Arts Wisconsin 2008-2009 Board of Directors
Peter Crawford, President (2011), Milwaukee
Brand Manager, Roundys, Inc.
Former President, Central Wisconsin Cultural Center
Kate Rericha (2011), Secretary, Sturgeon Bay
Director of Development, Birch Creek Music Center, Egg Harbor
Nikolas C. George, Jr. (2010), Treasurer, Madison
Executive Director, Midwest Food Processors Association
Spyros Heniadis (2010), Biron
Artist and Founder, Artscape Arts Cooperative
Debra Karp (2012), Racine
Director, Community-Based Scholarship and Nonprofit Development, UW Parkside
Larry MacDonald (2010), Bayfield
Mayor, City of Bayfield
Ben Richgruber (2012), Eau Claire
Executive Director, Eau Claire Regional Arts Council
Margie Shurgot (2011), Oneida
Senior Counsel for Fund Development and Investor Relations, NEW North
Martina Skobic (2010), LaCrosse
Coordinator, Learning Community of Artists Program, UW-LaCrosse
Carole Spelic (2012), Mineral Point
ArtsBuild Director, UW Platteville
Jon Winkle (2012), Brookfield
Executive Director, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield
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STAFF
Anne Katz, Executive Director
Ruth Wikler-Luker, Assistant for Special Projects
Emily Hutter, Intern
Box 1054
Madison, WI 53701-1054
608 255 8316
608 255 0334 fax
info@artswisconsin.org
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Larry MacDonald: Larry is serving his 7th term as Mayor of the eco-municipality of Bayfield, WI. He has combined serving on the Chequamegon Bay Alliance for Sustainability, the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Advisory Council, the Wisconsin Coastal Management Council, the Friends of the Apostle Islands and most recently joined the Arts Wisconsin Board, while aggressively supporting the passage of the Great Lakes Water Compact and other community oriented activities to provide a well rounded and practical approach to working toward goals for community preservation and sustainability.
Larry firmly believes that everyone should receive compensatory time off during all Packer games and that billboards should disappear in Wisconsin. Living next to the greatest of all the Great Lakes, Lake Superior has helped to define his life. He has voyaged over 10,000 miles on the Great lakes in sailboats; mostly on Lake Superior.
Owning a B&B in the City of Bayfield since 1989, Larry and his wife Julie continue to have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. Julie enjoys a portion of her free time by painting with watercolors.
Larry has a background in ski area and golf course management and he spent a year researching the feasibility of frog farming in Acapulco, Mexico during the late 1970’s. He actually had a real job once; it lasted for 6 months, which was the worst 6 months of his life.
His favorite quote: "All the water that will ever be, is right now."
Spyros Heniadis: Spyros Heniadis is a great example of a 21st century creative entrepreneur, the kind of artist who can be a mentor and advisor to his peers. He has been involved with and supportive of Arts Wisconsin as a participant in the Emerging Leaders Network, host and “organizer” of the April 2008 “WORK of Art” workshop in Marshfield, and member of Arts Wisconsin's advocacy captains network.
Spyros is a self-taught art photographer living in the Village of Biron just outside of Wisconsin Rapids. He grew up in Madison, and attended college at UW-Whitewater. Spyros spent a great deal of his college time browsing the Internet, taking in art, which started him on his path to art photography. After college Spyros spent some time working at Half Price Books in Madison. He was responsible for the art section of the store and it was there that Spyros discovered a multitude of art and photography books and began developing a more refined and specific passion for photography. He got his first camera in 2000 and spent the next five years taking thousands of pictures, reading books and magazines, acquiring more cameras and finding his skill and style as an art photographer.
In 2004 Spyros and his wife moved to Biron and soon after that Spyros began working to establish himself as an art photographer. It was through those efforts that he heard about the formation of an artists' cooperative in Marshfield. Eager to become part of a collective artistic effort, and eager to meet other local artists, Spyros started attending the informational meetings. When a steering committee formed to establish the cooperative, Spyros led the effort as committee chair. He is one of the eleven founding members of the Marshfield Artists' Cooperative, and serves as the president of the cooperative. During this period, Spyros also started a small press publishing company with Rachel Kendall, a Manchester UK based writer and artist. ISMs Press is dedicated to the exploration of ?Werdenism?, the unique blend of Existentialism, Surrealism and Expressionism. ISMs Press publishes the magazine ?Sein Und Werden?, and has also published a novella by British writer Mark Howard Jones.
Spyros is represented by ARTscape Gallery and also has work on display at West 14th restaurant in Marshfield. He also participated in the 2007 Urban Photos and Iron Sculpture? exhibit at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Debra Karp serves as Director of the Nonprofit Institute as well as the Director of the Arts Management Program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Debra holds a master’s degree in business from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a program of the UW-Madison Business School. With over 20 years experience working with nonprofit organizations as a staff member, volunteer and Board Director as well as a panelist for funding agencies, Debra offers insight in marketing, planning, grantwriting and other fundraising activities for nonprofit organizations. Her training in the Diagnostic Clinic program has sharpened her skills and ability to assess the needs of nonprofits and generate productive solutions to help build capacity.
Kate Rericha: Since October 2005, Ms. Rericha has been Director of Marketing, Public Relations and Grants for Birch Creek Music Performance Center, Inc. in Egg Harbor, where she plans, administers, coordinates, and evaluates marketing, public relations, and grantseeking programs to maximize Birch Creek's concert and academic offerings. Ms. Rericha researches arts and education grant opportunities from government agencies and private foundations; assesses grant opportunities as they align with Birch Creek's mission statement, and applies for appropriate funding annually. She works closely with the executive director to establish measurable grant implementation policies and procedures with the goal of building a sustainable grantseeking program that demonstrates the highest standards of organizational accountability, professionalism and ethical conduct.
Ms. Rericha's past work has positioned her as a leading grants administrator and grant writer for non-profit organizations in the arts, health and human service agencies and public education. Before coming to Birch Creek, she authored over 50 grants, applications for federal funding reimbursements, and technology plans for nonprofit organizations and public school districts with a success/certification rate of 83%, securing more than $3,000,000 for rural Northeast Wisconsin.
Kate Rericha is an arts educator with over thirty years of experience in a variety of environments including pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade public and private schools, technical colleges, arts centers and museums, and nursing homes. Ms. Rericha holds a degree in art education from UW-Oshkosh. Recently elected Secretary of the Arts Wisconsin board, Kate serves her local community through volunteer board leadership and her state community through grant reading and program evaluation.
As the grant administrator for the Peninsula Arts Association from 2002-2005, she was awarded the 2004 Pride in Place Award by the Door County Visitor Bureau in for planning Door County Summit for the Arts, and in 2005 she organized a Town Hall meeting between Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and 20 arts organizations and artists from Door and Kewaunee counties to discuss funding challenges to small organizations.
Margie Shurgot holds degrees from Pomona College (B.A.), University of Southern California and Claremont Graduate School. Initially a journalist with the Los Angeles Times, she soon moved to fund development and public relations, first at Regis University and then to development roles successively with the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Denver Performing Arts revitalization project, and the University of Colorado at Denver. Following a senior staff position with the San Francisco Symphony and work as campaign director for the restoration of the San Francisco Opera House, she became vice president of advancement for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she planned and directed a successful, three-year $60 million capital campaign. After coming to St. Norbert College with her husband William Hynes in 2001 she became senior counsel for the college’s Strategic Fund Initiative. She returned to her love of the arts as executive director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra in 2003. Presently, Shurgot is senior counsel for fund development and investor relations for NEW North Inc., an 18-county regional economic development consortium for promoting talent and creative resources for community growth and welfare in this region.
Martina Skobic: Martina is the
facilitator of non-credit business programs for artists at UW-La Crosse.
Currently, in addition to facilitating the Learning Community of Artists:
Best Business Practices and Artists Planning For Profit programs, she
teaches non-credit business of art classes and provides counseling for
art business owners at the Small Business Development Center. She is also
an adjunct faculty member at the Viterbo University’s School of
Adult Learning, where she teaches a management course.
She has earned a law degree from University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
and an MBA degree from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Martina has more than 20 years of international and domestic legal, business, teaching, and consulting experience working with individuals, organizations, and groups in diverse settings within private, public, and government sectors.
Art has been a very important part of Martina’s life. She has produced and exhibited paintings, drawings, and mixed media objects for years.
Martina is a member of the Odin Arts Cooperative, La Crosse Society of Arts and Crafts, Wisconsin Regional Artists Association, Americans for Arts and has been serving as a board of directors member of the Pump House Regional Art Center and Odin Arts Cooperative and several other community organizations. She has recently won the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) 2008 State Exhibit Award in La Crosse and will participate in the WRAA Statewide Exhibit and Conference in Madison in September, 2008. Martina is represented by Gallery La Crosse.
Prior to moving to La Crosse in July of 2000, Martina worked, lived and/or studied in New York City, Jacksonville, Florida, Zamora, Spain, Strasbourg, France and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Carole Spelic is Director of UW Platteville's ArtsBuild program, and is an artist who creates elegant globe and vessel forms in papier mache with reverse patterning derived from Tibetan Tiber rugs, Gregg shorthand and map imagery of invented worlds. Originally from the east coast, she earned an MFA and then spent 17 years as a working artist in Manhattan. She now lives and works in Mineral Point. Carole and her artist partner, Richard Moninski, operate the Green Lantern Studios where they make and show their own work as well as offering changing exhibits of work by national and regional artists.