Nohl 2011: Ninth Cycle of Fellowship Program for Visual Artists Announced
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For immediate release: 24 August 2011
For further information: Polly Morris, (414) 446-8794
pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org
NINTH CYCLE OF FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR VISUAL ARTISTS ANNOUNCED
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists Program to Recognize Seven Artists in 2011
The Bradley Family Foundation, in collaboration with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, announces the ninth 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 2011: 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 comprised of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties. Fifty-three fellowships have been awarded since the program began in 2003.
Applications and guidelines for the ninth cycle of the fellowship program will be available beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Completed applications are due no later than Thursday, October 6, 2011. To receive application materials and complete eligibility requirements, please contact Polly Morris at (414) 446-8794 or by e-mail at pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org. Applications will also be available on the web at http://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl. Awards will be announced on Monday, November 7, 2011. This year, applications will be completed online. Only work samples will need to be mailed or dropped off.
Three public workshops will be offered to help applicants better understand the application process. Polly Morris, executive director of the Lynden Sculpture Garden, who administers the fellowship program, will be joined by current and past Nohl Fellows at these informal sessions. The workshops are free; guidelines and applications will be available at each session.
• Wednesday, September 7, 6-7 pm at Jazz Gallery, a Riverwest Community Art Center, 926 East Center Street. This session is co-sponsored by the Riverwest Artist Association.
• Saturday, September 10, 1-2:15 pm at Walker's Point Center for the Arts, 839 S. 5th St. in Milwaukee. This session is co-sponsored by WPCA.
• Thursday, September 22, 6-7 pm at the MARN Gallery, 5407 W. Vliet St.This session is co-sponsored by Milwaukee Artists’ Resource Network and Wisconsin Visual Artists.
In addition, Morris will work directly with artists’ organizations, including CoPA (Coalition of Photographic Arts) to encourage participation in the fellowship program.
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 one of the largest gifts the Foundation has received from a single donor in its 96-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.
The 2011 Nohl Fellows will be selected by a panel of recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area: Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Tumelo Mosaka, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Elizabeth Thomas, Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at BAM/PFA (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive). In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition in the autumn of 2012. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally.
A reception honoring the seven fellows selected in the 2010 cycle of the competition—Brent Coughenour, Paul Druecke and Waldek Dynerman (Established Artists) and Sarah Buccheri, Neil Gravander, Ashley Morgan and Chris James Thompson (Emerging Artists)—will be held in conjunction with the opening of the Fellowship Exhibition on Friday, September 30, 2011. The opening of the exhibition at Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., begins at 5 pm and is free and open to the public.
Two other Nohl-related events are planned for this fall. On Thursday, September 8, 2011 there will be a reception for the artists in Out of the Suitcase IV, the biennial exhibition honoring recipients of Suitcase Export Fund awards. The exhibition remains on view at MIAD, 272 E. Erie St., through October 8. On Friday, September 16, 2011, the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates Nohl Fellows from 2003-2009 in their MAM After Dark event. Fellows will exhibit work in the gallerias, and a screening will be held in Lubar Auditorium after a panel discussion at 6:15 pm. The panel, moderated by curator Lisa Hostetler, will consider the ways artists living outside major art centers connect to the larger art world.
The Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship program also includes a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area. The ninth cycle of the Suitcase Export Fund will open on December 1, 2011, when applications and guidelines will become available at http://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s mission is to strengthen communities through effective partnerships. It is made up of over 1,000 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.
