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Wisconsin Arts Board panel reviews 11 Creation & Presentation grant applications; accessibility responses absent
Summary
An advisory panel for the Wisconsin Arts Board reviewed 11 Creation & Presentation grant applications, praising several programs while flagging that none of the applicants completed the new accessibility self‑assessment required for state‑funded organizations. Panel recommendations will go to the full board for a December vote.
Lashandra Vernon, chair of the advisory panel and a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board, convened a remote review on behalf of the Arts Board to evaluate 11 Creation & Presentation grant applications from organizations across the state.
Panelists and staff ran the applications through the board’s four review criteria — artistic/educational/cultural value; organizational and financial management; community participation and accessibility; and planning, evaluation and documentation — and assigned individual scores on a 1–100 scale that staff will average and forward to the full board.
"Applicants will be notified of grant decisions by mid December," Vernon said during the meeting. The chair also reminded panelists of the conflict‑of‑interest and appeals procedures and that staff would convert panel recommendations into the board’s December agenda.
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