For the past two years, The Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee, has provided special funding that allows ArtsWave to “go broad” and “go deep” in its support of arts activities in different locations across the region. Thanks to their support of "ArtsWave Presents", we have supported 79 events at arts centers, recreation centers, libraries, and college campuses located in Batavia, Loveland, Middletown, Fairfield, Springfield Township, Milford, Lebanon, Oxford, Warren County and across Northern Kentucky. These events featured an array of our arts partners, including The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theatre, Madcap Puppets, and Visionaries and Voices, among others.

In addition, as part of an evolving vision for aligning ArtsWave’s resources even more intentionally with other community resources and priorities, funding from The Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts allowed us to award grants to the five Place Matters neighborhoods supported by LISC. Performances and activities conducted by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Black Theater, Bi-Okoto, Kentucky Symphony, Cincinnati Opera, Elementz, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Cincinnati Children’s Theater, among others, have or will take place during 2014 variously in Price Hill, Walnut Hills, Avondale, Madisonville and Covington.  

Thank you, The Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee, for enabling ArtsWave to be “in action” across the region and “in residence” in five distinctive neighborhoods!