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- 2009-2010 Arts Legislative
Agenda:
- Encourage state investment in the arts and arts education through the Wisconsin Arts Board and other state agencies
- Reinvigorate the film industry tax incentives to strengthen an important new
- Advance the recommendations of the Wisconsin Task Force on Arts
and Creativity in Education (WTFACE) to support creative learning
for all Wisconsin students.
-Check out the Creative Wisconsin website
- Read President Barack Obama's national arts policy here -the first time a President has a stated arts policy! And, click here for arts policy recommendations from national arts service organizations to the Obama administration - again, a historic first for the arts and arts education in America.
- Arts Action Toolkit
- In 2010, Arts Wisconsin will survey candidates for Governor, the State Senate and Senate Legislature about their support of the arts and arts education. Watch for more information soon!
- Conversations on the arts and arts education on Wisconsin
Public Radio
- Bob Morrison, Chairman Emeritus, Music for All, on the state of arts education in Wisconsin, 8/27/08
- Anne Katz, Executive Director, Arts Wisconsin, on advocacy for the arts in Wisconsin and all of its communities, 7/21/08
- Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton, on the arts, arts education and creative economy, 7/16/08 (scroll to 7/16/08)
- Arts and Economic Prosperity III - the economic power of the arts, from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Americans for the Arts (AFTA)
- Wisconsin's 2008 Creative Industries reports--by state, Congressional district, and legislative district
- Sign up and be counted: get your Dun and Bradstreet number and be counted in AFTA's "Creative Industries" research
- Recent Presentations on the arts and the creative economy
- Lt. Governor Lawton and State Supt. Burmaster co-chaired the Wisconsin Task Force on the Arts and Creativity in Education.
- Arts Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education released a new report on the state of arts education in Wisconsin's schools, 8/11/2008
- 2007 National Arts Policy Roundtable, Americans for the Arts: Thinking Creatively and Competing Globally-The Role of the Arts in Building the 21st Century American Workforce
- Arts Education Network Weekly News, from AFTA
- A team from Wisconsin participated in the NEA's Education Leaders Institute, March 2008
- State Superintendent of Public Instruction Elizabeth Burmaster's editorial 12/14/2007: The arts are not a luxury, they are essential