Wisconsin Art Works Campaign to Provide Fuel for Wisconsin’s Creative Economy
The Wisconsin Arts Board today launched Art Works, a campaign to reveal the lead role creativity plays in fueling the state’s economy. The statewide effort kicks off with distribution of a news brochure that is, in itself, a work of art. “Art Works uses impactful photography to portray how creativity and art are in motion, everywhere around the state, as economic drivers,” said Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton, chair of the Wisconsin Arts Board. “And Art Works describes the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts in their service to state and nation. With our systems of support in place, art and artists and arts and creative professionals work to enrich our culture, our lives and livelihoods in communities everywhere.” For more information and to view the brochure, click the link above.
The ABCs of Residencies: An Introductory Workshop for Teaching Artists
This workshop will cover essential topics for teaching artists who offer residencies and presentations in schools. The Wisconsin Arts Board and Oneida Nation Arts Program will present this workshop in three Wisconsin communities during August and September 2010. Interactive sessions will help artists to communicate clearly about their artwork with educators, introduce key concepts about working in schools, and will review actual teaching techniques that other artists have utilized in their residencies. The workshop will also cover ways to market your presentations to educational institutions.
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Altering the Face and the Heart of America:
The Gard Symposium
September 24-25, 2010
Lowell Center, UW-Madison Campus, Madison, WI
Robert Gard once wrote, “If you try, you can indeed alter the face and the heart of America.” You have seen it happen time and again. It is why you work as an artist or arts administrator or community volunteer. You know the power of community arts development to create healthy communities. You know the rich history of the field. It is time to look forward, to envision a thriving future - for the community arts development field and for our communities. It is time to embrace the rich, rural roots of this movement, and to proclaim the power of this work in urban neighborhoods and diverse communities. It is time to come together, to dream, to think, to act. On September 24-25, two hundred leaders interested in the future of healthy communities will gather for a series of presentations, responses, and discussions with people like Lew Feldstein (co-author of Better Together) and Dr. William Cronon (whose research seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world). We invite you to join us for two days of provocative thinking and visioning for the future... and many days of taking what we do in Madison and developing it around the state, the region, and the country. For more information and to register, click here.
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