We ask for your financial support to keep our programming happening in 2024
A look back at this year at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts
Presented over 80 music events
Hosted over 40 community meetings and events
Staged over a dozen visual art exhibitions
Hosted over 100 older adult program sessions
Provided the venue for over 100 lessons and workshops
Expanded the Saturday morning improvisational sessions
Began the Manty Ellis Jazz Series
Started the Les Paul Sound Engineering program
Initiated the Riverwest Jazzfest music festival
As a 90% volunteer operated nonprofit community arts organization, we rely on you to keep this momentum going in 2024.
In 2024 we plan to:
Improve our historic music venue
Produce a music series for new genres
Initiate an innovative emerging artist series
Expand our ambitious outreach program
We do all of this for you, our diverse and engaged community.
Many thanks from us to you, our audience, for the great year!
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How We're Impacting our Community
In recent years Milwaukee's public schools, music programs have been squeezed, and in many cases gutted, by budget cuts and shifting priorities that disproportionately affect those schools with the highest concentrations of low-income students and children of color. Although MPS is currently working to increase the number of music and art teachers, this could take sometime. Our programming is meant to provide individuals with the opportunity to experience the healing power of both visual arts and music. Also provide individuals the opportunity to explore music and visual art as possible career pathways.
Music and art both encourage kids to express themselves which can lead to the development of innovation skills. These skills can set your child apart from the rest when applying to jobs and colleges. Children involved in music have been shown to have faster development in reading and language skills.
For aging adults who have age-related cognitive decline—such as Alzheimer's disease, dementia or Parkinson's disease—music has the power to actually bring back memories, slow age-related cognitive decline, and improve cognitive processing speed.