other resources for artists. We are continuing to gather and share resources related to COVID-19. To sign up for this e-list, email staff@lyndensculpturegarden.org.


Friday April 24, 2020
Financial Resources (and information about them)
As we enter the second round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL), several organizations are offering assistance through webinars and office hours. (Check out Americans for the Arts Action Fund’s daily office hours with Executive Director Nina Ozlu Tunceli. Some federal programs are open to individuals as well organizations, for the under-banked as well as the well banked, but the funds are expended quickly. Be sure to stay tuned to the information provided by Americans for the Arts, Arts Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Arts Board, as well as to organizations serving your particular field. The Americans for the Arts Action Fund has done a particularly good job of sorting out the differences among the various federal programs.

The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities (and its local arm, the Wisconsin Humanities Council) are offering relief under the CARES Act.

The Sundance Institute will be disbursing some film-specific Artist Relief funds. More about Sundance’s funding programs here: https://www.sundance.org/covid19

The Authors League Fund offers forgivable emergency loans, as they have been since 1917, here: https://authorsleaguefund.org/

Filmmaker Ava Duvernay has launched a $250,000 funding initiative called ARRAY Grants that will provide vital financial support to grassroots entities that serve as cultural catalysts for narrative change. The mission is to help fund organizations and individuals that center people of color and women of all kinds. This is a by-nomination-only process.

Other Resources
Creative Capital has launched a series of free online workshops, Coping with COVID, designed to help artists mitigate the effects of the pandemic and the economic situation, “and above all to show that none of us are alone in this struggle.” Link and more info here: https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/

Surveys
There are a few days left to help the UWM Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management and their UW-System colleagues better understand the COVID-19 effect on the nonprofit sector all across Wisconsin. Complete this 10-minute survey here: https://bit.ly/3a9jcU7. Deadline is April 26.

Americans for the Arts will also be offering a webinar in the next week or so on the impact of COVID-19 on arts organizations and artists, using the data they’ve collected through their two surveys.

Local Artists during the Pandemic
Send us a project you’d like to share.

Since March 26, Paul Druecke has been picking up other people’s trash during daily walks (an acceptably socially-distanced pursuit), arranging each day’s haul into impromptu still lifes, and then gathering up the garbage and disposing of it. His new project, America Pastime, is documented here: http://www.pauldruecke.com/america-pastime-2


Friday, April 17, 2020
Financial Resources (and information about them)
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network has opened the MARN COVID-19 RELIEF FUND to assist their members in this time of need. All artists who are active MARN members are encouraged to apply for this one-time, unrestricted $250 micro-grant: https://www.artsinmilwaukee.org/about/covid19.php

Don’t forget to fill out the Americans for the Arts COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers. AFTA is a research partner in the Artist Relief fund, and has been asked to develop and deploy the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, which is designed to capture financial and creative impact of COVID-19 on creative workers, highlight the resiliency and generosity of the creative sector, and make sure that the 5 million creative workers in the U.S. are supported and heard during this ongoing crisis and the eventual recovery.

Creative Capital has announced the opening of the Arts Writers Grant Program application (deadline May 20). The Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000, these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. More information and application here: https://www.artswriters.org/?mc_cid=40c9c5c40e&mc_eid=c03483beb8

Other Resources
Art World Conference, which focuses on business and financial health for artists and arts professionals, is offering free online workshops on how to “navigate the now.” The next one, on April 21, is about taxes. More information and free registration here: https://www.artworldconference.com/events

Artnet has compiled a primer on how to apply for benefits for artists and freelancers: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/unemployment-benefits-for-artists-freelancers-coronavirus-1832913

5 Points Art Gallery continues to host weekly virtual chats with local artists. Discover how others are surviving the pandemic by keeping an eye on the 5 Points events calendar
https://www.5ptsartgallery.com/events?view=calendar&month=04-2020

One artist has a piece of advice for those struggling with car payments: she simply called Toyota’s helpline and got a human (working from home) who could easily move the next 2 months’ payments to the end of her loan, with no extra charges (this was for a 0% loan, so there may be charges if you have a regular loan).


Monday, April 13, 2020
Financial Resources (and information about them)
Art in America is hosting a virtual panel on the Artist Relief fund with Deana Haggag, Sarah Arison, and Marisa Morán Jahn on Monday, April 13, 2020, at 12 noon CST: https://artinamericamagazine.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1194d22149cae6b833e60041&id=259831ba5e&e=5a90cd9ad6

Other Resources
Vallejo Gantner of the Onassis Foundation has started hireartists, a new, web-based marketplace designed to “facilitate creative exchange during an unprecedented economic crisis for the already-precarious arts and creative sector at large.” Sign up here: https://hireartists.org/ and get some background here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hireartists-1830399

Biz Starts is compiling resources and offering their own coaching and mentoring programs here: https://bizstarts.com/covid-19-resources/

Della Wells shares this article for those who are looking to the past to figure out the future for artists in a post-pandemic world: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/coronavirus-recession-wpa-arts-programs-wellness-style/index.html


Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Financial Resources
The big news today is that several large, national arts grantmakers have come together to form Artist Relief to distribute immediate, unrestricted emergency funding to individual artists of all disciplines, as well as resources to help those in need due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Grants will be $5000 each. More info and application here:
https://www.artistrelief.org/

Once again, take a very close look at the CARES Act. This is the legislation is designed to help organizations (with less than 500 employees), independent contractors, and individuals. It even includes a tax deduction for charitable giving for non-itemizers. A good place to start: https://www.artswisconsin.org/actioncenter/cares-act/

If a webinar will help: Artists Rights Society is offering live web assistance for economic relief through a Zoom meeting today, April 8, at 2 pm CST. You can join this meeting (which will be recorded) here: https://nav.zoom.us/j/532480508

NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) is partnering with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to provide one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical emergencies. More info here: https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Rauschenberg-Emergency-Grants

Other Resources
5 Points Art Gallery & Studios is offering a series of virtual artist chats. Tomorrow, April 9, at 6:30 pm CST you can hear from The "Sage Women" of 5 Points Art Gallery, including, but not limited to: Della Wells, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Rhonda Gatlin-Hayes, and Ruthie Joy. Join the chat here: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/930127093

Fellowship.art is organizing an emergency response program of virtual programs. More details here: https://fellowship.art/emergency-response

Note that Creative Capital, a participant in Art Relief, continues to collect resources and offer free online workshops for artists.

Other Opportunities
The Bagri Foundation has launched At Home in the World, an open call for five £1,000 commissions for Asian artists to be released across the Foundation's digital platforms from June 2020.

The application for Pollock-Krasner grants is open at
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Pollock-Krasner grants have enabled artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal and medical expenses.

Here’s information on how to participate in Keep Making Art, another virtual art-sharing initiative: https://creative-generation.org/keepmakingart

Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board are continuing to host listening sessions each Friday at 9 am as the COVID-19 crisis continues, to help creative leaders share perspectives on the impact of the pandemic on work and life, and brainstorm recommendations on actions to take locally and globally. Click here for more info.

Friday, April 3, 2020
We will continue to post links to relief funds and other opportunities when we get them. We try to identify funds that might support local artists, but it’s not always easy to tell. We also know that waiting lists for relief are long, and that one has to be on the lookout for scams. If you have any success in securing funding or have figured out a way to streamline your application process when applying for several funds/grants, let us know and we’ll share the news. Again, apologies for duplicates.

Financial Resources
There is a sense that some of the larger visual arts funders may be moving toward more emergency support for visual artists. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is beginning to funnel emergency grant money through its regranting initiatives. Here’s an example from The Luminary in St. Louis: http://theluminaryarts.com/programs/futures-fund
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has just announced that it will commit $5 million to crisis relief through three initiatives. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more.

Take a very close look at the CARES Act. This is the legislation is designed to help organizations (with less than 500 employees), independent contractors, and individuals. It even includes a tax deduction for charitable giving for non-itemizers. A good place to start: https://www.artswisconsin.org/actioncenter/cares-act/

The Kinkade Foundation is offering emergency grants to curators: http://www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org/emergencygrantforcurators

A paid opportunity to perform on a digital network that highlights the ambiguity of the plural noun “creatives” (it set Della Wells to thinking that there might be a way to get non-performing artists involved):
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/our-house-tv-artists-coronavirus-976345/

Sustainable Arts Foundation
Awards supporting artists and writers with families (meaning children) with up to $6,000.

The Creator Fund
ConvertKit has established a fund to help creators (another ambiguous term) in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have already received more applications than they can support, but encourage people to continue applying.

The Photographer Fund
Format has put together a $25,000 relief fund designed to help photographers facing financial difficulties during the outbreak.

Art Interrupted Emergency Arts Fund
Twenty Summers has launched an emergency fund for artists and arts organizations suffering from unexpected and unmanageable financial loss as a result of the COVID-19, though this link is more about how to support the fund.

Other Forms of Support
National Coalition for Arts' Preparedness & Emergency Response (NCAPER)
NCAPER ensures that artists, arts/cultural organizations, cultural funders, and arts businesses have the capacity and ability to respond effectively to disasters and emergencies affecting the arts and culture sector by providing information.


Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Financial Resources
Anonymous Was A Woman has launched a program that provides grants of up to $2,500 for women artists over the age of 40, administered in partnership with New York Foundation for the Arts.
https://current.nyfa.org/tagged/announcements

Arts Wisconsin’s latest action alert is full of information on the CARES Act. This is the legislation that covers expanded unemployment and loans to small businesses.

Mutual Support
Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board are continuing to host listening sessions each Friday at 9 am as the COVID-19 crisis continues, to help creative leaders share perspectives on the impact of the pandemic on work and life, and brainstorm recommendations on actions to take locally and globally. Next session: Friday, April 3, 2020, 9 am. Click here for more info.


Friday, March 27, 2020
Financial Resources
We will continue to post links to relief funds when we get to them. We try to identify funds that might support local artists, but it’s not always easy to tell. We also know that waiting lists for relief are long. If you have any success in securing funding or have figured out a way to streamline your application process when applying for several funds/grants, let us know and we’ll share the news. Again, apologies for duplicates.

Here are a few more resources that came to us via Forecast Public Art.

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund // intended to help those pursuing careers as artists or arts administrators whose income has been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This fund is for those who self-identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). If you fit this description and you are in need of short-term, immediate financial assistance, they would like to help. Funds will be disbursed in the amount of US $200 per person, on a first-come-first-served basis. We will be accepting funds indefinitely.

CERF+ Emergency Relief Fund // Artists who have suffered from a recent, career-threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or natural disaster, can apply for funding. CERF+ also has a list of resources centered around the pandemic.

Women Photograph // an initiative that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women* visual journalists.
*We believe that gender is a spectrum. Women Photograph is inclusive of a plurality of femme voices including trans, queer and non-binary people. They are offering emergency grants.

Della Wells forwarded the list from Cultured Magazine and we’ve pulled the new ones for which local artists might be eligible.

Artist & Activist Relief Fund
Small stipends from The Soze Agency, specifically for artists and activists—especially those with children, debt, and medical bills.

COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund for LGBTQI+ BIPOC Folks
This donation-based fund, organized by Amita Swadhin with Treva Ellison, Natalie Havlin, Carrie Hawks, Ren-yo Hwang, and Alisa Zipursky, will disperse funds in a rolling jubilee—allocating money to applicants as donations are raised. For the second round of donations, priority goes to Black, Indigenous, disabled, chronically ill, transgender or non-binary folks, as well as sex workers or those who are not employed full-time, not eligible for paid sick leave, or on the cusp of losing housing.

Disabled Creator and Activist Pandemic Relief
Volunteers are currently collecting information to organize a relief fund in support of disabled creators and activists who’ve lost sales due to COVID-19.

The Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund
The donation-based Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund will assist musicians whose gigs and events were cancelled due to COVID-19. If you’re a musician who can be paid legally in the US, you’re eligible to apply (the fund will not cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement).


Freelancer COVID-19 Emergency Fund

This fund is designed for freelancers affected by COVID-19 and its impact (school closures, client cancellations, medical expenses, inability to pay basic living expenses).

PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund
PEN America will distribute grants between $500-$1,000 to applicants based on acute financial need, especially due to the pandemic. Applicants must be a professional writer (fiction and non-fiction writers, journalists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and translators) and “be able to demonstrate that a small, one-time grant will be meaningful in helping them to address an emergency situation.”


Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Now is a good time to keep an eye on the federal economic stimulus plan that should be passed shortly. It contains provisions that will alter the landscape for those out of work, including independent contractors. Americans for the Arts, Arts Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Arts Board should all have breakdowns for artists when passage is complete. Sign up for their policy updates, and join in the advocacy.

Financial Resources
The Art Newspaper has compiled a list of coronavirus-related financial aid for artists in the United States (and other countries): https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/are-you-a-freelance-worker-or-a-small-company-in-the-arts-here-s-a-global-list-of-financial-aid-available-to-you-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic

The Define American Immigrant Artist Fellowship has extended its deadline to April 5. Wisconsin is on their list of states of interest. More info here: https://www.defineamerican.com/arts

Mutual Sustenance
As we’ve mentioned, many artists are finding ways to share their work. Here’s Love Letters, a collective (but properly distanced) project from Kelly Kirshtner, that people of all ages can participate in: https://www.kellykirshtner.com/love


Monday, March 23, 2020
Mutual Aid
Artists are not only organizing aid for each other, but also for their neighbors. Cosecha Creative Space has partnered with Ayuda Mutua MKE to organize a temporary Goodness Pantry
to support individuals and families in the 53204 and 53215 zip codes. Info on hours and food donations here:
https://www.facebook.com/100482084927977/posts/107144060928446/
If you’d like to make a cash donation, they are on Venmo and Paypal as Cosecha13.

Mutual Sustenance
Although this newsletter focuses on relief and resources for artists, we know that artists continue to make work and to find new ways to disseminate it, and that museums are making every effort to share their collections online. The Wisconsin Arts Board is asking artists to send information about their projects to them to post on their COVID-19 and the arts in Wisconsin webpage (which is full of information). Email your information to George Tzougros: [GTzougros@travelwisconsin.com](mailto:GTzougros@travelwisconsin.com)

PBS has compiled a list of virtual museums and collections that you can tour online, too:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/19-immersive-museum-exhibits-you-can-visit-from-your-couch


Saturday, March 21, 2020
Just a few for Saturday (and we’ll pause tomorrow):

Sixty Inches from Center, a Chicago-based, non-profit, online arts publication and archiving initiative (Milwaukee’s own Rachel Hausmann Schall writes for them) has posted some resources here:
http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/in-case-of-emergency-artist-resources-for-you-for-us/

They are also welcoming pitches for articles/photo essays/reviews from non-Sixty team members, and will provide compensation. Rachel has sent this link to info on how to pitch/submit: http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/write-for-sixty/

We have posted some more links to emergency grants, or databases to search for emergency funding, on our opportunities and resources page.


Friday, March 20, 2020
Here’s the latest:

Artist Relief: Food Banks
Thanks to Erick Ledesma/Cosecha Creative Space, there are two documents (both in Spanish and English) listing food resources. Please call ahead to make sure that sites are open.

MKE Food Pantry-Bancos alimentarios Info

>Map of MKE Food Pantry & Meal Sites | Bancos de comida y comidas calientes

Organizing/Surveys/Letter Writing
COMMON FIELD, a national network of independent arts organizations and organizers, wants to hear from you:
We invite you to share your ideas, needs and questions through this open form around how we might best organize for both you and the broader field in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
They are also aggregating resources for the field here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_GK3wHf5Mt6Lf07j_2ZA0NuAAEd30-fPDXCts_MYEzY/edit#

There are plenty of examples around the country of organizing around the specific needs of visual artists. The nonprofit New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is calling on New York City to provide COVID-19 relief for art galleries, artists, and art workers.

Kristina Rolander is adding more sample letters to local elected officials here:
https://www.kristinarolander.com/letter-to-mayor-of-milwaukee
Help her gather contact information for other officials. She also has links to letter writing campaigns for specific groups, like displaced entertainment workers.

You can also use Arts Wisconsin’s Legislative Action Center:


Thursday, March 19, 2020
Here’s the latest:

Surveys
Don’t forget to fill out the Americans for the Arts COVID-19 IMPACT SURVEY:
https://www.americansforthearts.org

And here’s one calculating loss in the creative sector:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CyQBOZy3SDHn_7KG8xuUnZ-bHlfipl9K...

Artist Relief
If you are in a position to help artists at this time, all of the relief funds are looking for donations.

Artists, join the waiting list for this national artist relief fund (they have already received so many requests that they aren’t accepting new requests until they raise additional funds):
https://artistrelieftree.com

Spreadsheets
There are many, many google sheets out there aggregating info about artists’ needs. Some of them are offering relief. We can’t vet these, but we put them out here for you to consider.

Crowdsourcing funds for artists:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1FBEU0cdAGpScU0JrOlYFm8FrY1Bj...

COVID Mutual Aid:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TteQjjyhmferxIT6kETUhUdC8E_MdRhkesliRjV...

Write to Your Elected Officials
Kristina Rolander is starting a letter-writing campaign to elected officials, and has posted a sample letter here (more to come on this one):
https://www.kristinarolander.com/letter-to-mayor-of-milwaukee
Help her gather contact information for other officials.

Vote
Thanks to responses from careful readers, we are offering updates to the voting information we offered yesterday.
In-person registration can be done on the day of the election, but most municipalities are urging as many as can to vote absentee by mail. Absentee ballots can be requested online at https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/ until April 2, or in-person until April 5 and must be postmarked or submitted in person by April 7 at the latest.

And some reminders:

IMAGINEMKE has opened an artist relief fund for individual artists. Learn more and apply here: https://www.imaginemke.org/mke-artist-relief-fund/apply-to-receive-suppo...

Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board are hosting a series of virtual Arts Listening Sessions to talk about the needs of Wisconsin's arts sector during the COVID-19 crisis. Arts constituents are invited to join any session to share input about the impact of the pandemic and recommendations for action by the Wisconsin Arts Board and Arts Wisconsin.

You can participate on any of these remaining dates:
Thursday, March 19, 7:00 pm
Friday, March 20, 9:00 am

To participate go to http://www.zoom.us/j/4601378823
Enter Meeting ID: 460-137-8823

Thank you to all the artists and others who have forwarded resources. Please keep your suggestions coming, and we will continue to share when we have a critical mass.

Polly


Wednesday, March 18, 2020
We have a few more resources to share today (our apologies if we are repeating ourselves):

We are archiving these newsletters, and providing links to resources, here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/content/opportunities

Young Space in Kaukauna, WI has put together a Google Sheets hub as a resource for socially distanced artists. You can share “current virtual exhibition spaces, open calls, fundraisers, educator and student resources, and anything else that comes along that can be helpful and useful during the next several weeks!”
https://yngspc.com/news_opinion/2020/03/socially-distant-artist-resources/

Gallerist, artist, and educator Frank Juarez (frankjuarezgallery@gmail.com) has decided to “put as much art in the world as possible.” Feel free to email him images of your work, shots of your studio, virtual tours of your studio, or any art news you would like to share. He will share them via Artdose Magazine, FRANK & COMPANY weekly art e-newsletter, and social media.

We don’t know if the April election will be postponed, but today is the last day to request an absentee ballot in Wisconsin: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/
And some reminders:

IMAGINEMKE has opened an artist relief fund for individual artists. Learn more and apply here: https://www.imaginemke.org/mke-artist-relief-fund/apply-to-receive-suppo...

Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board are hosting a series of virtual Arts Listening Sessions to talk about the needs of Wisconsin's arts sector during the COVID-19 crisis. Arts constituents are invited to join any session to share input about the impact of the pandemic and recommendations for action by the Wisconsin Arts Board and Arts Wisconsin.

You can participate on any of these three dates:
Wednesday, March 18, Noon
Thursday, March 19, 7:00 pm
Friday, March 20, 9:00 am

To participate go to http://www.zoom.us/j/4601378823
Enter Meeting ID: 460-137-8823

Thank you to all the artists and others who have forwarded resources. Please keep your suggestions coming, and we will continue to share when we have a critical mass.

Polly


Tuesday, March 17, 2020
We have several new resources and links to share today.

First, IMAGINEMKE has opened an artist relief fund for individual artists. Learn more and apply here: https://www.imaginemke.org/mke-artist-relief-fund/apply-to-receive-support.php

They are also collecting personal narratives from artists to share with local and national audiences. I know you have them, because many of you have written to me about the devastating impact of coronavirus on your lives. Please send your stories directly to Lindsay Sheridan

Second, Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board are hosting a series of virtual Arts Listening Sessions to talk about the needs of Wisconsin's arts sector during the COVID-19 crisis. Arts constituents are invited to join any session to share input about the impact of the pandemic and recommendations for action by the Wisconsin Arts Board and Arts Wisconsin.

You can participate on any of these three dates:
Wednesday, March 18, Noon
Thursday, March 19, 7:00 pm
Friday, March 20, 9:00 am

To participate go to www.zoom.us/j/4601378823
Enter Meeting ID: 460-137-8823

These organizations also have several links to artist resources on their sites, or you can sign up for their e-newsletters.

Third, I’ve received links and resources from local artists, including info on emergency grants
and a public spreadsheet where artists are listing their needs.

Fourth, online platforms for sharing work are popping up all over; isolation provides an opportunity to address a wider audience.For Freedoms has launched Virtual Togethering: “In an effort to provide our community with a way to stay virtually together while being physically separated, we would love to invite you, our community, to lead and participate in Virtual Togethering, a series of digital programming that we will host over the coming weeks. This may include presentations, workshops, activities, games, discussions, or anything else you would like to offer to the For Freedoms community and beyond during this time. We want to create a digital space where we can galvanize our community and share talents, guidance, skills, and energy as a service to all of us staying at home. We are now accepting proposals for these digital programs. If you are interested, please fill out this form by 9pm EST on Thursday, March 19th.”

Finally, for those in the performing arts, check out the National Performance Network’s resources: https://npnweb.org/covid-19-resources/?dm_i=5AJ2,9Z1E,3NYD0Y,11J6G,1

Please keep your suggestions coming, and we will continue to share.

Polly


Monday, March 16, 2020
Creative Capital Arts Resources During COVID-19 Outbreak

In times of crisis, artists are often among those most affected. In addition to health concerns, this is a challenging moment for many in our community as we deal with cancelled income and trying to make plans during uncertain times. Creative Capital has always been anchored by a rich spirit of community and mutual generosity, and we believe that continuing communication and exchange are crucial for all of us. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, we have created a list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well as arts philanthropists, and arts professionals.

We will continue to update this list as the outbreak continues to affect the arts community. Read more: https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/

2010 Nohl Fellows

About the Fellows

Established Artists

BRENT COUGHENOUR
Brent Coughenour is a film- and video-maker from Motor City (USA) currently based in Cream City (USA). One preoccupation in his creative work has been the exploration of narrative cinematic language outside the boundaries of a traditional dependence on drama and plot. His most recent work, including The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead, incorporates computer programming for audio and video manipulation into projects designed for live performance. He has presented his work at a variety of festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film and Video Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Onion City Film and Video Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2009 he toured Europe with his feature-length Super 8 film, I Pity the Fool (2007), screening at bars, festivals, galleries and theaters throughout Germany, Switzerland and France. He is also an occasional member of the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra (MiLO).

PAUL DRUECKE
Paul Druecke's work plays on the relationship between authorship and authority. As part of his 2010 residency at Spaces World Art Program in Cleveland, Druecke produced two bronze plaques to be permanently installed on the Spaces facade. The plaques memorialize the act of memorializing. His contest/installation, Detroit: Phoenix, was presented by The Suburban as part of Steppenwolf Theater's Explore Series. He was recently named Creative Liaison for the Friends of Blue Dress Park, a collaborative project with Los Angeles artist Sara Daleiden. Druecke's projects have been presented at venues including the Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; Many Mini Residency, Berlin House, Berlin, Germany; The Suburban, Chicago; Green Gallery, Milwaukee; and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston. His work has been written about in Metropolis.com, Artforum, Art in America, Artnet.com, and featured in InterReview and Camera Austria.

WALDEK DYNERMAN
Waldek Dynerman was born and educated in Poland. He relocated to the United States in 1983 to teach at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, where he is currently a professor in the Printmaking and Drawing Departments. He works in mixed media painting, sculpture and printmaking. He uses found objects in his 3D constructions, and thrift stores are his favorite place to get art supplies for his mixed media paintings. Although there are many layers to the content of his work, the Holocaust frames and underlies all that he does. Born six years after the end of Word War II, Dynerman grew up in the shadow of war and genocide. His father was a Holocaust survivor, and his non-Jewish mother experienced the horrors of total war and slave labor. Yet this family history never manifests itself directly in his work. Instead, it often assumes a “disguise,” shaped in a semblance of a toy (as in the Train Project) or is full of grotesque humor, as in the most recent paintings.

Emerging Artists

SARAH BUCCHERI
Sarah Buccheri’s approach to filmmaking involves exploration of space and the mutual psychological influence space and its occupants impress upon one another. Many of her works can be categorized as documentaries about certain locations, but once completed, communicate qualities beyond visual characteristics and portrayal of landscape. In her latest film, House Ghost, she examines the artifacts of a person’s presence in a place and how we coexist with artifacts from those who have occupied a space before us. Buccheri received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Film from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and Galapagos Art Space. Her films and videos have screened at Detroit Docs, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.

NEIL GRAVANDER
Electronic artist Neil Gravander graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with degrees in political science and philosophy. His work has been in the area of sound art design; his recent album (under the name Lucky Bone), Non-Hypnotic Catatonic, was released by the local experimental music label FTAM. Currently he is experimenting with electronic circuits, both audio and video, as a process of blurring the line between the two mediums. Audio and video obey the same laws of physics, and Gravander uses equipment and techniques intended for one to shape and manipulate the other. His live performance pieces, which have focused on producing physical representations of sounds, have been seen at the Minute Gallery; in January the gallery will present his collages and an installation. During the fellowship year, Gravander will be applying the audio tape manipulations he has developed to video tape.

ASHLEY MORGAN
Ashley Morgan is a sculptor and a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received an MFA from the Department of Visual Art. Morgan experiments with the non-traditional use of materials; she is interested in how those materials can be transformed to reveal new properties. Her aim is to bring the vastness of the outside world into the home and into the sterile space of a gallery. Each location is deliberately chosen in an attempt to draw the viewer into a romantic world where love and loss are always revealed. Morgan has studied contemporary sculpture on the streets of Florence, Italy, to gain insight into the boundaries between public and private viewing of contemporary art. Her exhibitions include public art projects in Florence, Italy; a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea; and local and national juried, curated and traveling exhibitions. Recently, her work received a prize in the Eight Counties Juried Exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. During the fellowship year, Morgan plans to make interior/exterior architectural installations and to experiment with temperamental environmental manipulation of materials.

CHRIS THOMPSON
Chris James Thompson is a filmmaker from Cambridge, England. His first short documentary, Kyoko Naturally, focused on his widowed friend Kyoko who lives with a slight hoarding problem in an enormous house. It won the Midwest Directors Award at the 2007 Milwaukee International Film Festival. The MIFF prize package was used to begin shooting his current project, Jeff, a documentary film about the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991. Jeff features Dr. Jeffrey Jentzen, Detective Patrick Kennedy, and actor Andrew Swant, and uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the stories of some of those affected in ways unexpected by Dahmer's gruesome acts. Thompson hopes to complete Jeff, his first feature film--over three years in the making--in early 2011.

Yoga in the Garden

Photo: Heather Eiden.

Sundays, 1-2:30 pm June 3 - August 26 (No class July 22)

Free introductory class: Sunday, June 3 as part of our Plein Air/Second Anniversary Celebration (garden admission fees apply)

Fees
Drop-in fee (pay at the admission desk): $15/general; $13/students & seniors (includes admission to the sculpture garden); $6/members
8-class card: $104/general; $88/students & seniors; $40/members. Click here to download a registration form for a class card, or purchase your card at the admission desk. You can use this form to purchase an annual membership and qualify for the $40 member rate for your class card. Class cards are also available at the admission desk and may be used for winter yoga workshops. Class cards are non-transferable and are good for one year.

Find a quiet retreat for the practice of yoga, sheltered from the wind, level and clean, free from rubbish, smoldering fires, and ugliness, where the sound of water and the beauty of the place help thought and contemplation.
- The Upanishads

Heather Eiden, ceramic artist, art educator and yoga instructor, offers a weekly beginning/intermediate Hatha Yoga class outdoors at Lynden each summer. Yoga, which means union, refers to the interconnection of mind, body and spirit. Yoga is an ongoing process of discovery, an evolving art, and a pathway to holistic health. Eiden focuses on mindfulness, centering and alignment as she leads students through asanas (physical postures), pranayama (control of the breath), and relaxation.

The class takes place outdoors (it will move into the art studio in inclement weather), so wear appropriate clothing and footwear (yoga socks) for outdoor practice and bring a mat. Some yoga experience required.

Heather Eiden has been teaching Hatha Yoga since 2004. She is a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and has studied at several places, including the Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Society in Rishikesh, India. She has offered a variety of yoga classes, including Beginning Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Alignment, at the Wisconsin Athletic Club and the Solcare Wellness Center since 2005.

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Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship Program

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists is a central pillar of Lynden’s support for artists. The program is funded by the foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, which was created when artist Mary L. Nohl of Fox Point, Wisconsin, died in December 2001 at the age of 87, leaving a bequest of $9.6 million to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Her fund supports local visual arts and education programs, keeping her passion for the visual arts alive in the community.

The program, funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, has two components. The fellowship program provides unrestricted funds for Established and Emerging artists to create new work or complete work in progress. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Suitcase Export Fund for Visual Art was created to help artists with the cost of exhibiting their work outside the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington). Both programs are open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area. One hundred and twenty-six fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2003.

A virtual workshop will be offered to help prospective applicants better understand the application process. Polly Morris, executive director of the Lynden, who administers the fellowship program, will be joined by current Nohl Fellows Roy Staab, Justin Goodrum and Nicholas Perry at this informal session. The workshop is open to new applicants as well as those who have applied in the past.

• Thursday, September 5, 2024, 6-7:30 pm. Click here to watch a recording of this session.

Morris will also offer three virtual Q&A sessions on Zoom.
• Thursday, September 12, 2024,12 noon-1 pm. Click here to watch a recording of this session.
• Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10-11 am. Click here to watch a recording of this session.
• Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:30-7:30 pm. Click here to watch a recording of this session.
If you are unable to attend the workshop or Q&A sessions on Zoom, they will be recorded and posted to this page.

The 2025 Nohl Fellows will be selected by an independent panel of three visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area. The eighteen-month fellowship period will include studio visits from curators and artists; an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art; an opportunity to present a public program; and an exhibition catalogue with a critical essay about each artist’s work.

For further information:
Polly Morris
Lynden Sculpture Garden
2145 W. Brown Deer Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53217
(414) 446-8794
pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org


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