Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 6/30/1979

Funding Totals

$400,000.00 (approved)
$400,000.00 (awarded)


The Milwaukee Humanities Program

FAIN: GP-10551-78

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153)
F. Xavier Baron (Project Director: January 1978 to present)

To increase local public awareness about existing and new ideas and techniques in cultural and humanities programming in Milwaukee, by sponsoring the Milwaukee Humanities Directory, the Milwaukee Humanities Newsletter and Broadsheet, and the Milwaukee Humanities Conference as well as five pilot projects involving exhibits, film, radio, and discussions. Approximately 1500 people will be reached directly by the project, and another 850,000 will read, watch, or listen to various presentations of the Program.