Interactive Oasis reimagines green spaces by merging public art, digital art and community. Interdisciplinary art experiences, workshops and a six-week augmented reality youth program will activate an inclusive outdoor space for connection, learning and celebration.

For nearly 25 years, Encore has created original theatre amplifying the voices of artists with disabilities. Securing a Legacy: Encore's 25 Years of Original, Dynamic Theatre for People with Disabilities will preserve the organization's work through a digital archive and recordings, ensuring their stories live on while honoring the artists, their impact, and Encore's legacy.

Maa Vue and The Dream Carrier is a theatrical concert that shares stories of resilience, identity, and heritage through the Hmong baby carrier. It offers education, mentorship, and resources to uplift Hmong creatives and businesses in Wisconsin.

DELVE (Dance Experience Lab for Vibrant Exchange) provides the opportunity for Madison-area choreographers and dancers to expand their boundaries, explore artistically, and foster new connections across genre and community.

Voices of Heritage: Celebrating Female Artists in Latino Communities will highlight works by local and global Latina visual/performance artists who reimagine traditional practices to engage deeply with narratives of culture, history, family, and gender.

A Line Meant is a community building and creative industry initiative that centers formerly incarcerated writers to lead writing circles and apprentice in managing a collaborative publishing project. The project was imagined by Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton.

TAC will establish an immersive, community-centered Artist-in-Residence Program that will provide a nurturing environment for artists who are dedicated to advancing their creative practice and passionate about community engagement. The program will launch in fall 2025.

The MKE Hip Hop Archive Project is a bold initiative to preserve the cultural legacy of Milwaukee’s Hip Hop scene as a cornerstone of the city’s identity, serving as a platform for expression, activism and entrepreneurship, especially within black and brown communities.

InSite: Choreographic Exchange commissions choreographers of color to create new site-specific works for diverse dancers, engaging new audiences through free community performances in neighborhoods that decenter Milwaukee’s downtown performing arts hub.

In Hay Rake Ballet, choreographer Sarah Butler collaborates with local farmers to orchestrate a dance performance of farm machinery in the working landscape, framing everyday agricultural practices within a classical dance aesthetic to pay homage to farming’s inherent beauty, craft and value.

Through LAB^4: A Community Curation Project, interdisciplinary teams of artists, writers, performers, community advisors, and students will each develop 8 weeks of cultural programming. Fostering intersectionality and welcoming diverse voices, this initiative restores the role of curators as caretakers.

Bad River Ojibwe Artist in Residence Program offers two Ojibwe artists an opportunity to share traditional artistic methods, and two Ojibwe artists an opportunity to share contemporary artistic methods, with the Bad River Ojibwe community, providing cultural enrichment across generations.

Academia Bembé is a community-based, public, cultural arts academy that inspires music and dance performance skills, intergenerational connection and cultural identity exploration through Afro-Latino musical culture.

Cactus+ Accessibility Initiative centers those we haven't been able to serve or host, braiding infrastructure improvements into artist resourcing and community programming. Think: ramp to the front door, multimedia residency, an expansive understanding of accessibility, skill shares and beyond.

Featuring Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings (Bad River Ojibwe), Joe Rainey Sr. (Red Lake Ojibwe), S. Carey, and Finn Ryan—Bizhiki: Unbound will develop and tour a multidisciplinary music and video performance, engaging audiences throughout Wisconsin about contemporary Ojibwe culture.

GEEX continues Wisconsin’s glass art history by broadening and redefining the medium’s story through GEEX Shorts—bite-sized videos of BIPOC and queer artists sharing their knowledge and creative practice—to expand a crucial archive and new paradigm of representation.

Hmoob Zaj Dab Neeg aka The Hmong Story aims to promote inclusivity within the SEA community by addressing cultural preservation. We will focus on preserving Hmong culture & language through programs, including language classes, traditional dance, & music lessons using cultural experts.

Wažookį Hosto (Family Gathers) creates new artistic and cultural learning opportunities by offering seasonal arts and traditional skills workshops with Ho-Chunk community members and creates teaching resources that amplify Ho-Chunk ingenuity for multiple audiences.

Disability Theater – Expanding the Canon is a multi-year initiative that will result in the creation of up to 20 new plays focusing on representation, community and a commitment to expanding the theater canon to include Disabled Actors and Artists on and off stage. Essentially, creating art that reflects our community.

The (W)here in the World Dance Festival invites choreographers from five unique world dance traditions both to present work and to collaborate across genres. Set for spring 2025, the festival presents both work that upholds cultural traditions and traverses those boundaries.