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24 • Milwaukee County Post • October 17, 2014 Post Staff MILWAUKEE — Using art to explore their perception of home, nearly 2,000 Milwaukee students will participate in spe- cial artist residencies in 2014-15 through Arts@Large with support from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund. Students in K3 through 12th grade at five Milwaukee Public Schools will be working with local artists to develop art exhibitions and performances informed by their research on the cultural and racial implica- tions of Milwaukee's housing history. Participating schools include 81st Street School, Bruce Elementary School, Hampton Elementary School, Hayes Bilingual School and Washington High School. The project received a $25,000 grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, with $15,000 provided through its Nohl Fund, $8,300 from its Krellwitz Fund and $1,700 from its Jean Hutchinson Arts Fund. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has awarded Arts@Large more than $250,000 in grants for numerous projects since 2005. Other funded projects were: Artists Working in Education: $12,000 to support a series of eight visual arts and language workshops at each branch of the Milwaukee Public Library system based on the successful model of AWE's Truck Studio, the organization's mobile art program. Express Yourself Milwaukee: $12,000 for a partnership with ArtWorks Milwaukee on an art-making and job readiness project. Through the joint program designed to build strong work ethic and simulate a job experi- ence, 18 teens will participate in internships with professional artists while also gaining an opportunity to mentor younger youths from Mary McLeod Bethune Academy. La Casa de Esperanza: $12,000 to sup- port an opportunity for 30 youths to work with professional artist Lucia Mendoza to create two murals and 10 paintings. The art will be placed in nonprofit agencies through- out Waukesha, which will also offer volun- teer opportunities to participating students. Latino Arts: $12,000 for the organiza- tion's 2014-15 exhibition season, featuring art produced during the four-year Advancing Literacy and Math through Art program, which engaged students from Bruce Guadalupe Community School and artists from the UWM Peck School of the Arts. Latino Arts' exhibition season will also include residencies by Milwaukee artists Pacia Sallomi and Vivian Vivas. TRUE Skool: $12,000 to support the visu- al arts component of TRUE Skool's Urban Arts Program, through which teen partici- pants receive mentoring in both art-making and the business side of the arts. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation: $12,000 supporting Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene, an exhibition and education- al project bringing together the work of nine contemporary artists whose art practice explores the impact of human industry on the earth. The project will be administered by INOVA, UWM's Institute of Visual Arts. Diverse & Resilient: $10,000 to support expansion of an artist-in-residence program serving LGBT youths and adults in Milwaukee. Two to three local artists will work with approximately 80 participants drawn from Milwaukee schools and nonprof- it organizations. Grand Avenue Club: $10,000 to support mentoring for adults with mental illness par- ticipating in the club's arts programming. The project includes creation of a website for promoting the art of members and teach- ing entrepreneurial skills. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design: $10,000 toward an exhibition titled "Engendered" that will feature the work of 25 local, regional, national and international artists exploring the concept of personal and gender identity, to be curated by Niki Johnson, MIAD faculty member and the Pfister Hotel's artist-in-residence. An educa- tional component includes panel discus- sions, artist talks and workshops. Walker's Point Center for the Arts: $10,000 in support of culturally diverse art exhibitions, as well as arts education pro- grams that engage more than 11,000 youths and adults on site and 10,000 individuals off- site at schools, parks and service organiza- tions. Ruach: $8,000 to help expand Project: VITAL, a visual arts initiative imbued with positive values and targeting new popula- tions in schools in need of external arts pro- gramming. About 150 students are projected to participate in visual arts residencies. Our Next Generation: $5,000 supporting the creation of murals, mosaics and other outdoor art to personalize the new play- ground on the organization's grounds. Approximately 300 students are expected to contribute artistically to the project, which also includes opportunities to design interi- or art for the space. As part of its project, There's no Place Like Home: Milwaukee, Arts@Large is col- laborating with community partners to institute a public discussion series on issues related to homelessness, the effect of segre- gation on housing in Milwaukee, and oppor- tunities and strategies related to building healthy neighborhoods. The project will culminate with art exhi- bitions in conjunction with Milwaukee's Gallery Night, to be held April 25 and April 26, 2015, which will be free to the public at the organization's Gallery@Large space, 908 S. Fifth St. Greater Milwaukee Foundation supports 13 projects Layton Hearing Professionals -who are we? 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