The Milwaukee Arts Board has opened its third cycle of its funds devoted to the conservation of public art in the City of Milwaukee. This cycle will contain $10,000 in grants available in increments of $1,000.
The goal of the fund is to preserve that part of the city’s cultural and civic heritage embodied in its public art. The fund supports projects the conservation of works that are of historical, cultural and aesthetic importance to the city.
Qualifying works must be fully accessible to the public.
In previous years, The Women’s Club of Wisconsin Foundation used a Milwaukee Arts board grant to leverage additional funding to complete a site plan, add limestone boulders, lighting and paving to the restoration of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “The Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil,” located on the median in the 800 block of East Kilbourn Avenue.
The guidelines and application will become available at http://city.milwaukee.gov/MAB on July 2, 2012. Applications will be due July 31, 2012.
