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Press Release
For Immediate Release
January 22, 2003
AWE CONTACT:
Lisa Becker
Executive Director
(414) 933-3877
Barbara Manger
(414) 964-6756
Milwaukee Arts Organization to Receive Governor’s Award
MILWAUKEE, WI – Artists Working in Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing arts enrichment experiences to under-served youth in Milwaukee, will be honored November 14 at the 22nd annual presentation of the Governor’s Awards in Support of the Arts. Governor Scott and Laurie McCallum will host the ceremony at the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison. Milwaukee Architect Charles Engberg, a 1998 Governors Award recipient, will preside as honorary chair.
Receiving awards will be, in the “Arts Organization” category, Artists Working in Education, Inc. of Milwaukee, with Barbara Manger Board President; and Pecatonica Educational Charitable Foundation, Inc./Grandview Folk Art Site of Hollandale, Barb Kehrein, President; in the “Individual Leadership” category, Marianne and Sheldon Lubar of Milwaukee, and Don and Kate Wilson of Brookfield. The award presentation is organized each year by the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts, headed by Jeffrey B. Bartell. The ceremony is sponsored by Alliant Energy Corporation.
Artists Working in Education, Inc., is being recognized for building a program offering free arts learning experiences in parks and schools for Milwaukee children, ages 4 to 14. Reductions in funding, nationally and locally, in the fields of both art and education motivated Barbara Manger to convene a group of artists and educators in 1998 to fill the void. AWE developed two main initiatives to meet this lack of visual arts education for children in Milwaukee: The Truck Studio, a program providing free art classes for at-risk children in inner city parks and neighborhood centers; and the School Studio artist-in-residence program, sponsoring artists to work with children on permanent installation projects in Milwaukee area schools.
Each award recipient will receive a personalized citation signed by the governor and a gift of art. The Governor’s Awards in Support of the Arts ceremony began in 1980 to encourage support of the arts throughout Wisconsin. In twenty-two years the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts has honored more than 100 businesses, individuals and organizations whose contributions to the vitality of the arts in local communities or statewide deserves recognition.
The Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts is a nonprofit public organization supported solely by membership dues and contributions. For more information contact: Jeffrey Bartell, Chairman, Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts (608/283-2432) or Kristi Williams, Executive Director (608/839-4785).
Artists Working in Education, Inc. (AWE) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide youth in the Milwaukee area with arts enrichment programs to enhance human potential, advance learning and cultivate community.
AWE’s programs are supported in part by The Windhover Foundation, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin, Inc., Matrix Foundation, City of Milwaukee Arts Board, Wisconsin Arts Board, Forest County Potawatomi Community Foundation, Herbert H. Kohl Charities, Jewish Community Foundation of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Manpower, Target, Orion Corporation and Meridian Industries Inc. For more information contact Lisa Becker, AWE Executive Director, (414) 933-3877 or Barbara Manger, AWE Board President, (414) 964-6756.
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