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Wisconsin Arts Board
with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
Racine Arts Council,
supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin,
provides ArtSeed grants
to encourage and enhance the arts throughout Racine County.
2024 ArtSeed Recipients
BeLEAF Survivors “Photovoice” ($1500)
Sexual assault survivors will express themselves with self-created photographic images to capture aspects of their lived experiences to share with others. Pictures will be paired with captions composed by the photographers, culminating in an exhibition during the April 2025 Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The Poetry Movement ($1500)
The Poetry Movement seeks to bring poetry to Racine via transportation. The Poetry Movement will host a 25-syllable poem contest in celebration of 2025, with winning authors' work displayed on placards on City of Racine buses and published in a booklet distributed throughout the community.
The QuaranTeam “Mansfield Mysteries” ($1500)
The creative team will produce a third season of the “Mansfield Mysteries” podcast for international distribution. The cozy, satirical whodunnit podcast is written, recorded, designed, performed, and produced in Racine.
Racine Concert Band “2024 Independence Day Concert” ($1500)
A special Independence Day Concert at the Kiwanis Amphitheater within the Racine Zoo will be presented free of charge. Mayor Cory Mason will perform Aaron Copeland’s “Lincoln Portrait” paired with “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” sung by UW-Parkside Assistant Professor Ayesu Lartey. The evening will include additional Broadway and patriotic selections.
Racine Video Production Workshop “Animated Life 2” ($1500)
Film of a local creator will be animated using “rotoscoping,” with the original video edited to create the final film's audio track and template. The final 3- to 6-minute short film celebrating creativity and highlighting local artists will be entered into film festivals.
Racine Zoo “Vanishing Kingdom Mural” ($1500)
Offering an opportunity for an emerging artist to create a mural for the main entrance into the Zoo’s Vanishing Kingdom building. The building is a historic landmark at the Zoo and houses popular animals including African Lions, White-Handed Gibbons, Emperor Tamarins, and Orangutans.
Sweatshop Workshop “SWEAT Fest: Street Jamz Vol. 6” ($1000)
A 7-hour Festival-within-a-Festival at Party on the Pavement featuring performances by local youth competitive dance crews along with “Street Jamz”. “Street Jamz” is a series of dance battles in various forms of street dance, including breakdancing, krump, footwork, ‘all-styles,’ and a youth-only free-style dance battle that draws competitors from across the globe.
2023 ArtSeed Recipients
John Bloner – Krazines ($500.00) Moss Piglet publication
Krazines / Moss Piglet 8th Anniversary
Krazines published 100 copies of its January edition, a full-color, perfect bound art and literary journal.
In addition, Krazines welcomed the public to an art studio, co-leased by John Bloner, Jr., publisher and editor of Moss Piglet, on Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 16th Street Studios. Hundreds of people toured the studio and Bloner distributed three different types of full-color Krazines/Moss Piglet bookmarks.
Choral Arts Society ($1,000.00) "The Cry"
The Cry: A Requiem for the Lost Child
Choral Arts Society’s October 2023 production of The Cry was transformed from a concert into a multimedia experience. A sixty-one slide loop combining Ukrainian children’s art and the watercolors of Marjororie Theodore was synchronized with the music of The Cry in performance, providing an intimate and active relationship between the arts and a visual cross-cultural connection.
CAS created two pre-concert facilitated conversations using the same digital slideshow The focus was on the power of intergenerational art to heal and create hope and change. After watching the slideshow loop, participants were asked to remember a time in their own lives when someone ignited possibility and then create a small art piece of their own illustrating that moment. Participants then shared their art and stories. The session was a powerful “igniting” for the concert itself.
The second workshop was inspired by the idea of the first: Compassion for Children presented by Dr. John Brug. In this workshop Brug spoke of the devastation of children’s lives on both sides of the conflict – Ukrainian and Russian.
Family Power of Music ($1,000.00) Origins of Hip Hop 11
Origins of Hip Hop 11
A successful live and streamed event held August 19 2023, celebrating the elements of Hip-Hop Culture, including DJing, MCing, Breakdance, and Graffiti with the objective increase knowledge
First Presbyterian Church ($1,500.00) Music & More Concert Series 30th Anniversary Season
30-Year Anniversary Season Finale Concert held on Friday, August 18, 7:00 p.m.
The founder of Music & More, Randy Bush came from Maryland to perform with his wife and daughter during the first half. The second half of the concert featured 15 Favorite Beatles Songs. The Choral Arts Society—with lead singers Mark Paffrath and Marv Dykhuis—was backed up by band.
Littleport Brewing ($1,500.00) Imagine Alley Mural
12’x 9' exterior wall mural by artist Jane Cascio in Imagine Alley, Downtown Racine
Goal was for the mural to feel joyous and include the elements of the Maya Angelou coin figure and Purple Martin. Group also wanted nature to be represented with flowers, the cosmos and waves, along with highlighting musical notes in the design.
The final mural is stunning and is well received by the public and Downtown Racine Corporation.
Over Our Head Players ($1,500.00) "Seven Sacrifices"
Seven Sacrifices – an original production in collaboration with Racine Area Veterans, Inc.
In January, 2024, OOHPs produced an original production honoring local Veterans while increasing understanding about what it means to serve our country. OOHPs engaged nearly 50 local artists, musicians, historians, and Veterans to create a historically accurate production that is also artistic in nature.
Racine Area Veterans, Inc (RAVI), a non-profit organization supplied research, expertise, period uniforms, props, and volunteer time. They also put up an impressive display of military artifacts in our Lobby for the two weeks of the run. RAVI raised over $1,500 to support the Legacy Museum in Racine and supplied free mental health awareness dog tags with a phone number for a help line on it.
Racine Concert Band ($1,000.00) "Rooted in Racine" Zoo Concert
Rooted in Racine 2023 Concerts
The “Rooted in Racine” concerts celebrated the achievements and successes of musicians who developed their musical skills in local school music programs and in private instruction with the professionals within our community. The project sought to draw attention to the high quality of arts education in our area and the robust level of community music participation that creates opportunities for musicians of all ages and abilities. It also aspired to draw attention to the strong track record of local institutions in launching, nurturing, and developing talented and dedicated musicians.
The concert was free and open to the public.
Racine Symphony Orchestra ($1,000.00) Artist-in-Residence
Artist-in-Residence Program and Fall Masterworks Concert
Catherine Van Handel, Principal Bassoon for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, served as Artist-in-Residence and concert soloist in October, 2023.
Ms. Catherine Van Handel worked with approximately 500 students at a total of 6 RUSD schools over the course of three days. Those interactions included a performance as well as teaching, coaching, and Q&A opportunities with students. Additionally, Catherine Van Handel was the guest soloist for the RSO Fall Masterworks concert on Saturday, October 14, 2023.
Sweatshop Movement ($1,000.00) "Sweat Fest"
SWEAT Fest: Street Jamz Vol. 5
Battle and showcase held during Party on the Pavement street festival, September 16, 2023.
All day entertainment featuring more than 60 Racine youth and offering over $700 in prizes. Stellar performances woven amidst rounds of breaking and all-styles battles.
2022 ArtSeed Recipients
Choral Arts Society ($1500)
The CAS will present a concert featuring Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C, K317 and Purcell’s Come, Ye Sons of Art. Both will be performed by a full chorus, vocal soloists, orchestra and organ. The performance will be treated as a royal celebration in which audience members are invited to dress up and will be treated like “royal” guests.
Racine Video Production Workshop ($1500)
Animate Life, is a 5-minute film of several performers/actors performing monologues & dialogues about life philosophy using a technique call Rotoscoping. This project will include local illustrators, students and actors.
Spirit of Racine Music Makers, Inc. ($1500)
Holiday Spirit 2022 will be perfomed by vocalists, instrumentalists, handbell and chime ringers, a concert of seasonal music to bring peace, social justice and love to our community.
Over Our Head Players ($1500)
OOHP is partnering with Oddly Incorporated to produce a live puppet sketch comedy musical based on Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”. The show will be performed at Sixth Street Theatre in Downtown Racine in October 2022.
Racine Historical Society & Museum ($1500)
The RHM will mount an exhibit exploring Frank L. Wright’s early career and in particular, the forgotten story of Corwin and Wright – and their dynamics together as the obscure “Frank L. Wright” transformed himself into the famous “Frank Lloyd Wright”.
2021 ArtSeed Recipients
Knapp Elementary School ($1000)
Students, staff and community members will design and paint large murals to brighten up the hallways of their school.
Choral Arts Society ($1000)
“Better Together” is a collaborative concert program with the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church.
Racine Concert Band ($1500)
The inaugural concert for the Racine Legends concert series had nationally acclaimed trumpeter, Tim Burke in performance.
Sweatshop Movement ($1500)
“Sweat Fest” is a 7-hour Festival-within-a-Festival at Party on the Pavement, that features several performances from local youth competitive dance crew showcasing all-styles and youth-only dance battles.
Mimi Peterson ($1500)
A Vital Art Project documentary focuses on art and architecture of the Uptown Business Corridor.
Kristina Campbell ($1500)
Art for Uptown is a movement which began in 2019 with 10 murals completed on local buildings and will continue with many more.
Samira Gdisis ($1500)
“Capturing the Elusive” is a pilot documentary series of film shorts, capturing the “spirit” and essence of an artist as they create.
Nick Ramsey ($1500)
Wall Poems of Racine seeks to design and mount mural a second building illustrating a poem by a Racine County poet.
RUSD Montessori Art Club ($500)
RUSD Montessori PTA and parent volunteers will lead the effort to create, design and paint a mural for the interior of the school in collaboration with the community.
Scott Terry ($500)
An exhibit of powerful photography taken during the explosive times of the summer of 2020 when the Black Humanity Now mural painting was done in downtown Racine.
2020 ArtSeed Recipients
Racine Symphony Orchestra ($1000) African-American Cellist Joshua Zajac, a Chicago native, will share the stage with professional musicians of the Racine Symphony Orchestra as well as choral arts students from the Racine Unified School District presenting a free concert at Knapp Elementary School, a community and neighborhood school.
Nicholas Dye ($1000) REACT: Racine Electronic Arts Collective is a quarterly event in Racine that establishes an environment for electronic artists to collaborate, showcase their work, and share ideas with the community. Events are centered on innovation and artistic expression through electronics technology including; musical synthesizers, digital art, video art and projection, computers and programming, circuit design, and finding new uses for old technology.
Nick Ramsey ($1000) The Wall of Poems Racine project serves to spotlight the poetic offerings of our Racine authors (alive and deceased) on numerous walls throughout our city. Think of these as murals combining both visual and literary art, much like a poetry broadside. We're confident that once our first example is up for viewing, many organizations and individuals alike will help to popularize this new idea. The hope is to not only have one of these, but to build ongoing momentum for future wall poems.
Racine Concert Band ($1000) A Poetic Musical Collaboration. Working in cooperation with the Kenosha/Racine Poets Laureate, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the Racine Unified School District, the Racine Concert will commission a new musical composition for the band inspired by a new poetic composition by a Racine-based poet. The new work will be composed by Dr. James Crowley, Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at UW-Parkside. The Kenosha/Racine Poets Laureate will work with the composer to identify candidates to submit poetry for consideration for the project.
Mark Paffrath ($1000) "Coming Home to You!" will bring live music via video to those senior communities where live music is a staple part of activities. As most everybody knows, daily activities are of utmost importance in any senior community and now because of the coronavirus, most seniors living in communities are unfortunately not only kept from any group activities, but are also quarantined to their rooms only, not having any socializing activities whatsoever. Live music video presentations will be created from my home and made available to stream for residents by the places where I would normally go to do my live shows.
RAM/Wustum Museum ($1000) As the City of Racine transforms into a Smart City, the Racine Art Museum Association, Inc. (RAMA) is committed to accepting the challenge to join this initiative by creating a Zero Waste Racine Art program. This new, innovative eco-design venture will implement policies that redirect the dialogue to change the narrative, build community awareness, and create socially responsible art, while creating employment opportunities for artists through collaborations within the Racine community.
Gilmore Fine Arts/RUSD ($1000) Gilmore Fine Art Theatre Project will create multiple pieces of artwork to beautify the theatre area in the school, working with students, teachers and local artist. These will include a mural, sculpture for entrance to the theatre, and sculpture for the stage.
Semone Love ($500) The Young Author's Project is designed to engage members of the Dr. Martin Luther King Community, specifically children from diverse backgrounds, who are under-represented in literacy programs that inspire the creative writing process. Our objective is to feature 10 books created by children at Young Author's Day at Racine Public Library in collaboration with BONK! and Cops N' Kids Reading Center
2019 ArtSeed Recipients
Jason Love -
Grant Award - $1500
Love will be hosting animation & filmmaking workshops, presentating a two-day animation film festival and collaborating with film directors.
Belle Ensemble
Grant Award - $1325
Belle Ensemble will be presenting three performances of "Amahl and the Night Visitor" at The DeKoven Center, January 9-10, 2020
Choral Arts Society
Grant Award - $1000
Maestro Jim Schatzman, will lead the CAS in a concert, "Words of Wonder, Wit & Wisdom", incorporating local poets, living composers and classical literature.
Vital Art Project
Grant Award - $1000
Mimi Peterson is leading the "Optics Project" in Urban Uptown utilizing art and art spaces to influence the neighborhood as a legitimate center of creative culture.
Sweatshop Movement - Jam Fest
Grant Award - $1000
Erika Bozinovski will bring Sweatshop Jam Fest to downtown Racine's Party on the Pavement. This Festival-within-the-Festival will feature break-dancing, hip hop and all styles of dance.
Dave Westman - River Bend Carving Club
Grant Award - $1000
Dave will lead "Carving for Kids", a program focused on begining carving, hoping to inspire kids to put down their cell phones and video games and learn an artform they can participate for a lifetime.
Our Musical Life
Grant Award - $1000
Choir Director Keith Griffin, will reheare and lead a boys choir composed of 3rd -7th grade singers who will perform at the Midieval Times Theatre in Chicago before a show. They will also record and publish their music to YouTube and other social media.
Christine Ingaldson
Grant Award - $800
"Modular on the Rescue" is a creative program using a "Pop-up" style of performance from a refurbished ambulance, outfitted with a synthesizer and video production, taking their act to abandoned and remote areas.
Krazine's
Grant Award - $500
Krazine's is an ensemble of artists and authors who host monthly art-making meetups for the general public at art galleries, studios, coffee shops and private residences. A full-color publication titled "Moss Piglet" will be printed.
2018 ArtSeed Recipients
Rene Amado Photography
Grant Award: $1,500
Website
Rene Amado is a Racine photographer. His public art project, Racine Stories, will capture the personal stories and portraits of the Racinians. Portraits will be installed on the exterior walls of local businesses as a public art installation. Racine Stories is part of the international Inside Out Project, a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.
Jason Love
Grant Award: $1,000
Website
Through his Autism A La Mode YouTube channel and Facebook page, Jason Love
shares his documentaries of families from around Racine who have children with autism. Each film helps build awareness of autism in the community, and ultimately builds acceptance both locally and globally. Love will work with students from J.I. Case High School Media Class and the after-school program video production club (Eagle Video, Editing, & Recording) throughout the production process.
Beat Council
Grant Award: $1,000
Founded in 1997, Beat Council is a unique production studio offering a full package of high quality production, recording, design, merchandise and a staff of songwriters. Beat Council will create videos that focus on casting Racine and its surrounding communities in a positive light. Videos will highlight the wealth of artistic talent that often goes unnoticed or under reported.
Family Power Music
Grant Award: $1,500
Website
Origins of Hip-Hop 7 will take place on Saturday, August 18, 2018 from 4pm-10pm at Smoke'd on the Water (3 Fifth St. Racine, WI 53403). The goal is to highlight the culture of Hip-Hop including the four primary elements of break dancing, graffiti, DJing, and emceeing. Origins of Hip-Hop 7 will bring a diverse audience of all ages and a variety of ethnic groups together to share in this atmosphere of creativity.
Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin
Grant Award: $1,500
The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols was introduced in 1918 to bring a more imaginative approach to telling the Christmas story. The Choral Arts Society has been presenting this popular holiday program since 1991. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Lessons and Carols and Choral Arts Society plans to celebrate this landmark occasion by introducing a few creative touches to launch this program in to its second century. The combination of new and traditional music presented by amateur and professional musicians in some of Racine's most beautiful and architecturally interesting venues will offer a visually and spiritually rich experience to the audience, and to the performers.
Gallery on 16th
Grant Award: $1,500
Gallery on 16th is a collaborative partnership between the more than 65 artists who utilize space for their creative practice within the 16th Street Studios at the Racine Business Center.
Serving as an art incubator, 16th Street Studios, provides space for artists to collaborate, network and learn from each other. Funds will be used to continue to draw attention to the gallery, its artists and the Racine arts community.
Vital Art Project
Grant Award: $1,500
Vital Art Poject will present XOXO EARTH where audience and artist interact in dialogue to bring tangentially related concepts together. The exhibit’s thirteen regional artists share a passion for inventive use of materials and innovative methods. Much of the three-dimensional eco-art incorporates salvaged materials as experiment. Using found object troupe, the artists intend to create a room size installation to narrate human feelings of detachment and social indifference.
Racine Symphony Orchestra
Grant Award: $1,500
Racine, Live!, as hosted by the Racine Symphony Orchestra (RSO) with talented Racine residents as featured guest artists, will deliver a refreshing, entertaining and diverse evening of music at RSO's August Summer Pops Concert. Each performer, selected by audition, will have their moment in the literal and figurative spotlight as they perform their heart out. RSO musicians will provide the appropriate accompaniment for each guest artist.
Bonk! Performance Series
Grant Award: $1,500
Website
Bonk! occurs at various locations around Racine one Saturday each month. Three 20-30 minute performances occur at each event; usually two literary performances (readings or recitations from poets, spoken word artists or other kinds of writers) and another performance - usually music, but occasionally video, food art, dance, or comedy. Each BONK! features a carefully curated selection of artists representing not only diversity of artistic expression but also diversity of geography, age, race, ethnicity and gender.
Sweatshop Movement
Grant Award: $1,000
Website
SNOW Motion is an annual Winter Dance Showcase, and a county-wide celebration of the joy of movement. The line-up is made up of dances from Racine SWEAT Competitive Dance Teams, as well as students in various After School programs offered through Racine Unified School District and United Way. This showcase gives young dancers the opportunity to share the stage with professional artists, inspiring their own work while also encouraging them to continue pursuing their interest in dance and the arts. The show also aims to encourage Racine to get moving as both dance and regular movement positively impacts our lives.
2017 ArtSeed Recipients
Nicholas Barootian
Grant Award $1,500
The grant will fund a joint venture concert with Parkside Range, the collegiate a cappella group started last year at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. The concert, A Cappella: A Brief History of Unaccompanied Song, will consist of songs that feature the human voice without any instrumental or recorded accompaniment. Intended as the most fun kind of history lesson, the concert will include music from over four centuries of stylistic developments, beginning with the late Renaissance in Europe and ending with the modern collegiate a cappella movement sparked in recent years in the U.S.
BONK!
Grant Award $1,500
Bonk! occurs at various locations around Racine one Saturday each month. Three 20-30 minute performances occur at each event; usually two literary performances (readings or recitations from poets, spoken word artists or other kinds of writers) and another performance - usually music, but occasionally video, food art, dance, or comedy. Each BONK! features a carefully curated selection of artists representing not only diversity of artistic expression but also diversity of geography, age, race, ethnicity and gender.
Choral Arts Society
Grant Award $1,500
Choral Arts Society will join with the Studio of Classical Dance Arts in Racine to create a production of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana featuring adult chorus and soloists, young dancers, and children’s chorus. The Studio and CAS will devise their own staging, costuming, sets/scenery, lighting, and sound in consultation with expert technicians and staff at UW-Parkside.
Elkid M. Alvarez
Grant Award $750
Elkid will be producing a project called “Write Around The Corner”, a collection of works written by the citizens of Racine county. Works will vary in genre and length and writers of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience will be invited to submit.
Gallery on 16th
Grant Award $1,500
Gallery on 16th is a collaborative partnership between the more than 60 artists who utilize space for their creative practice within the 16th Street Studios at the Racine Business Center (RBC). They will be using their funds to continue to draw attention to the gallery, its artists and the Racine arts community.
Jason Love
Grant Award $1,500
Jason's project will include the creation of three mini-documentaries of families from around Racine who have children with autism. Each documentary will share one family's story to inspire others, build awareness of autism in the community, and ultimately build acceptance both locally in Racine and globally. Each video will be five to ten minutes in length.
Karel Suchy with Voices and Verses
Grant Award $500
Eros and Errors is an inter-disciplinary performance mini-series based on the theme of love in its many stages and varieties. The multi-media event will incorporate poetry (spoken and sung), vocal and instrumental music (composed and improvised), and visual art. Special guests will add their own loving touches to the performance. Donations are encouraged.
Over Our Head Players
Grant Award $1,500
OOHP will be writing and producing an original show during the 2017-2018 season called ‘ Kringle’ ..The Musical”– Racine’ s first sketch comedy musical about pastry. The script will feature local humor and will be a parody. It will follow the story of the family who invented and brought Kringle to Racine. It will not be historically accurate and will not “call out” any specific bakeries in Racine but will definitely feature OOHP’s very own fun, and sometimes wacky, comedy style.
Racine Creative Center
Grant Award $1,500
RCC will use their funds to hire an MATC animation student to guide High School aged kids into the career path of the Digital Arts. He will teach them what they need to know, what to do and what to expect when becoming animator. He will also introduce the students to VR and AR technologies.
Racine Zoo
Grant Award $700
Racine Zoo will host Animals and Artisans, an event that brings together local artisans to showcase and establish their work, encourage creativity in children, and inspire all participants within the unique setting of a nationally accredited zoo. Local artists will showcase their work while children will be able to create their own works of art based on any of more than 70 species housed at the zoo. Even the animals will be getting in on the fun, creating their own art to show guests that anyone can be an artist!
Racine Art Museum
Grant Award $1,500
RAM will host the Full Steam Ahead large scale printmaking in 2018 at RAM’s Wustum Museum, in conjunction with Open House Racine County. Racine and Kenosha area printmakers will be invited to design large woodblock and linoleum prints, to be printed with a drum roller as the make-shift printing press on the event day.
Love will be hosting animation & filmmaking workshops, hosting a two-day animation film festival and collaborating with film festival directors.
2016 ArtSeed Recipients
Nicholas Barootian
The Belle Ensemble will be producing two choral productions: O Death featuring German music of the pre-World War II era, and Station Keeping presenting Baroque master Heinrich Schütz’s Sieben Worte (Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross) paired with a setting of the Stabat Mater by the living Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. https://www.facebook.com/BelleEnsemble Grant Award: $1,500
Gallery on 16th
The Gallery on 16th is a new collaborative partnership between the 57 artists who utilize space for their creative practice within the 16th Street Studios at the Racine Business Center. ArtSeed funding will assist with the hire of a gallery coordinator to work with the steering committee and the student interns during the start-up process.
http://16thststudio.tumblr.com/ Grant Award: $1,500
Origins of Hip-Hop 5
A free event for the Racine community on Saturday August 20th, Origins of Hip
Hop 5 highlights the artistic culture of breakdancing, graffiti, DJing, and emceeing.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1722583611290236/ Grant Award: $1,500
Build A Bow For A Cause
Build A Bow is a 9 year old entrepreneur’s homage to his recently deceased grandfather. The ArtSeed grant will help to fund a monthly event at assisted living facilities and community service centers, allowing participants to create a free bow tie or hair bow to send to children with cancer, veterans, and/or active military. https://www.facebook.com/BuildABowtie/home Grant Award: $750
First Presbyterian Church
The ART to Table project is a community collaboration among First Presbyterian Church, the West Park neighborhood residents, the City of Racine Parks Department, and local artists to design and paint six wooden, metal-frame picnic tables for the community to use in West Park. http://firstpresracine.org/
Grant Award: $1,000
Racine Art Museum
Will host four Guest Artist-in-Residence days. Each day or evening event will feature a new artist, invited to work in the studios at Wustum or RAM, sharing their vision and processes with the public. http://www.ramart.org/ Grant Award: $1,500
2015 ArtSeed Recipients
Nicholas Barootian
Belle Ensemble joins singer Mariam Kocharian and violinist Nina Frunjian in an evening featuring the music of Armenia and its neighbors, honoring the martyrs of the Turkish genocide against the Armenian people in 1915 and celebrating the
endurance of Armenia, its culture and its people. Grant Award: $1,500
BONK!
Local performance art series, showcasing artists at various locations around Racine one Saturday every month. Performances may include: music, literature recitation, video, food art, dance, comedy, and more. Grant Award: $1,500
http://bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com/tag/bonk-racine/
Choral Arts Society
Presenting a journey through jazz performance with jazz greats Jack Grassel and Jill Jensen. This concert will explore the jazz repertoire accompanied by educational facts and stories.
Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.choralartsonline.org/
Family Power Music
Grassroots Wednesday’s Open Mic and Artist Showcase is held every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Individuals of all ages and genres are encouraged to share their talents with the community.
Grant Award: $1,500 http://familypowermusic.com/
Samira Gdisis
Advancing the "Artist of the Book" project, a series of book arts conversation and workshops that focus on the art of hand-bound books. These events will be facilitated by local, regional, and national book artists throughout the year.
Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.blackeyedpress.com/
Over Our Head Players
Performing "OOHPIE vs. The Big Bad Wolf", this special production features original adaptations of classic children’s fairy tales combined with live musical performances. Grant Award: $1,000
http://www.overourheadplayers.org/
Origins of Hip-Hop 4
A free event for the Racine community highlighting the culture of breakdancing, graffiti, DJing, and emceeing. Grant Award: $1,500
Racine Art Museum
Hosting four guest Artist-in-Residence days at the Wustum Museum. The public is invited for a day-long event to work in the studios with practicing visual artists. Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.ramart.org/
River Bend Nature Center
Hosting a week-long summer camp called “the Arts of Nature”. Youth ages 4-13 will enjoy interactive experiences in dance, theatre, music, poetry, and the visual arts, focusing on the relationship between art and nature.
Grant Award: $1,000 http://riverbendnaturecenterracine.org/
Thomas Rutkowski and Natalie Chulew
A mosaic installation at Zoo Beach created with community members. To complement the mythological theme of Zoo Beach’s existing mosaic, the additional 3-panel mosaic will feature a depiction of the Demeter and Persephone myth. Grant Award: $1,500
2014 ArtSeed Recipients
BONK!
Monthly multi-media performances including poetry, spoken word, music, video, dance and comedy. Grant Award: $1,500
http://bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com/tag/bonk-racine/
Choral Arts Society
"Verdi at Terezin 1944" A multi-media performance of Verdi’s Requiem created in collaboration with local artists, performers and Czech artists. The immersive experience will explore events surrounding performances of the masterwork in 1944 by Conductor Raphael Schachter in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin in the former Czechoslovakia.
Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.choralartsonline.org/
Family Power Music
Grassroots Wednesday's Open Mic & Artist Showcase is a bi-weekly event that encourages individuals of all ages and all genres to demonstrate their unique forms of expression to the community. Grant Award: $1,500
Jeff Levonian
"Walk A Book 2015" A collaborative multi-media book project, exhibit and community outreach program featuring visual interpretations by several area artists of local artist Jeff Levonian’s Children’s Book “Sun, Sand, Soccer, and Lake Monster?” Grant Award: $500
Over Our Head Players
"OOHPie's Fables" A children’s production featuring OOHP adaptations of several Aesop’s Fables including live musical accompaniment by Racine Symphony Orchestra musicians and educational discussions during scene changes between the audience, the actors and the musicians.
Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.overourheadplayers.org/
Samira Gdisis
"The Artist of the Book" A series of book arts conversations and workshops with regional book artists. The conversations will speak to the hand-bound book as an art form, introducing the methods and inspiration behind the artist’s work, followed by a workshop related to the book artist’s techniques. Grant Award: $1,500 http://www.blackeyedpress.com/
Smoke'd on the Water
"Origins of Hip-Hop 3" A free community event that highlights the hidden artistic culture of breakdancing, DJing, graffiti art, and emceeing that was commonplace in the late 70's and early 80's of American history. Taking place August 16, 2014. Grant Award: $1,500
2013 ArtSeed Recipients
BONK!
Monthly multi-media performances including poetry, spoken word, music, video, dance and comedy. Grant Award: $1,500
http://bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com/tag/bonk-racine/
Choral Arts Society
"Winterscape – A Pastiche of Music for the Winter Months" featuring composer and performer Malcolm Daglish, a virtuoso performer on the hammer dulcimer. Grant Award: $1,500
http://www.choralartsonline.org/
Family Power Music
Grassroots Wednesday's Open Mic & Artist Showcase is a bi-weekly event that encourages individuals of all ages and all genres to demonstrate their unique forms of expression to the community. Grant Award: $1,500
Starbuck Middle School
"Get Opera!" Provide our inner-city, public school Choir students (6th-8th Grade) at Starbuck Middle School an Artist-In-Residence encounter with a Music Professional. Grant Award: $300
Racine Urban Garden Network
RUGN offers garden plots to members of the local community. RUGN is partnering with local artists to create educational murals at two of the RUGN garden locations: 1120 Center Street and 2437 Jacato Drive.
Grant Award: $1,000
Wustum Museum
Plein Air Art Event.
A free art event to be held in the gardens at RAM’s Wustum Museum featuring local and regional artists creating a true plein air painting, done on location to capture the atmosphere of the moment.
Grant Award: $1,000