Arts of Life to receive $50,000 grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts

Ruth Foundation for the Arts Core Grants

Arts of Life is thrilled to have been selected for a $50,000 general operating grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

This grant is a part of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts)’s Core Grant Program. Each year, a relevant theme frames the grant questions. In 2022, the program was shaped by three organizing categories: how artists live, make, and are remembered. For 2023, organizations were asked: What can be transformed when we ask what we want to keep, what we can lose, and what we want to grow?

Thank you to the Ruth Arts staff and grant program readers for this investment in our artists. We congratulate our fellow Ruth Arts Fall 2023 Grant Cycle Recipients:

Core Grant

 

ABOUT THE RUTH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

The Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is a new grantmaker based in the Midwest and dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by visual arts, performing arts, and arts education. Based in Milwaukee and national in scope, the Foundation reflects the culture and spirit of the Midwest, which long inspired its namesake and benefactor Ruth DeYoung Kohler II. Led by Executive Director Karen Patterson, as well as Program Directors Kim Nguyen and Rachel Reichert, the Foundation is a responsive and adventurous new force in the realm of arts philanthropy.

ABOUT RUTH DEYOUNG KOHLER II

A lifetime supporter of the arts, Ruth DeYoung Kohler II (1941-2020) was deeply committed to artists and consequently, broke down hierarchies and categories within the art world to center artists, support communities, and engage with overlooked art forms. She made significant contributions to the arts across the U.S., including serving as Chairman and member of the Wisconsin Arts Board, acting as a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Organization panel member and past site evaluator, as founder of the Preservation Committee of Kohler Foundation, Inc., and Director of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for more than forty years.

Among the many awards and honors Ruth received are the Governor’s Award for the Arts, Wisconsin; Visionary Award, American Craft Museum; Visionary Leadership Award, Center for Intuitive and Outside Art; Visionary Lifetime Achievement Award, Museum of Art and Design; and honorary doctorates from various institutions of higher learning.

She believed passionately that the arts reveal who we are as a people: past, present and future. She promoted equitable and inclusive access to the arts in her local community, her home state of Wisconsin, and on national and international levels.

Partners

This program is partially funded by support from the following organizations (Full Community Partners list here):