Honor our past-Prepare our Future

Honor Our Past-Prepare Our Future

The Wisconsin Rapids community has taken a big loss from the closing of our major industrial manufacturing. These industries, like logging, paper production, and steel foundry manufacturing, have significantly impacted our community. Many businesses within our community benefitted from the major workloads as a result of these industries' success. As you can imagine, this affects more than can be listed.

This effort to raise funds will ensure the purchasing of unique industrial components from the scrapping companies. These components represent the industrial impact on Wisconsin Rapids. They would tell the story of our history and ultimately reflect our identity.

The goal, after procuring and saving the components from being scrapped, is to create sculptural features to memorialize these industries.

Presented by the ACE Leadership Program 2025

Through the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce

The ACE Leadership Program is proud to lead a community sculpture project aimed at beautifying the entrance to Wisconsin Rapids and honoring our city's history. We are looking to have this sculpture located at Wisconsin Rapids Airport, creating a powerful first impression for visitors and a lasting symbol of our community pride.

Our goals include welcoming newcomers and visitors to Wisconsin Rapids, celebrating the rich heritage of the paper industry that shaped our community and beautifying a prominent public space with meaningful art.

We're asking for your support to bring this vision to life. Funds will be used to purchase any necessary materials to complete the artwork along with covering the cost to install artwork. Also purchasing a plaque to include donors of this project and ACE Leadership group.

We are looking to raise $25,000 to complete this project.

Artist

Ben Jennings, a Sculpture Artist from Wisconsin Rapids, is looking for funding to create public art in his hometown.