The ABCs of Residencies: An Introductory Workshop for Teaching Artists
Workshop dates: Madison, August 20; Eau Claire, September 1; Oneida, September 9
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.
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship Applications Are Now Available
eGRANT Deadline: September 15, 2010
Wisconsin’s professional literary artists, composers, choreographers and performance artists are encouraged to apply for a 2011 Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship Award. Applications are available on the Arts Board’s web site and must be submitted through the eGRANT system on or before September 15, 2010.
New Percent for Art Commission Available
Deadline: September 27, 2010
The Wisconsin Arts Board’s Percent for Art program announces a new commission opportunity for the UW Madison Gordon Commons; a prospectus for the project is now listed through the link above. Please check out the project prospectus and apply in the consideration for the commission if it interests you. The application deadline is September 27, 2010. Please note that this is the last Percent for Art application that will be submitted using hard copies and CDs of images. Future applications for commissions and other Percent for art opportunities will be submitted online. Further information will be available when this change occurs.
Applications for Artist and Community Collaborations Grants Are Now Available
eGRANT Deadline: October 15, 2010
The Wisconsin Arts Board announces that applications for the Artist and Community Collaborations Grant program are now being accepted. The purpose of the Artist and Community Collaborations Grant program is to encourage collaborative projects between artists and their communities that support the development of the individual artist, use the power of the arts for community renewal, and actively engage community members. Funds are available for artists who initiate a partnership project with a community organization.
Wisconsin Arts Board and Edenfred Welcome Applications for 2011 Residency Program
Deadline: October 31, 2010
For a second year, the Wisconsin Arts Board, Edenfred and Overture Center for the Arts welcome applications to the New Work Development Residency program. Residencies allow an individual or collaborative team to take up residence at Edenfred and create a new work at Overture Center for the Arts during the month of August. The new work must fall into a performance discipline – dance, music, theater, performance art, media or interdisciplinary collaborations – helping to advance the state of those art forms in Wisconsin.
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.
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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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