Last But Not Least

15.11.2024

Round 5 is the final grant awards round for the Ulrike Michal Foundation for the Arts.

The foundation was established in late 2019 by three friends of Ulrike Michal, a Swiss vet who made her home in Cheshire and who in her free time pursued her love of art – at home, as a member of the Liver Sketching Club (the oldest artists’ club in Liverpool), and as part-time fine arts undergraduate at Bangor University in Gwynedd, north Wales.

The goal of the Ulrike Michal Foundation has been to “promote, encourage and extend the love, appreciation, enjoyment, understanding and practice of fine, decorative and applied arts among people of all ages through experiences at museums, art galleries, historic properties and in the community at large, both as individuals and communally, as participants and spectators.”

This goal has been achieved through making grants with funding from the estate of Ulrike Michal. The aim has been to use that money for the benefit of others in an area of life - fine art, drawing and painting - that meant so much to Ulrike, both when she was growing up in Basel, Switzerland, and in adult life when she made her home in Cheshire.

In Round 5, the Foundation is able to offer: 

• Four grants, each up to £3,000; and
  

• Four grants, each for between £3,001 and £5,000 
  

for projects that “promote, encourage and extend the love, appreciation, enjoyment, understanding and practice of fine, decorative and applied arts among people of all ages through experiences at museums, art galleries, historic properties and in the community at large, both as individuals and communally, as participants and spectators.”  

The deadline for Round 5 grant application is December 20th 2024.

The Trustees were able to make nine awards at Round 4 and below can be found updates on just a few of the projects that were awarded grants earlier this year.

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