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Thursday, 11 August 2011, we salute nonprofit Madison. So many great organizations, so little time to show our appreciation.
For more information visit http://www.nonprofit-day.org/
Multicultural Center Workshops, Madison, WI, June 8 & 22, July 6 & 20, 2011
The purpose of PROJECT GIRL is to help girls become literate in all media forms—TV, internet, movies, magazines, newspapers, billboards, books, product labels, and music. At the heart of PROJECT GIRL is the belief that becoming media literate helps girls learn to raise the right questions about what they're watching, reading or listening to. It teaches the ability to think for oneself which is the best defense.
Cost: Free!
Time: 4:30– 6:30
Dates: Workshops will take place every other Wednesday: 5/25, 6/8, 6/22, 7/6, 7/20.
Location:
Catholic Multicultural Center
1862 Beld Street
Madison, WI 53713
Phone: 608-661-3512
See www.projectgirl.org
Contact Kelly kpsnider@charter.net or 608-576-2847
Drama Workshop, Madison, WI, June 1, 2011
Project Girl is bringing the DRAMA!
Un-Mediafy Your Life!!! Come experience this cool drama-based workshop for girls. Project Girl is hosting a special workshop to give girls the some great tools for leadership.
This Project Girl workshop gives you the opportunity to try your hand at the dramatic, hang out with other girls, make new friends and take what you've learned about leadership back to your friends at your school.
This Project Girl workshop will begin a process of girl-led activism! This is a new workshop being offered by Project Girl bringing you one of Madison's leading women in Community Theater, Liz Foster-Shaner!
Cost: $8 (scholarships are available)
Time: 3:30 – 5:30
Dates: Workshop will take place on Wednesday: June 1st
Location:
Glitter Workshop
6138 Mineral Point Rd. Madison, WI
(608) 238-3264
Let's learn to make drama a good thing!
To sign up, contact Emily Keown, at ekeown@edgewood.edu or call
SIGN UP SOON!! Limited to 15 girls.
Additional info: http://keownstudio.wordpress.com/And http://www.projectgirl.org/
Project Girl Workshops
Jefferson Middle School, Madison, Wisconsin, Spring 2011 contact kpsnider@charter.net
Boys and Girls club, Spring 2011 contact kpsnider@charter.net
Multi cultural center, Madison, Wisconsin, Spring/Summer 2011 kpsnider@charter.net
Walbridge School, Madison, Wisconsin www.walbridgeschool.com
Past Events
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CROSSING THE LINE: Defending Wisconsin's Environmental Commons Debut, April 19, 2011
Project Girl co-founders debut CROSSING THE LINE: Defending Wisconsin's Environmental Commons, a new short film produced in collaboration with Midwest Environmental Advocates celebrating the power of people standing together against powerful interests for the public good.
American Association of University Women Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, April 13, 2011
Project Girl co-founders will be the featured speakers at the April meeting of the American Association of University Women. AAUW is dedicated to advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
Womenade Madison, Madison, WI, April 13, 2011
WomenAde Supporters,
Greetings! We hope that you have had a good start to 2011 and are enjoying the beautiful spring sunshine. WomenAde is towards the end of our season and we are proud to announce that we have raised close to $8,000 at our first three events! This couldn't have happened with your attendance, generosity and support.
Our next fundraiser will be held on Wednesday, April 13 and we will be supporting Project Girl. This organization is a ground-breaking girl-led, arts-based initiative created to enable girls to become better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. In other words, to become more media literate.
Please bring as many friends, family members and co-workers as you can- let's work together to support this wonderful organization!
Your WomenAde Hostesses,
| Jennifer Burian | Marcia Kraus |
| Hathaway Dilba | Jane Salinger |
| Beth Eaves | Martha Taylor |
| Linda Hughes | Martha Vukelich Austin |
| Biz Johnson | Betsy Wallman |
Event Details:
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 13, 5:30-7:30
Organization: Project Girl Click here to visit their website.
Location: Edenfred, 6048 S Highlands Ave. Click here to see a map of this location. Due to the limited availability of parking at Edenfred, parking on the street is recommended. For the safety of our guests, you will be walked to your car with a flashlight at the end of the program.
What to Bring: A minimum $25 donation (cash or check) for Project Girl and a small dish to pass. Wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.
If you are unable to attend and would like to make a donation to Project Girl on behalf of WomenAde, please mail a check to Hathaway Dilba, 5510 Tolman Terrace, Madison, WI.
Event Schedule: Our format is simple. We gather to socialize at 5:30 and enjoy a small presentation from our sponsored organization at 6:15. After that, dessert!
Please know that you can arrive at anytime during the event.
RSVP: None needed- Please help us support Project Girl and bring as many friends as you can!
For more information on WomenAde, please email madisonwomenade@yahoo.com.
Writers Writing About: Self-Image and Empowerment, Mount Mary College, October 20, 2010
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Writers Writing About: Self-Image and Empowerment
A panel discussion featuring: Kelly Parks Snider • Amanda Angel • Philip Chard
Wednesday, Oct 20th
Helfaer Hall
Mount Mary College
Free and open to the public, reservations required
This event features three guests drawn to writing with a personal message to heal and educate. Kelly Parks Snider works with schools to educate adolescents about the power of the media to manipulate self-image, and will begin her presentation with video clips of her work. Amanda Angel will talk about empowering families to open adoptions for the sake of children. Philip Chard will discuss the healing that comes from re-connecting to our environment. The discussion will have special appeal for counselors, teachers and parents.
Spark Summit - Challenging the Sexualization of Girls, Hunter College, NYC, October 22, 2010
ProjectGirl Bookstore Event, Madison, WI, October 22, 2010
Re-claming Girlhood: Understanding, supporting, and taking action & ProjectGirl Art Exhibit, La Crosse, WI, October 28, 2010
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Re-claming Girlhood: Understanding, supporting, and taking action
ProjectGirl Art Exhibit
Thursday, Oct 28th 8:30am-5:00pm
Lunda Center
Western Technical College
La Crosse, WI
Wisconsin Art Education Association Fall Conference, La Crosse, WI, October 28-29, 2010
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La Crosse Center
300 2nd Ave South
La Crosse, WI
(South Entrance)
Join us for the 2010 60th Anniversary Wisconsin Art Education Association (WAEA) Fall Conference to rejuvenate your artistic spirit! You will have the opportunity to participate in workshops, gallery tours, discover ways to enhance your instructional strategies and connect with other professionals in the field of art education. Visit the WAEA website to prepare yourself for attending the conference:
The conference will begin with breakfast to nourish our bodies and the WAEA Conference Team has created a schedule of art educational events to feed your visual art education soul. WAEA believes the 2010 Fall Conference, CONFLUENCE: Where People Come Together • Where Ideas Flow Freely, is another place to collectively merge our talents, interests and research to feel supported in our everyday struggle to show our students how powerful a life that includes Art can be.
2010 Art Exhibition Schedule Update
March 1, 2010 – April 1, 2010
Estrella Mountain Community College
3000 North Dysart Road
Avondale, AZ 85392
623.935.8000
www.estrellamountain.edu
May 2010 - August 2010
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
University Gallery
1725 State Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
608.785.8829
www.uwlax.edu
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training , Community Workshop and Art Exhibit, Estrella Mountain Community College, March 6, 2010
Saturday, March 6th
8:30-11:30 AM
Center for Teaching and Learning
Estrella Mountain Community College
Due to space limitation, RSVP is required (olga.tsoudis@estrellamountain.edu or jennifer.means@estrellamountain.edu)
Art Exhibit will be on campus from March 1-March 31st, open to the public
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day arts-based workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, and concerned parents, high school girls, and college students interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls.
This training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl's unique arts based media literacy curriculum. This workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in a unique reflective and expressive art experience, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's arts-based curriculum.
It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.
Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.
This project is funded by the Estrella Mountain Community College Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Studies Division, Arts, Languages and Composition Division, International and Intercultural Education, and Fine Arts.
Creating Awareness, Art and Action: Project Girl Workshop, UW-La Crosse, January 22, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
$40 (non-credit registration only)
$20 (UW-L students and those individuals registered for graduate credit)
Graduate Credit option available
1-5 p.m.
Cleary Alumni & Friends Center, UW-L
Workshop also offered in a morning session on a limited basis:
7:45-11 a.m. (call 608.785.6508 or langaard.kare@uwlax.edu)
202 Center for the Arts, UW-La Crosse
Described as a media self-defense course for pre-teens and teens and a vaccination against the harmful messages of advertisement and other media, Project Girl uses arts-based projects that empower girls to become active interpreters of mass and commercial culture. This hands-on workshop provides a roadmap to this nationally recognized community art program.
Learners will:
- Participate in a uniquely reflective and expressive art experience
- Learn facilitation skills to explore the following with adolescent girls:
- media literacy
- stereotypes and labeling
- body image and the beauty myth
- consumerism
- real girl power
- Plan projects within your school, university and community setting
Participants are invited to exhibit their students' work in the Wisconsin Art Education Association fall conference at UW-L. www.wiarted.org
About the Presenters:
Kelly Parks Snider (visual artist) and Jane Bartell (video producer) are the co-creators of Project Girl, founded in 2006. Bio...
PROJECT GIRL, an arts-based program helps adolescent girls increase their awareness about the influences and impacts of commercial media as it defines beauty and success. The PROJECT GIRL EXHIBITION, which was the culmination of a two-year exploration of the effects of contemporary media on young teens' live and attitudes, debuted in spring 2007 at Edgewood College in Madison. The PROJECT GIRL EXHIBITION and related workshops have traveled to several Art Centers. The exhibition and workshops are currently scheduled in Appleton, Madison, La Crosse, Sioux City, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois.
Registration Options:
NON-CREDIT
CREDIT
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training, Madison, WI, Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday November 14
Edgewood College Predolin Center, Room 116
Registration: 8:45am-9:00am, Workshop: 9:00am-1:30pm
Cost: $30.00 donation (Scholarships available, teens attend free of charge)
Seats are filling fast! RSVP today!
Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. This half-day training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl’s unique media literacy curriculum.
The workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in interactive role playing, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl’s curriculum.
It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they’ve never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.
Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.
2009 WAEA FALL CONFERENCE, Milwaukee, WI, October 29-30, 2009
Project Girl will be presenting
2009 WAEA FALL CONFERENCE will be held at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design & the Milwaukee Art Museum. October 29 - 30, 2009
Brochure for Fall Conference at MIAD click here (large file please wait for download)
Event sponsored by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, Chicago, IL, September 18, 2009
Event sponsored by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
September 18th, 2009
9am to 1pm
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Hall
3241 S. Federal St.
Contact Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net
An Invitation & Call to Action - Chicago, IL - May 13th, 2009
An Invitation & Call to Action
Wednesday, May 13th
37 S. Wabash Avenue, Room 404
10:00AM-12:00PM
Project Girl is planning its Chicago mobilization.
Project Girl is bringing together independent thinkers throughout the Chicago area to help formulate a community-based action plan. Your involvement is crucial.
It is essential that young people everywhere become educated, supported, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl’s proven arts-based approach gives kids the critical tools to look at their contemporary culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.
Join us for a planning session hosted at the Chicago Art Institute.
Project Girl uses art to unite us—to bring us together to work towards change. Join us!
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training, Madison, WI - May 16, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Registration: 8:45am-9:00am
Workshop: 9:00am to 1:30pm
Cost: $30.00 Donation (Scholarships available, teens attend free of charge)
Edgewood College
Predolin Humanities center (room 116)
1000 Edgewood College Drive • Madison, Wisconsin 53711
Space Limited—RSVP: Kelly Parks Snider, Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. This half-day training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl's unique media literacy curriculum.
The workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in interactive role playing, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's curriculum.
It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.
Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.
Project Girl Art Exhibition & Conference, Omaha, NE, Spring, 2009
Marian High School
"Where Girls Are First" City-Wide Media Literacy Conference
7400 Military Avenue
Omaha, Nebraska 68134
Art-based workshop sessions with middle school girls to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Workshops will include lecture by leading authority Lyn Mikel Brown, author of "Packaging Girlhood." There will also be an evening Exhibition opening and reception with visual artists and Project Girl co-creators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell, Coco McAtee, MSW, and Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, presenting information on the ramifications of our media-based consumer culture on the lives of adolescent girls. The event will be family-based, but discussions will be targeted to parents and educators.
Contact: 402-571-2618 www.marianhighschool.net
2009 Girls Coalition of Minnesota 19th Annual Conference:
Celebrating Change! - April 20 - 21, 2009
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training, St. Paul, MN - April 20, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
12:00 to 4:30 PM
Neighborhood House at the Wellstone Center
179 Robie Street East • St. Paul, MN 55107
Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks-Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this arts-based workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents, and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. It's essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes. Participants take part in a unique reflective and expressive art experience, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's arts-based curriculum.
Learn, Earn And Prosper (LEAP)!, Madison, WI - March 30, 2009 Sold Out!
March 30, 2009
Monona Terrace, Madison, WI
Sold Out!
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Un-Mediafy Your Life!
Come experience this art-based workshop that gives you the tools you need to look at media through smarter eyes. Create incredible artwork, hang out with other girls and make new friends. Explore stereotypes and labeling, body image and the beauty myth, consumerism, real girl power, and sisterhood. Plus, take your artwork home or your art can be exhibited in the Project Girl Expo at the American Family Children's Hospital (Madison)! Sponsor: Project Girl (www.projectgirl.org)
Hardy Girls Healthy Women/Colby College/Freshwater Arts, Waterville, Maine, January 5, 2008
Colby College
Waterville, Maine
Freshwater Arts
All day workshop facilitator training preparing for April, 2008 statewide girl conference which will include a Project Girl Exhibition.
Contact: Hardy Girls
Major Sponsors:Hardy Girls Healthy Women
Seippel Center for the Arts, Beaver Dam, WI, January 12, 2008
1605 North Spring Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Two half day facilitator training workshops for future exhibition docents and community girl allies and group leaders.
Contact: 920-885-3635
Project Girl Exhibition, Beaver Dam, January 13-February 24, 2008
Major Sponsors:Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation, Inc.
Melodie & Tom Willihnganz
American Association of University Women, Beaver Dam Branch
Derr & Villarreal, Attorneys
Seippel Center for the Arts
1605 North Spring Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
2008 Girl Talk Conference, Madison, WI ,January 26-27, 2008
2008 Girl Talk Conference
Talkin' You, Talkin' Body Talkin' Spirit
Lutheran Campus Center
University of Wisconsin
325 N. Mills Street
Madison, WI 53715
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 from throughout Wisconsin and hosted by University of Wisconsin student mentors, the evening workshop is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Girls will be challenged to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform.
Contact: 608-257-7178, LCCMadison@rso.wisc.edu, cost=$20.00, registration forms online at www.lccmadison.com.
Sponsors:Lutheran Campus Center
Alverno Facilitator Training Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, February 26, 2008
February 26, 2008
Alverno College
3400 South 43rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53234-3401
All day facilitator training workshop for Alverno faculty, students, and local girl allies.
9:00am-12:00pm.
Contact: 414-382-6000
Sponsors:
Facilitator Training For Art Educators, Golden Valley, Minneapolis, MN, February 29, 2008
Peprich Center for Arts Education
6125 Olsen Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, Minneapolis
(Western Minneapolis suburbs)
763-591-4739
Art-based Workshops, Minneapolis, MN, March 1, 2008
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Walker.org
Free First Saturday
Day long art-based workshops dedicated to helping youth and parents become more critical consumers of media.
Sponsors:Medtronic Foundation
WCCO TV Channel 4 CBS affiliate
Arts Day 2008, Madison, WI, March 5, 2008
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center and State Capital
Madison, WI
On Arts Day, representatives of all parts of Wisconsin's extraordinary arts community come together for one day to:
- Celebrate all that's happening in the arts across Wisconsin
- Connect with old and new friends
- Educate legislators about the importance of investing in the arts, to strengthen Wisconsin's economy, educational system, and social infrastructure.
Contact:: 608-255-8316, info@artswisconsin.org
Sponsors: Arts Wisconsin
Project Girl Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, March 29, 2008
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Saturday, March 29, 10 am – 5 pm
Star Tribune Art Lab
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 the day long workshop is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Students will be challenged to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Presented in conjunction with the Girls in the Director's Chair Film showcase. To register or for more information email teenprograms@walkerart.org.
Peer-to-peer Facilitator Workshop, Madison, WI April 23, 2008
Edgewood High School
829 Edgewood College Drive
Madison, WI 53711
Evening workshop, 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Training Edgewood High School girls to be Project Girl peer-to-peer facilitators to elementary and middle school students. Girls will be given tools and techniques to sharpen their media literacy skills and ability to deconstruct media messages.
Contact: 608-663-4100
Sponsor: Edgewood Star Girl Club, Edgewood High School
Art-based Workshop Sessions, Minneapolis, MN, May 30, 2008
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Exhibition opening May 30-August 16, 2008
Two half day art-based workshop sessions with middle school girls to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Workshops will include lecture by leading authority Lyn Mikel Brown, author of "Packaging Girlhood." There will also be an evening Exhibition opening and reception with Kelly Parks Snider, Jane Bartell, and Lyn Mikel Brown presenting information on the ramifications of our media-based consumer culture. The event will be family-based, but discussions will be targeted to parents and educators. Contact: 612-871-4444, info@intermediarts.org
Facilitator Training Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, May, 2008
Santa Fe, New Mexico
All day facilitator training workshop for local artists, University of New Mexico art educators and students, and local girl allies.
Sponsor: Private Donor
Girls Inc.
Project Girl Art Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, September, 2008
Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 the series of weekly art-based workshops is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Contemporary media images of girls and women will be compared and contrasted with women as depicted in the Milwaukee Art Museum's permanent collection.
Contact: 414-224-3200, mam@mam.org
Project Girl Art Exhibition & Opening Event, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 14-Nov 7, 2008
October 14- November 7, 2008
Opening reception to be announced
Alverno College
3400 South 43rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53234-3401