UBW has received support from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts

Written By Urban Bush Women

Ruth Foundation for the Arts announces 2025 Artist Choice Awardees

Milwaukee, WI, May 22, 2025 – The Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the fourth annual Artist Choice—the Foundation’s flagship program uniquely guided by an artist-driven nomination process. This year, the Foundation will award $1.16 million in unrestricted grants to 29 organizations across the country.

 

Bright lime green graphic with large white “Ruth Arts” logo in the background. Overlapping the logo is handwritten text in green reading, “We’re a 2025 artist choice awardee!” A celebratory visual announcement with playful script and energetic design.

 

Ruth Arts is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by the visual and performing arts. Each year, the Foundation invites a different group of artists to participate directly in its grantmaking through Artist Choice. Grounded in the belief that artists are vital decision-makers, Artist Choice invites artists from varying disciplines to recommend organizations that have deeply in uenced their creative practices and contributed to the cultural imagination at large.

Urban Bush Women

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. We do this from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community in order to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.

https://www.urbanbushwomen.org
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