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Announcing Fall Grant Awards!

Humanities Programs in Focus, Tips for Grant Writers | October 30, 2019 | By:

We are excited to share the following list of Grant Awards totaling $42,700!

The Wisconsin Humanities Council administers the only grant program in the state devoted to the public humanities. Every year, we give away $200,000 in grants to organizations that provide original programs for people all over the state. Our grant program is open seven times a year, with two categories of grants (smaller and larger grants), so we can respond directly to the people who know the needs of their community.

Grant applications are reviewed by our board members, a group of people who represent the breadth of the humanities and the diversity of our state. This October, board members met in Madison to make funding decisions about Major Grants. We are excited to share the following list of Grant Awards totaling $42,700!

The Wisconsin Humanities Council couldn’t fund these projects without support from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the State of Wisconsin, and private donors. This money invested in our state multiplies locally! Learn more…

WHC board meeting October 2019

Board members meet three times a year in person to review Major Grant Applications. Pictured here are board members at the Pyle Center on UW-Madison campus. CENTER: WHC Director Dena Wortzel and WHC Board Chair Arnold Chevalier.


 

Congratulations to the following 8 organizations recently awarded Major Grants and Mini Grants in Brown, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Dane, Door and Marathon Counties:

$2,000 to Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Educational Foundation (Green Bay) | Kao Kalia Yang Presentation

WHC funds will help the college bring Hmong author Kao Kalia Yang to the Green Bay campus to provide a community lecture and workshop open to staff, students, and the community. Yang is the author of “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” and “The Song Poet.” Her works speaks to the refugee and immigrant experiences and she will address issues of literacy and education, as well as race and class of the Hmong people.  This project is part of our focus on race and ethnicity.

$2,000 to UWM Waukesha Foundation |  Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books

We’re pleased to again support the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, a free community celebration of literacy and arts. The 2019 theme is Opening Doors: A Decade of the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.

$2,000 to Crossroads at Big Creek (Sturgeon Bay) | The Big Dig at Crossroads, Fall 2019 

The Big Dig is an authentic archaeological experience for middle school students of Door County. Funds from the grant enable students to have an archaeological experience that include shovel testing, unit excavation, a flintknapping demonstration, flotation machine use, and the cleaning and classification of artifacts.

$2,000 to Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation | Talking Spirits XXI: Forest Hill Cemetery Tour

This popular award-winning living history program illuminates the lives of many prominent and lesser-known figures in Wisconsin history. This year’s theme, “Service Beyond the War,” featured five theatrical performances by actors portraying people with a range of perspectives on both the Civil War and the growth of Wisconsin afterward.

$10,000 to UW-Milwaukee | The Gun Violence Project: Narratives of Violence in Milwaukee 

We’re proud to help fund an important collaborative effort to map the human experiences of gun violence in Wisconsin, beginning with the Milwaukee area. Using a digital platform, this evolving resource will share the audio stories, images, and interactive maps to help engage the community understanding the realities of gun violence at its aftermath.

$5,525 to First Stage Milwaukee | Courage in Storytelling: Workshops inspired by regional premiere GRETEL! 

We’re pleased to again support First Stage’s Foundry Stage Series production and workshops. The musical theater production reinterprets and combines the folktales of “Vasilisa the Beautiful” and “Hansel and Gretel,” relating how a girl overcomes life’s obstacles with courage, perseverance, determination and kindness. The reach of this project includes extended programming for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee.

$9,175 to Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) | Conversations About Immigration in Marathon County 

WHC funds support a three-part series designed to lay out facts, bust myths, provide local perspective and make space for conversations on how the issue of immigration affects central Wisconsin communities. This project is part of our focus on race and ethnicity.

$10,000 to Music Theatre of Madison | INDECENT: A Tony-winning play with extensive significance 

We’re pleased to support this ambitious presentation of “Indecent,” a play the explores themes of anti-semitism, censorship, sexuality, and love of art. In association with this production, MTM will work in collaboration with numerous community partners to provide supporting educational materials.


 


Announcing $109,587 in grant awards this spring!

Humanities Programs in Focus | March 8, 2019 | By:

 

We are so incredibly proud of the way our grant program provides crucial funds to support homegrown efforts in communities large and small around the state. For each WHC grant dollar we award, an average of $4.87* comes to the project as match from the local community. With seven deadlines every year, our grant program is accessible. It provides the assistance community leaders need to turn dreams into reality.

The recent grant awards are stellar examples. These projects bring people together for opportunities to stretch minds, meet new people, and explore ideas about what it means to be human today, in times past, and into the future.

Humanities events are happening all around the state, coming soon to someplace near you. You can read project descriptions here, find upcoming events here, and follow what is happening on our Facebook page!

Thank you for staying engaged, sharing your ideas, and supporting the humanities in Wisconsin. Now check out this impressive list of outstanding humanities projects we are funding!
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Announcing Spring Grant Awards totaling $102,427

Humanities Programs in Focus | March 14, 2018 | By:

This spring we are proud to announce that 17 organizations have been awarded $102,427 in Major Grants and Mini Grants! These projects tell meaningful stories about Wisconsin and bring communities together to explore important themes. We welcome you to be a part of the story and see these projects and events

The Wisconsin Humanities Council couldn’t fund these projects without support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. The NEH provides 90% of the funding that enables us to bring great programming, support and services to the state of Wisconsin. Curious about the WHC’s impact in the state? Learn more here!

Inspiration starts here!


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Announcing Major Grant awards this fall

Humanities Programs in Focus | November 8, 2017 | By:

We’re pleased to award $29,420 in Major Grants to three great projects that include capturing Wisconsin music history to exploring the issues of sexual assault in a Native American community through a Wisconsin Reads project to finding common ground among persons of different faith traditions.

The Wisconsin Humanities Council couldn’t fund these projects without support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. The NEH provides 90% of the funding that enables us to bring great programming, support and services to the state of Wisconsin. Project sponsors match grants in their community with an average of $3 for every $1 we award.

Congratulations to these three organizations! These projects tell meaningful stories about Wisconsin and bring communities together to explore important themes. We welcome you to be a part of the story and see these projects and events.

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Major Grants Announced

Humanities Programs in Focus | June 28, 2017 | By:

We’re pleased to award $71,460 to eight outstanding projects that explore history, culture, race and ethnicity, youth leadership and regional folklore and lifeways. The Wisconsin Humanities Council couldn’t fund these projects without support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. The NEH provides 90% of the funding that enables us to bring great programming, support and services to the state of Wisconsin. Project sponsors match grants in their community with an average of $3 for every $1 we award.

Congratulations to these eight organizations! These projects tell meaningful stories about Wisconsin and bring communities together to explore important themes. We welcome you to be a part of the story and see these projects and events.

Inspiration starts here!

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Dialing Into the History of La Crosse

Humanities Programs in Focus | July 28, 2016 | By:

Hear Here sign in downtown La Crosse

“[O]ur heritage is complicated and nuanced. New forms of history include more voices, which means acknowledging more aspects of our past and present and taking into consideration the narratives of both the winners and the losers.” -Ariel Beaujot, Project Director for Hear, Here, an interactive oral history of La Crosse

Hear, Here is the first project of the new Public and Policy History Major in the UW-La Crosse Department of History. When the Project Director and Associate Professor of History, Ariel Beaujot, pitched her interactive oral history idea for a Major Grant to the WHC in 2014, she wrote, “This is street level history.”

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Our New Grant Program Director is Here!

Humanities Programs in Focus, Tips for Grant Writers | July 14, 2016 | By:

New WHC grant program director's farm

This is where our new Grant Program Director, Meg Turville-Heitz, calls home.

We are excited to introduce you to Meg, our new Grant Program Director!

Hi! I’m Meg, the new WHC Grant Program Director.  I’m the newest member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council staff and I’ve been asked to introduce myself. Pleased to meet you! I’m eager to learn about your public humanities programs and work with you on your grant applications.

I’m a writer; writing an introduction should be easy. But I have that Midwest “humble” ingrained from birth, that tendency to not crow, to blush at praise, and to self-deprecate whenever there are opportunities to shine. Add to that an irreverent and somewhat gallows-minded sense of humor and I spend a lot of time kicking myself, mostly metaphorically, with under-the-breath “I shouldn’t have said that” moments.

But I digress.

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Announcing Major Grants Awarded in June

Humanities Programs in Focus | June 22, 2016 | By:

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Eight Major Grants total $73,057!

Congratulations to our summertime Major Grant recipients. These eight outstanding projects represent the breadth of the public humanities, as well as the potential. These projects address important topics, from human trafficking to the treatment of the mentally ill to the relationship between archaeologists and native tribal communities. In eight different ways, these projects answer the question, “Why do the humanities matter?”  

We are so proud to help support these efforts with grants from the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Thank you for taking a moment to read about these projects, for learning more, and for being engaged in the public humanities in so many ways.  Click on the organizational names to visit their websites and check out our Calendar of Events to find these exhibitions, programs, events and films over the coming year. 

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Announcing Fall Major Grant Awards

Humanities Programs in Focus | November 3, 2015 | By:

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We are excited to announce the fall round of Major Grant awards!

Six is the magic number this fall. We are so proud of the six projects that received Mini-grants at the end of August, and pleased to announce the following six organizations are receiving WHC Major Grants for their outstanding projects. 

In reading this list you will see just how much important public humanities work is being done in our state. These are conversations about race and culture, about immigration and getting to know one another better. Read More


Museums and the WHC: Connecting Wisconsinites

Humanities Programs in Focus, Voices from the Field | May 21, 2014 | By:

Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Museums help visitors make connections: between people and the natural environment; between the present and more complex pasts; between familiar and unfamiliar communities.  Given this role, perhaps it is not surprising that the American Alliance of Museums estimated there are 850 million visits to American museums annually.

Last week the Wisconsin Federation of Museums sponsored Wisconsin Museums Week to showcase the hard work and positive impacts museums have across the state.  This year’s theme: “Museum Collections Make Connections.”  I hit the road to touch base with three museums to see what kinds of connections they are making with their recent WHC mini-grants.

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