The 2011 cycle of the Suitcase Export Fund is now open. The funds in the first subcycle have been expended. The fund will reopen on June 1st. See below for links to information on past awardees.

Download 2011 application here.

The Bradley Family Foundation, in collaboration with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation (GMF), announces the ninth funding cycle of the GMF’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Suitcase Export Fund for Individual Artists. The ninth cycle (December 2011-November 2012) has been divided into two parts to ensure that funds remain available to applicants throughout the year.

Created to help visual artists with the cost of exhibiting their work outside the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington), the Fund is designed to provide greater visibility for individual artists and their work as well as for greater Milwaukee. To date, the Fund has supported a diverse group of 132 individual artists and six artist collectives exhibiting throughout North America, and in Europe, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia. The awardees, who have received a total of $82,500 in grants, work in a variety of media, from film to ceramics, and include well-established artists as well as those at the start of their careers. A special effort has been made to support Nohl Fellows as they exhibit work made during their fellowship year.

The Suitcase Export Fund is open to practicing artists residing within the four-county area who want to export their work beyond that area for public display. Priority is given to artists with exhibitions outside of Wisconsin. In this cycle, beginning December 1, 2011, there is a total of $10,000 to disburse to visual artists. Requests will be considered in the order received. There is no application deadline, but artists must apply prior to the opening of their exhibition or screening.

The Fund provides support in three areas:
• transportation of the work (packing/shipping/insurance)
• transportation of the artist
• promotion in those cases where the artist is required to provide their own promotion
The maximum grant available to an individual is $1,000.

This cycle has been divided into two parts:
• Beginning December 1, 2011, requests for exhibitions/screenings commencing between December 2011 and November 2012 will be considered periodically until a total of $5,000 has been expended.

• Beginning June 1, 2011, requests for exhibitions/screenings commencing between June 2012 and November 2012 will be considered periodically until a total of $5,000 has been expended.

The Fund contributes to the creative health of the region by supporting local artists at all career stages, from the emerging to the established; alleviating some of the financial burden faced by artists who want to exhibit their work at a distance; and by getting the work of Milwaukee artists out into the world. The support provided for artist transportation has enabled artists to be on site to install work--important to most artists and indispensable to those working in the areas of installation and site-specific art. The opportunity to attend openings, where artists can meet with collectors and distributors and make critical connections with gallery owners, is consistently cited as a significant benefit. The Fund also creates opportunities to expose work in new regions and to new audiences, to meet other artists and see their work, to sell work, and to plan new projects. Although the Fund does not directly support residencies or ancillary activities, awardees have taken full advantage of opportunities to make new work, deliver gallery talks, and participate in symposia at their exhibition sites. In 2010, artists stretched their travel grants by arranging simultaneous exhibitions and screenings at other venues, and several worked actively to establish international exchanges that would bring artists to Milwaukee and create opportunities abroad for Milwaukee students and artists.

For further information:
Polly Morris
pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org

Awardees

ABOUT THE 2010 AWARDEES

Winter Cycle
Nicole Brown
Santiago Cucullu
Faythe Levine
Kim Miller
Will Pergl
John Ruebartsch
Valorie Schleicher
Sonja Thomsen
Christopher Willey

Summer Cycle
Katherine A. Balsley
Peter Barrickman & Xav Leplae
Jordan Brethauer
Hans Gindlesberger
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Mark Mulhern
Kristopher Pollard
Melissa Wagner-Lawler
Rina Yoon
Sarah Zamecnik

In its eighth cycle, the Fund provided assistance with shipping, travel and promotion to eighteen individual artists and one collaborative group. These artists—six of them past Nohl Fellows— work in a range of media. Their exhibitions took them to Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon and Central Wisconsin, as well as to China, France, Italy, Korea, South Africa and Thailand.

For information on the 2010 awardees please click here, here, and here.

PAST AWARDEES

2009
Kyoung Ae Cho
Matt Cipov
Bobby Ciraldo and Andrew Swant
Michael Davidson
Chris Davis-Benavides
Zeph Farmby
Nicholas Grider
Karen Gunderman
Nicholas Lampert
Frankie Latina
Angela Laughingheart
Colin Matthes
Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
Julie Murray
Greg J. Schoeneck
Nathaniel Stern
Fred Stonehouse
Jim Zwadlo

2008
Marna Goldstein Brauner
James Charles
Cecelia Condit
Santiago Cucullu
Lawrence D’Attilio
Paul Druecke
Bridget Griffith Evans
Gary John Gresl
Ariana Huggett
Hai-Chi Jihn
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Annie Killelea
Kay Knight
Faythe Levine
Dan Ollman
Gina Rymarcsuk
Roy Staab
Marcelino Stuhmer
Sonja Thomsen
Lynn Tomaszewski
Christina West

2007
Peter Barrickman
Beth Bojarski
Brent Budsberg and Shana McCaw
Paul Calhoun
Brent Coughenour
Karen Gunderman
Juliet Jaeger
Jeremy Lundquist
Chris Miller and Mark Winter
Kim Miller
Josie Osborne
Kendall Polster
Colette Odya Smith
Fred Stonehouse

2006
Beki Borman
Brian Carlson
Kyoung Ae Cho
Lawrence D’Attilio
Paul Druecke
Sonji Hunt
Laura Ibbotson
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Shelby Keefe
Gregory Klassen
Katie Musolff
John Riepenhoff
Richard Taylor
Steven Wetzel
Christopher Willey

2005
William Andersen
Greg DuMonthier
Nicholas Frank
Jean Roberts Guequierre
Steve Hough
Darryl Jensen
Frankie Martin
Colin Matthes
Jim Muraco
Micaela O’Herlihy
Josie Osborne
Kristopher Pollard
Sonja Thomsen
Lynn Tomaszewski
Fahimeh Vahdat
White Box Painters
Jason Yi

2004
Paul Amitai
Marina Broere
Paul Calhoun
Rob Danielson
Raoul Deal
Joan Dobkin
Mark Escribano
Bridget Griffith Evans
Kristin Gjerdset
Gary John Gresl
Douglas Holst
Richard Knight
Faythe Levine
Laurence P. Rathsack
Liz Smith
Fred Stonehouse
Marc Tasman
Della Wells
Stephen Wetzel

2003
William J. Andersen
Stephanie Barber
Travis Graves
Karen Gunderman
Steve Hough
Ariana Huggett
Xav Leplae
Frankie Martin
Nate Page
Mat Rappaport
Roy Staab
Fred Stonehouse
William A. Suys, Jr.
Rina Yoon