Several UW-Milwaukee faculty members recently received good news about grant funding for projects.
Theatre Professor Anne Basting’s TimeSlips, a nonprofit that brings creativity into care relationships, received an NEA ArtWorks grant to share the stories and imaginations of people across Wisconsin.
The grant will support live performance and visual/sound installations inspired by stories created by people with dementia. With the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, TimeSlips will train nursing home staff in improvisational storytelling techniques. Artists and trainees will work with people in nursing homes to create original stories and record participants reading their favorite story.
Based on these recordings, professional artists will create soundscapes for public radio broadcast, and books of the stories and images that inspired them will be exhibited in libraries across the state. A performance will be scheduled for a statewide Alzheimer’s disease conference.
“Identifying Household Wealth Effects,” a project of Co-Principal Investigators Niloy Bose and Antu Murshid (Department of Economics) received funding from the National Science Foundation economics program. The grant totals $98,500, with $32,600 of indirect funding for the department, college, and university.
