WaterMarks is an initiative to develop a city-wide network of participatory engagement, to help us all to better understand the significance of water in our everyday lives.
What is WaterMarks?
WaterMarks empowers artists, scientists, and community members to take action respecting the vital role of water to people across Milwaukee neighborhoods.
What are the parts?
Our toolkit describes how community partners can participate: Walks, Workshops, Artist Projects, Voices Interviews, Activation Events & Neighborhood WaterMarkers.
Our initiative connects an evolving ensemble of partners: artists, nonprofit organizations, water professionals, academics, community groups, and ordinary people.
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NSF 75th Anniversary Event
Featured Content
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El Paseo al Agua
Artist, Sarah Gail Luther, worked with students at Bruce Guadalupe School in Walker’s Point, environmental historian Steve Servais, and nonprofit organization Harbor District, Inc. to develop and deploy Spanish-language street signs along E. Greenfield Avenue welcoming all Milwaukeeans to the water’s edge. Check out the project on the page, then wander Greenfield Avenue as you make your way to Harbor View Plaza.
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Newsletter Archive
Check out our previous newsletters in our archive! See what we have been up to and what some of our future plans are. The newsletter also features special highlights on local artists, scientists, residents, and neighborhoods!
WaterMarks Artist Application
January 15
We are seeking an artist (of any discipline -- visual or performance based!) to collaborate with local artist and West Basin neighbor, Wyethe Smallish, to co-lead two community walks and co-create a final public art work.
ARTIST COMPENSATION: $15,000 total, including materials, to be split between the two artists at their discretion and guidance of the WaterMarks team.
Community Events Calendar
Try our Water Atlas “Field Guide” Passport Puzzle
Header film credit: Wes Tank | TankThink Media