We are very excited to announce that Milwaukee Film is one of the inaugrual recipients of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts grant! This new foundation is supported by a bequest from the late Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, and expects to award grants totaling more than $17 million annually. We're a part of the first class of Ruth Arts grantees — an initial round of funding that precedes the regular giving cycles that the organization will embark upon later this year — one of 78 nonprofit arts
organizations that have been awarded a total of $1.25 million in funding. Individual grants range from $10,000 to $50,000 each.
Built from the inspiration and bequest of Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, a lifelong advocate for the midwest’s artistic community, Ruth Arts embraces the ethos of the region while operating at a national scale. The organizations funded in this initial round of grantmaking come from 29 states and range widely in size. In keeping with the spirit of Ruth Arts, which places a particular emphasis on the support of creativity in all its forms, with a focus on the unconventional and exciting, grantees
were not confined to particular fields or genres of work, and span a broad spectrum of culture-making. Ruth Arts launches with a unique artist-driven nomination process for this initial round of grants, which was guided by a group of nearly 50 artists. These artists, drawn from across the country and at all stages of their careers, were asked to propose organizations they felt had deeply influenced their own engagement with art, presented visionary community programming, and connected deeply
with artists’ processes.
Posted by: Tom Fuchs