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Midwestern Voices and Visions is a collaboration between the Alliance of Artists Communities and seven artists' residency programs in the Midwest. Each site offers its own way of serving its artists-in-residence, though all share a common vision that supporting living artists with time and space to create new work is essential to human progress.
Click on the names below to read more about each program:
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Red Wing, Minnesota
Art Farm
Marquette, Nebraska
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, Nebraska
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Ox-Bow
Saugatuck, Michigan
Prairie Center of the Arts
Peoria, Illinois
Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, Illinois
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John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Founded in 1967, John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a thriving visual and performing arts complex that functions as a center of cultural life in east-central Wisconsin and also attracts thousands of visitors from throughout the Midwest. John Michael Kohler Arts Center celebrated the opening of a major expansion in 1999, creating a 100,000-square-foot facility and transforming an entire city block into a welcoming, spectacular showcase for the arts. John Michael Kohler Arts Center has earned national renown for its innovative and challenging exhibitions and for the ambitious scholarly publications developed in conjunction with them. The exhibitions and related programming serve as a forum for the investigation of a wide range of contemporary American art—photography, installation works, craft-related forms, the work of self-taught artists and visionaries, communally transmitted continuing traditions, and other genres of art-making that receive limited exposure.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center is dedicated to working directly with artists and to providing opportunities for them in both the visual and performing arts. Arts/Industry is undoubtedly the most unusual ongoing collaboration between art and industry in the US, benefiting hundreds of emerging and established visual artists since its inception in 1974. Artists-in-residence work in the Kohler Co. Pottery, Iron and Brass Foundries, and Enamel Shop to develop a wide variety of work in clay, enameled cast iron, and brass, including murals and reliefs, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, and functional and sculptural forms. Participants are exposed to a body of technical knowledge that enables them to explore forms and concepts not possible in their own studios as well as new ways of thinking and working.
The Arts Center is also acclaimed for its exhibition-related residencies, collaborative projects between artists and community residents, Summer Theatre, FOOTLIGHTS performing arts subscription series and related residencies, classes for children and adults, festivals, a second-site exhibition space called Artspace, and a host of other programs.
www.jmkac.org
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