Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 2024

Out of the Suitcase: An Exhibit of Awardees from the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Export Fund

08/05/24 – 09/21/24

Lynden Sculpture Garden, with funding from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and Joy Engine, administers the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Export Fund for Individual Artists. Created to help visual artists with the cost of exhibiting their work outside the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington), the Fund is designed to provide greater visibility for individual artists and their work as well as sending art from Milwaukee outside our region. To date, the Fund has supported a diverse group of 358 individual artists and 22 collectives for a total of 404 artists who have exhibited their work throughout North America, and in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Asia. The awardees work in a variety of media, from film to ceramics. They include well-established artists as well as those at the start of their careers.

The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design is proud to present a special iteration of its biennial Suitcase Fund exhibition. This year’s showcase features not only awardees from the current cycle, but also those recognized in the previous cycle due to the pandemic’s pause on the exhibition in 2019. This expanded exhibition offers a unique survey of visual artists from the region, and it highlights the diversity and depth of talent creating new work in the Milwaukee area.