WAB Fall 2008 Workshop Series

The Wisconsin Arts Board Announces
A Three-Part Workshop Series for Autumn, 2008

Registration Form

Fall 08 Workshop Series Registration Form

Deadline: one week prior to the workshop date

Please complete this form with your keyboard then click the “Submit” button within the form to send your registration by email.

Workshop Descriptions
Workshop Presenters
The Schedule by Location (with map links)
The Schedule by Date
The Schedule by Workshop Topic
Local Hosts
“Mock Application” samples from the WAB’s Grant Proposal Writing Workshop:

At the clear recommendation of our spring, 2008 grant review panels, the Wisconsin Arts Board will offer—for the first time ever—a series of workshops focused around the issues of Leadership Succession Planning for organizations, Strong Evaluation Practices, and Effective Grant Proposal Writing. Seven communities around the state will host this workshop series throughout the Autumn.

Significant resources have been invested in these workshops in order to bring you the leaders in the fields of arts-organization-focused succession planning and evaluation.

All grant applicants to the Wisconsin Arts Board are strongly encouraged to register for the Succession Planning and Evaluation workshops in particular. These workshops are underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts. For that reason, registrations from past grant applicants to the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Wisconsin Humanities Council will be given priority.

Please note: Space is limited for these workshops. Please register as soon as possible by submitting the registration form located here: http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/fall_workshops_08registration.pdf. The deadline for registration is one week prior to the workshop date.

As is the case for all Wisconsin Arts Board meetings, each workshop location is accessible to people with disabilities. Interpreters are available for people with hearing impairments, with a two week notice.

Workshop Series Descriptions

First Day
9:00 am - Noon
Grant Proposal Writing workshop featuring a mock panel
After a briefing on effective grant proposal writing practices, you have the chance to act as panelists on a mock arts grant review panel. In small groups, you will review sample applications to the Arts Board and then move to the head of the room to join a mock panel, and to give your take on the strengths and weaknesses of the
application(s) you reviewed... putting into practice what you’ve just learned.

(*NOTE: the November 18th workshop in Platteville will actually take place from 6:00 - 8:30pm)

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Succession Planning workshop
As leaders at the board level and the staff level change, organizations go through an important transition. There are simple actions that organizations can take to make that transition as smooth and helpful to the organization—and the community that it serves—as possible. To that end, the Arts Board offers this workshop. Presented by the Illinois Arts Alliance, leaders in the field of succession planning and authors of the book Succession: Arts Leadership for the 21st Century, this workshop offers a painless way to focus on the issues surrounding succession before they focus on you.

Second Day
9:00 am - 4:00 pm *
Are We There Yet? A Workshop on Program Evaluation
The opportunity to learn about the impact of what you do and how well you’re doing it is available to you every day. This highly interactive workshop will help you identify the many ways that you already evaluate what you’re doing, learn other ways to evaluate that make sense for your organization, and understand more deeply how your community benefits from your work. Two great guest presenters from the Arts Extension Service out of Massachusetts lead this workshop, with voices from arts organizations in the region adding their best practices into the mix. The two tracks of the workshop—Fundamentals and Advanced—guarantee that you will leave with tools and information that you can put to use immediately.

(*NOTE: the December 5th workshop in Green Bay will actually take place from 10am-5pm)

Workshop Presenter Bios

Leadership Succession Planning:

Ra Joy, Executive Director, Illinois Arts Alliance
Ra Joy is an artist and arts advocate with extensive experience in public policy and the congressional arena. As executive director for one of the premier statewide advocacy organization’s in the nation, Mr. Joy oversees research, capacity building and communication efforts to advance widespread support for the arts and arts education in Illinois.

Prior to joining the Illinois Arts Alliance, Mr. Joy served for six years as a senior staffer for U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-9). Motivated by the belief that democracy is a verb and the instinct to be creative is universal, Mr. Joy serves as Chair of the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival and is a member of the board of directors for Mikva Challenge.

He was selected as a fellow for the 2005 class of Leadership Greater Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Illinois University. Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois he currently resides in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood with his wife, Falona, and their three sons.

Lisa May Simpson, Deputy Director, Illinois Arts Alliance
Lisa May Simpson facilitates networking and professional development opportunities for arts leaders throughout Illinois and also manages key internal functions of the Illinois Arts Alliance. She heads up the development and delivery of the biennial One State: Together in the Arts conference, the Local Arts Network (both in partnership with the Illinois Arts Council), Peer Coaching Circles, Mentor Connection Service, and other leadership and capacity-building programs.

Prior to joining the IAA team in 2000, Lisa served as a counselor for the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Renton, Washington. She holds a BA in Theater from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and has performed with a number of theater companies in Chicago, including Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Hypocrites, the Neo-Futurists, and BlindFaith Theatre. Lisa currently serves on the board of directors of Chicago Health Connection.

Are We There Yet? A Workshop on Program Evaluation:

Maren Brown, MBA: Maren is the Director of the Arts Extension Service, a national arts service organization based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the co-editor of the 5th edition of Fundamentals of Arts Management , teaches in the University’s Arts Management Certificate and Arts Administration Concentration degree programs, and delivers trainings nationwide. In her workshops, Maren draws upon over 25 years of experience working in the field, primarily in art, history and science museums, and in higher education.

Maryo Ewell: Maryo Gard Ewell is a community arts development specialist, with a career spanning thirty years in this field. She teaches online for Goucher College’s MA in arts administration program, and she has recently revised the classic The Arts in the Small Community with Mike Warlum. She manages projects, conducts research, writes, and speaks on community arts. Her honors include the prestigious Ottum award for outstanding service in “strengthening the arts and the community in America.”

Schedule by location

Stevens Point
October 20 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
October 20 – Succession Planning workshop
October 21 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: The Charles M. White Memorial Library (Downtown), 1001 Main St.
715-346-1544
MAP

Madison
October 21 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
October 21 – Succession Planning workshop
October 22 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: Dane County Courthouse, 215 S. Hamilton St. (downtown)
Assembly Room L1000 (lower level)
608-266-5915
MAP

Milwaukee
October 22 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
October 22 – Succession Planning workshop

To be held: Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 123 E. State Street, Bradley Pavilion, 3rd Floor. (Please use the entrance to the Marcus Center that is located on State Street, where it says ‘administrative offices.’ )
414-273-7121
MAP to workshop
MAP to parking

October 23 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: UWM School of Continuing Education at the Grand Avenue Mall, 275 W. Wisconsin Avenue, 7th Floor
414-224-0384
MAP to workshop
MAP to parking

Platteville
November 18 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop (6:00 - 8:30pm)

To be held: Mound City Bank - Motorbranch meeting room, 90 S. Second Street, Platteville (Please note this is the MOTORBRANCH not the main branch!)
608-348-2685
MAP

Eau Claire
December 2 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
December 2 – Succession Planning workshop
December 3 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: Eau Claire Regional Arts Center, 316 Eau Claire Street
715-832-2787
MAP

Ashland/Washburn
December 3 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
December 3 – Succession Planning workshop
December 4 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: Northern Great Lakes Center, 29270 County Highway G
MAP

Green Bay
December 4 – Grant Proposal Writing workshop
December 4 – Succession Planning workshop
December 5 – Evaluation workshop

To be held: Harmony Cafe, 1660 W Mason Street
920-569-1593
MAP

Schedule by date

October

October 20 – Stevens Point
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

October 21 – Stevens Point
Evaluation workshop

October 21 – Madison
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

October 22 – Madison
Evaluation workshop

October 22 – Milwaukee
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

October 23 –Milwaukee
Evaluation workshop

November

November 18 – Platteville
Grant Proposal Writing workshop

December

December 2 – Eau Claire
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

December 3 – Eau Claire
Evaluation workshop

December 3 – Washburn/Ashland
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

December 4 – Washburn/Ashland
Evaluation workshop

December 4 – Green Bay
Grant Proposal Writing workshop
Succession Planning workshop

December 5 – Green Bay
Evaluation workshop

Schedule by workshop topic

Grant Proposal Writing, 9:00 am – Noon
October 20 - Stevens Point
October 21 – Madison
October 22 - Milwaukee
November 18 – Platteville (NOTE: this workshop in Platteville will actually take place from 6:00 - 8:30pm)
December 2 – Eau Claire
December 3 – Washburn/Ashland
December 4 – Green Bay

Succession Planning, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
October 20 - Stevens Point
October 21 – Madison
October 22 - Milwaukee
December 2 – Eau Claire
December 3 – Washburn/Ashland
December 4 – Green Bay

Are We There Yet? A Workshop on Program Evaluation, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
October 21 – Stevens Point
October 22 – Madison
October 23 - Milwaukee
December 3 – Eau Claire
December 4 – Washburn/Ashland
December 5 – Green Bay (NOTE: this workshop in Green Bay will actually take place from 10am-5pm)

Local Hosts

Stevens Point:

The Arts Alliance of Portage County is nonprofit arts organization with the mission to connect, promote, and illuminate artistic expression, artists and audiences across Portage County.

Madison:

The Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission was created by the Dane County Board of Supervisors in 1976, at the end of the American bicentennial observance, to foster public participation in local arts and historical activity; to increase public access to the cultural resources of the county; and to forge working alliances between public and private sectors in support of the arts.

The Madison Arts Commission is a municipal commission that funds artistic activities and initiates cultural programs that integrate, support, and advance arts and culture as an essential part of life in Madison.

Milwaukee:

The Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee is a nonprofit organization with the mission to strengthen, advance and represent the arts and culture sector as an essential asset for growing a vibrant, attractive region.

The Milwaukee Arts Board is a nonprofit arts organization created to enhance the development, cultural diversity, accessibility and enjoyment of the arts for Milwaukee’s citizens.

Platteville:

Arts Build is an economic development project of the UW Platteville Office of Continuing Education, designed to offer assistance to local artists, artisans, and craftspeople in southwest Wisconsin.

Eau Claire:

The Chippewa Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau is a regional destination marketing organization. We provide leadership to make West Central Wisconsin a highly desirable and recognized destination for all visitors.

The Eau Claire Regional Arts Council is a nonprofit arts organization with the mission to transform people’s lives through the performing and visual arts. The Eau Claire Regional Arts Center provides a home base for local arts organizations, gallery space for area professional artists, a 1,100-seat Theatre for local and national touring shows, and countless opportunities for everyone in the Chippewa Valley to enrich their lives through the arts.

Ashland:

The Chequamegon Bay Arts Council is a coalition of individuals, groups, community based organizations, and area businesses interested in supporting and nurturing the arts and enliven, entertain, and increase the quality of life in the Chequamegon Bay Region.

Green Bay:

newARTS is a nonprofit, cultural membership organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life of the citizens of Northeastern Wisconsin through efforts to support, foster, and promote the arts.

The Wisconsin Arts Board is the state agency which nurtures creativity, cultivates expression, promotes the arts, supports the arts in education, stimulates community and economic development and serves as a resource for people of every culture and heritage.

Updated: November 19, 2008