Attention Wisconsin emerging arts leaders – Arts Wisconsin is looking for a few good people to help plan the fourth Emerging Arts Leaders conference, to take place in November or December 2010 (location to be determined, too). We need your ideas and energy to make this year’s event a big success for all [...]

Over 200 Wisconsinites from the worlds of the arts, business, education, civic issues, politics, and government rallied at Arts Day 2010, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at the Monona Terrace Convention Center and the State Capitol in downtown Madison.
If there ever was a time that Wisconsin needed the arts, it’s now. This is an [...]

The UW Madison Arts Institute brought former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and recent transition team leader in Arts and Humanities for the Obama administration, Bill Ivey to Madison last week to talk about arts policy. Bill Ivey was the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, [...]

Here are some thoughtful comments about the arts sector, from my colleague Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council.  He’s an arts advocate extraordinaire and always has a lot of good things to say about the meaning of the arts in our world.   You can find Barry’s Blog at http://www.westaf.org/blog/.
“And the beat goes [...]

Arts Wisconsin is calling for nominations for the first annual Arts in the Community Awards, highlighting and promoting community-based support of the arts in Wisconsin villages, towns and cities, and honor civic leaders who have encouraged and supported innovative approaches to using the arts to build and sustain vibrant, healthy, creative communities.  The award [...]

This Friday, July 31, is the early registration deadline for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts’ 72nd annual Conference for Community Arts Education, to be presented November 11-14 in Minneapolis.
Presented annually, the conference provides essential professional development and networking opportunities for staff, teaching artists and trustees in community arts education. This year’s [...]

On Friday, July 24, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education funding bill, setting the initial appropriation level for both the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and Arts in Education programs (AIE) at the U.S. Department of Education for fiscal year 2010. The Senate Appropriations Committee is preparing [...]

A recent New York Times article on Rocco Landesman, nominated to be Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, noted the tumultuous years for the National Endowment for the Arts when the “national conversation” about the arts in our society focused more on defining art than on ensuring access to the arts for all [...]

By now, pretty much everyone in the state has to know that the movie “Public Enemies” has been filming in several locations around Wisconsin since March, bringing visibility, credibility, lots of economic impact, and Johnny Depp (!) to the state. This Universal Studios film is the first major motion picture filmed in the [...]

The new awardees of the 2008 Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Awards are available to be seen on WVALAA’s website. In addition Madison City Channel 12, will be rebroadcasting the recorded event several times. The schedule of viewings is listed below, with statements by the 8 new Awardees and the keynote presentation by [...]