June 20, 2011 In The News | When You Go | Opportunities |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?” - Lucy Maud Montgomery, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
“Better to idle well than to work badly.” - Spanish Proverb
“Thinking, planning, analyzing--good stuff. But the problem with 20-year-olds, 40-year-olds and, tragically, 60-year-olds is a failure to treat life as an experiment.” - Tom Peters
“The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.” - Soren Kierkegaard
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Sugar Mountain Teaser Trailer
Volume One Magazine
“The teaser trailer for a locally made short film called Sugar Mountain to be released in August of 2011. It features the sprinting/muttering skills of a certain local arts center's executive director. The video is from Peter Elliott Eaton.”
"Making God Laugh"
Peninsula Players
“You can go home again, but are you sure it is a good idea? Empty nesters welcome home their children over various family holidays spanning three decades. As the parents and grown children adapt to their new adult relationships their dreams, unresolved issues, old family traditions and dubious recipes are trotted out as tensions flare up on Thanksgiving, New Years and Christmas holidays. Home is where the heart and laughs are.”
TOP WISCONSIN NEWS
FROM THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD
Is there hope for screenwriters who do not live in LA?
Noommizo
“Is there a life for a screenwriter outside of LA? “I have sold a short that is set to go into production this summer,” says England. “In addition, I have just been offered a job, developing and writing a full-length feature for an independent production company in Los Angeles. (I was offered the gig based on sample pages from my spec scripts.) It’s still early in the contract negotiation process, so I can’t say more about the project at this time. I am working on finishing several other specs and have a children’s book under official consideration at a respected publishing house.” So why not just move to LA? England lists the cost of living as one of the reasons she stays put in Milwaukee. But there is another great thing about her unpaid internship at the Wisconsin Arts Board.”
Giving Rose by 2.1% Last Year, New Estimate Shows
Giving USA, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
“As many economic signs point to a slowing recovery, donors continued to hold tight to their wallets last year, increasing their contributions by slightly more than 2 percent after inflation, suggests “Giving USA,” the annual tally of charitable giving in America released today.”
Also
How Different Causes Fared in 2010—and What 2011 May Bring
Giving USA, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Following is a look at how much “Giving USA” said donations increased or decreased to specific causes, plus The Chronicle’s reporting on the outlook for 2011 based on interviews with dozens of nonprofit leaders.”
101 Museums Will Participate in Conservation Assessment Program
Institute of Museum and Library Services
“The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP), which assists small museums in providing appropriate care for endangered collections, has announced this year's participating museums. In 2011, 101 museums in 36 states and Puerto Rico will have the condition of their collections and historic structures assessed. CAP is administered by Heritage Preservation and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through its National Leadership Grants program.” Congratulations to the following Wisconsin recipients: Charles Allis & Villa Terrace Museums, Milwaukee; Jewish Museum Milwaukee; Neenah Historical Society; and Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum, Eau Claire.
June 10, 2011
Dear Friends,
At its May 13, 2011 meeting, the Wisconsin Arts Board discussed the ramifications of the 2011 – 2013 Biennial Budget as amended by Joint Finance and our ensuing responsibilities. Attached please find a sheet that articulates the difficult decisions that were made to minimize the damage to the cultural infrastructure of our state. We provided this information to Governor Walker and to Secretary of Tourism Stephanie Klett earlier this week. What is not articulated on that sheet is the clear acknowledgement of the loss of the state's Percent for Art program. Any arts commission or project within the Percent for Art program that is not under contract by June 30th will not be realized.
The Arts Board has enjoyed an increasingly productive and mutually supportive relationship with the Department of Tourism over our 38 year history, each agency focused on its unique mission but lending expertise and leveraging strength for the other. As we consolidate our efforts, we look forward to working with Secretary Klett and Deputy Secretary Fantle to determine how the work of the Arts Board can deepen the Department’s work in cultural tourism and leverage resources in the Department to provide opportunities for the cultural workers and resources of our state.
The Arts Board will continue to lead in the development of the state's creative economy. We look forward to partnering with the new Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation in this work. The dynamic creative sector enjoys a 14% annual growth rate in the world economy; in Wisconsin, it boasts 3.6% of total employment. We've been developing rural and urban models for partnerships that ensure vibrant, creative communities become the breeding ground for entrepreneurs and new jobs. That work will continue.
As the Arts Board assists local and regional economic development organizations to develop their creative industries, it should be noted that we put our state at the helm of the National Creativity Network, an organization that seeks to promote imagination, creativity, and innovation in education, culture, and commerce. George Tzougros is the Chairman of this national organization. We will also continue our leadership in education innovation to develop all our state's children's creative capacities with our Task Force on the Arts and Creativity in Education. And we will advocate for creativity in all its forms – in the arts and humanities, as well as in science, technology, engineering and math.
Here is our timeline going forward, assuming no further changes by the Legislature or Governor and that the budget is signed by June 30:
June 30/July 1 Move agency's physical assets to the Department of Tourism's building at 201West Washington Avenue (four blocks from our current location)
July 5 Generate award/denial letters for Creation and Presentation grantees
July 27 Creative Communities: Arts Education grant review panel meeting (Madison)
August 11 Creative Communities: Local Arts grant review panel meeting (Madison)
September 16-17 Wisconsin Arts Board quarterly board meeting (location TBD)
September 19 Generate award/denial letters for Creative Communities grant applicants
Our work to provide high-quality services, smart development of our cultural infrastructure and workforce, assistance to Wisconsin’s communities to address their challenges, and our new relationship with the Department of Tourism, will be significant as we continue our efforts to ensure the resiliency of our state. Toward that end, we will publicize a revised Wisconsin Arts Board FY12-14 Strategic Plan in July, 2011. That plan reflects both the new terms of our reality and our ambition for the future of the arts in Wisconsin. We look forward to continuing our work with you.
Sincerely,
Barbara Lawton
Chairperson
What School Leaders Can Do To Increase Arts Education
Arts Education Partnership
“As the top building-level leaders, school principals play a key role in ensuring every student receives a high-quality arts education as part of a complete education. In a time of shrinking budgets and shifting priorities, what can school principals do to make and keep the arts strong in their schools?”
Federal: Oppose Termination of Arts Education in U.S. House Legislation
Americans for the Arts
“On May 25, 2011 the House Education & Workforce Committee, by a vote of 23-16, approved HR 1891, legislation that terminates 42 federal education programs, including the Arts in Education program at the U.S. Department of Education. This bill is more serious than the annual funding measures that threaten to de-fund arts education, as HR 1891 permanently strips policy language out of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allows the Arts in Education program to be funded each year.”
Arts Wisconsin seeks nominations for the 2011 "Arts in the Community" awards
Arts Wisconsin
Deadline: August 1
“Arts Wisconsin announces the third annual Arts in the Community awards, highlighting and promoting exemplary community-based support of and leadership for the arts in Wisconsin's villages, towns and cities. Nominations are currently being accepted, with a postmark or email deadline of August 1, 2011. Award recipients will be announced by September 1, 2011. Click here for more information and the nomination form.”
Poof! The IRS Revokes Tax Exemption for 20,000+ Arts Groups
ARTSBlog, Americans for the Arts
“In 2006, Congress asked the IRS to keep better track of the nation’s 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. Yesterday, the IRS revoked the tax-exempt status of 275,000 of them for not filing legally required documents for three consecutive years (2007-2009). Our early estimates are that well over 20,000 are nonprofit ARTS organizations.”
The Wisconsin Arts Board Thanks Four Interns, Lisa England, Lisa Hutler, Jenna Westrick and Karen Duval for Their Outstanding Contribution
Wisconsin Arts Board
“Four outstanding women have lent their creativity, talent, and energy to the Wisconsin Arts Board over this past (fiscal) year, 2011. We introduce them to you as a way of recognizing all that they have contributed to the Arts Board, and as a way of conveying our gratitude for all that they have accomplished this year. In the fall, Lisa England and Karen Duval joined us to focus primarily on film and teaching artists/creativity in education, respectively…”
The Latest on Music Education Policy from Capitol Hill
MENC
“The Memorial Day holiday weekend is here, but MENC staff stayed busy this week, digesting a response from the U.S. Department of Education to a letter MENC and arts colleagues sent to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. In other activity this week, MENC Director of Government Relations & Advocacy Communications Nancy Townes attended the May 25 markup of the first of a planned series of bills concentrating on reform of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). “
Kansas Becomes First State Without Arts Agency
ARTSBlog, Americans for the Arts
“Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission today (May 28), thereby ending a scuffle with the legislature, which funded the commission over his objections.
Visual Arts/Museums
Art league news
Door County Advocate
“Our busy art league will meet Monday. The guest speaker will be Tom Lidke of the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend. Tom is the executive director of the museum, which is one of about 30 American regional art museums that specialize exclusively in the art of their region. The MWA concentrates on Wisconsin art in all media and all timeframes of human habitation in the state.”
Pittsville Pottery and Poking Around
PortalWisconsin.org
“On a couple of occasions in the past I’ve written about ceramics in Wisconsin and touched on Pittsville Pottery. I was pleased to see a post a few weeks ago on Emily Pfotenhauer’s Wisconsin Object blog about a collection of Pittsville Pottery made to the local historical society. While the work may not be highly inventive, it is often well designed and the glazes have appeal. There’s an interesting story to the short life of the pottery works. Emily gives a bit of the background and you’ll find more at the Wisconsin Pottery Association’s website.”
IMLS Releases Preview of Framework for Digitally-Inclusive Communities
Institute of Museum and Library Services
“To help community leaders make strategic decisions about technology investments, the Institute of Museum and Library Services released, Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A guide to the proposed framework. The release is an initial step in IMLS's response to the National Broadband Plan, which recommended that the agency develop guidelines for public access technology to encourage use of broadband technologies.”
Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services
“The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announces the availability of application guidelines for the "Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums" project, funded jointly by IMLS and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This funding initiative is part of President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to bring American students to the forefront in science and math, to provide the workers of tomorrow with the skills they need today, and to re-envision learning in the 21st century. The program, in partnership with the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), will support the planning and design of up to 30 Learning Labs in libraries and museums that are based on current research on how young people learn through new media. The program will also build a community of practice among the grantee institutions.”
Literary/Libraries
Doug Moe: Book tells delicious old stories
Capital Times
“All right, I can’t write about Catherine Murray today, because I wrote about her in February, and, well, people might talk. The thing is, I can’t not write about her new book, “Spaghetti Corners... and all that Sauce!” Every time I open it, my life in Madison — more than half a century now — flashes before my eyes. I suspect the same thing will happen to others who have lived in this city for some time.”
U.S. IMPACT Study Second Report - Opportunity for All: How Library Policies and Practices Impact Public Internet Access
Institute of Museum and Library Services
“Opportunity for All: How Library Policies and Practices Impact Public Internet Access, offers an analysis of the service in four public library systems and makes recommendations for strategies that help to sustain and improve public access service. The report was funded through a partnership between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services and was produced by the University of Washington Information School. “We want libraries to use this information to communicate the value of their public computing services and resources,” said IMLS Director Susan Hildreth. “This report will be very useful for educating the public and provides actionable recommendations for policymakers and funders as they consider future efforts in this area.”
Google to Bring 250,000 British Library Books Online
PC Magazine
“With a catalog of about 14 million books, the British Library's collection is one of the biggest in the world, second only to the U.S. Library of Congress. Many of these titles will soon be available to anyone, anywhere; a new partnership between Google and the British Library will put about 250,000 of those texts online. Google is footing the bill to digitize content that is no longer under copyright. People can view, copy, and search this content dating from 1700-1870 for free via either the British Library site or the Google Books site. Content will be available in a variety of languages, and a focus will be placed on items that have never been available online before.”
Media Arts
Notorious Hacker Groups Vow to Join Forces Against World Governments
FoxNews.com
“The anarchist hackers of the world are uniting. In a statement released over the weekend, rogue hacker group LulzSec -- which in recent weeks has defaced and disabled sites from Sony to the CIA -- has pledged to unite with its sister collective Anonymous in a new cybercampaign against the world’s governments. Codenamed Operation Anti-Security, the statement was widely propagated by the two organizations on their official Twitter feeds. The two underground hacker collectives promised to target any government websites or systems that got in their way.”
Performing Arts
Dance
Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet?
The New York Times
LONDON - “The idea was to bring the ballet to the masses, so it was perhaps inevitable that the masses would bring nachos, beer and hot dogs to the ballet.”
Music
Classical music news: How much do top symphony orchestra CEO’s get paid? Is ASCAP biased in favor of describing member composers as “adventurous”? The New York Philharmonic cancels summer parks concerts. And how do you write down sounds?
The Well Tempered Ear/Jacob Stockinger
“I admit it. The news roundup today is a mish-mash with some gossip appeal for trivia fans. If there is a common thread, it is probably the way summer affects classical music and how one’s attention towards away from repertoire and regular season concerts to other matters, including public service and money.”
Stage Presence: Lifelong appreciation for artists inspires BDDS director
Wisconsin State Journal
“People know me as: Samantha Crownover, executive director of Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society. It’s my mainstay and I’ve been at it for 13 seasons. BDDS is celebrating its 20th season and that is very exciting for a chamber music festival in Madison. I also do some art consulting, ranging from projects such as the Art Enterprise Initiative at UW-Madison to helping clients select and hang visual art in their home or business. I also manage a historic building downtown, the Baskerville Condominiums, because the level of detail and craftsmanship in many of our older buildings is so beautiful and worth caring for.”
Classical music: Michelangeli and Mompou charm The Ear, who has passed 200,000 hits. How about you?
The Well Tempered Ear/Jacob Stockinger
“Something short and easy is in the offing today. I am using today’s posting to celebrate the fact that earlier this week, this blog broke 200,000 hits in under two years. That’s doing quite well, I am told, especially for a blog is not connected to a newspaper or magazine. Just about a year ago, it was at 50,000.”
Classical music review: We need to hear more Bach on the modern piano
The Well Tempered Ear/Jacob Stockinger
“There was so much to like and to remember at this weekend’s outstanding concert “Bach of Ages” by the Madison-based Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, which I heard Saturday night in the nearly sold-out performance at The Playhouse of the Overture Center. As usual, it featured some wonderful wind and string playing by imported and local artists.”
Presenting
Fillmor reopening could enliven music scene by attracting big bands to Wausau
Central Wisconsin Business
“Kristi Nowitzke can't wait for the additional foot traffic she hopes The Fillmor will bring downtown when it reopens this week. The event coordinator at Intermission bar, which sits almost directly across Fourth Street from The Fillmor, said the revitalized venue is almost certain to draw new crowds downtown and will only add to the city's nightlife. "We're pumped," Nowitzke said. "We've been waiting for this since they closed the first time."
Other
My Trip to England: The Ministry of Culture
Huffington Post/Michael Kaiser blog
“Spending almost two weeks speaking with hundreds of arts leaders throughout England has given me a great opportunity to observe the role and importance of a Ministry of Culture. While it may be ironic to praise the work of such a Ministry exactly at the time it is cutting grants dramatically, I do so nonetheless.”
Feeling Inspired? What inspires you?
PortalWisconsin.org
“Is there anything that might make you inclined, for example, to shape concrete into life-size animals? More than once, even, until you had a full yard with horses pulling carts and cows suckling their young? It’s truly astonishing what people can accomplish, and the different things that drive us to spend our energies. I like reading memoirs quite a bit, so when I see a scene like the Wisconsin Concrete Park outside of Phillips, I start to build a narrative in my head about life that led to this point.”
Visual Arts/Museums
Eyeworthy: ‘Wisconsin Native American Artists’
Wisconsin State Journal
Through September 1
“Daniel Swadener, curator for the public art gallery at Madison’s Promega Corp., was in Arizona when he happened upon this seed pot at an estate sale in 2009. “I made them an offer for a whole bunch of odds and ends — and (the pot) was in it,” he said. “I got it home and thought, ‘Wow, this is really a nice pot. Let’s do some research.’” Another show: Fans of Native American art also may want to attend the 27th annual Native American Artifact & Antique Show at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, June 25, and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, June 26. Free admission.”
Folk Arts/Folklife
Exhibits recall village's past - Ephraim Village Museums' opening coincides with Fyr Bal weekend
Green Bay Press Gazette
Various
“Two new exhibits at the Anderson Barn History Center of the Ephraim Village Museums are bringing the stories of local historic figures to life. The exhibits — "Garments of our Foundation" and "The Roots of Our Village: The Pioneer Families of Ephraim" — were unveiled Friday night at an opening reception marking the Ephraim Village Museum's 2011 summer season.”
Travel Digest: Country music fest, night-sky viewing party and a Strawberry Festival
Wisconsin State Journal
Various
“Country music fest - The 16th annual Country USA music festival opens Tuesday and runs through Saturday in Oshkosh. Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum are among this year’s headliners.”
Literary/Libraries
New book explores the neighborhood watering holes around the state
Wisconsin State Journal
July 1
“When it comes to taverns, no state beats Wisconsin. That’s what Carl Corey claims. And it’s what he documents in his new book of photography, “Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars.” He traveled the state looking for well-established neighborhood taverns: places that are community gathering spaces where regulars share news about their days, play cards or dice and have a cup of coffee or a beer — everything modern sports bars are not.”
Media Arts
On Wisconsin Sports: A special Middleton screening of 'The Jay DeMerit Story'
Capital Times
June 24
“The unorthodox path that Green Bay native Jay DeMerit took to the U.S. men's national soccer team may be rivaled only by the effort to bring his unimaginable tale of perseverance and good fortune to the big screen. An group of area soccer backers has joined the grass-roots effort to bring "Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story" to a broader audience by hosting a special screening of the documentary on Friday, June 24 at Keva Sports Center, 8312 Forsythia Street in Middleton.”
Performing Arts
Theater
American Players keeps 'Blithe Spirit' deceptively simple
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Various
Spring Green – “Despite invoking the supernatural, Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" is a witty drawing-room comedy with a disarmingly simple plot: The ghost of writer Charles Condomine's dead first wife comes back to haunt him and beleaguered wife No. 2. But nothing at American Players Theatre is ever as simple as it looks, and APT's sparkling new production of "Spirit," directed by David Frank, is no exception. Given that both of Charles' wives give him a hard time - and that the play also includes an eccentric female medium and references to Charles' overbearing mother - "Spirit" could easily earn all of its many laughs at women's expense.”
Other
Grant Program Policies & Practices
Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission
“This past winter and spring, the Commission conducted several listening sessions and an online survey seeking feedback about its grant program. Reasons for this undertaking included desire to: 1) better align Commission’s limited grant funding with community needs, 2) move toward greater efficiency for grant applicants, reviewers, and Commission, and 3) increase transparency associated with Commission’s funding availability, grant review process, and award decision making. Thank you to all who participated in these sessions and surveys.”
Call for Submissions for 2012 Athena Film Festival
Indie Wire
Submissions accepted June 15 – September 15
As you may know, I am the artistic director of the Athena Film Festival. The second festival will take place from February 9-12, 2012. We are opening our call for submissions today. Read the information carefully and spread it far and wide. Films have power. They create conversation. They reveal truths. They inspire. But for too many generations, Hollywood has told only half the story: too often, what is missing are the stories of women as change agents and heroes in their own right. For the second year, Barnard College, the most sought-after women’s college in the nation, will celebrate women’s leadership on screen at the Athena Film Festival which will take place from February 9-12, 2012.
National Film Preservation Foundation Invites Applications for Basic Preservation Grants
National Film Preservation Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: June 24
The National Film Preservation Foundation is inviting applications for the summer round of its Basic Preservation Grants. These grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions conducting laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials.
Tournées Festival Program Offers Grants to Bring Contemporary French Cinema to U.S. College Campuses
French American Cultural Exchange, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadlines: June 30, October 1
“FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary creative work in the context of French-American cultural and educational exchange, is accepting applications for the Tournées Festival, a program designed to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses in the United States. Now in its sixteenth year, the program distributes close to $200,000 in grants annually to encourage schools to begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals.”
Tournées Festival Program Offers Grants to Bring Contemporary French Cinema to U.S. College Campuses
French American Cultural Exchange, Philanthropy News Digest
June 30, October 1
“FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary creative work in the context of French-American cultural and educational exchange, is accepting applications for the Tournées Festival, a program designed to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses in the United States. Now in its sixteenth year, the program distributes close to $200,000 in grants annually to encourage schools to begin their own self-sustaining French film festivals.”
Tourism Cares Invites Letters of Inquiry for Worldwide Grants Program
Tourism Cares, Philanthropy News Digest
July 1 (Letter of Inquiry)
“Tourism Cares, a philanthropic organization of the tourism industry, works to preserve the travel experience for future generations. As part of this mission, the organization awards grants to preserve and facilitate access to important natural, cultural, and historic sites around the world.”
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Offers Funding for Film Festival Grants
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: July 1
“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Festival Grant program has awarded a total of $4.4 million to film festivals since 1999. Grants totaling $450,000 were granted to thirty U.S. film festivals in 2010. Grants are available only to U.S.-based film festivals that have been held on at least five occasions over at least five years. Screening programs, be they periodic screening series or end-of-term student screening programs, are not eligible to apply. Festivals that do not screen films in a theatrical setting also are not eligible to apply.”
Sappi Fine Paper North America Seeks Entries for Ideas That Matter Design Grant Program
Sappi Fine Paper, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: July 15
“Sappi Fine Paper North America has announced the 2011 call for entries for Ideas that Matter, an annual grant program that recognizes and supports designers who donate their time and talent to create communications materials for a wide range of charitable activities.”
Call for Artists
Great Lakes Art Fair
Deadline: July 29
“The Great Lakes Art Fair is the fastest growing indoor Art event in the Midwest. From its inception in Spring 2009 to the most recent event, attendance has more than doubled. Juried artist applications jumped more than 40 percent from Fall 2009 to Spring 2010. This Bi-Annual Fair offer fine artists in the region a reliable, regularly scheduled, “weather-free” marketplace to showcase their freshest and most beautiful work, and word is spreading rapidly that this is a destination event for artists and patron alike.”
ASCAP Foundation Accepting Letters of Intent for Music Grant Program
ASCAP Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: August 1 (Letters of Intent)
“The ASCAP Foundation is a publicly supported charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs. The foundation is accepting Letters of Intent for new 2012 grant funding from nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations engaged in music education and talent development programs for aspiring songwriters and composers.”
Mockingbird Foundation Invites Applications for Children's Music Education Program Grants
Mockingbird Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest
August 1
“The Mockingbird Foundation, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization created by fans of the rock band Phish, annually provides competitive grants to U.S. nonprofit organizations and public schools for children's music education programs. The foundation is accepting inquiries for its fifteenth round of competitive grants.”
National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Arts in Media Funding Category
National Endowment for the Arts, Philanthropy News Digest
September 1
“The National Endowment for the Arts' new Arts in Media funding category is designed to help make the excellence and diversity of the arts widely available to the American public through the national distribution of innovative media projects about the arts and media projects that can be considered works of art.”
First Peoples Fund Invites Applications for Artist in Business Leadership Program
First Peoples Fund, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: September 1
“The First Peoples Fund's Artist in Business Leadership Program is designed to help entrepreneurial Native American artists develop their marketing and business skills and build self-sustaining, arts-based businesses.”
Art, Video, Music, Writing Contests from WASB
DPI ConnectED
Deadlines: November, 2011
“The Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) has announced guidelines for its Student Art and Video contests (deadlines are in November), as well as its Music Showcase and Write and Illustrate Your Own Picture Book! competitions (deadlines are in June). Winning entries in each contest will be displayed at the 2012 State Education Convention, January 18-20 in Milwaukee (the top musical groups get to perform there). The Wisconsin Art Exhibits and Awards are open to public school students in grades 7-12. The WASB Student Video Contest gives students the opportunity to develop creative, thought-provoking videos individually, in a small group, or as a class project. Students must be in grades 7-12. Musical groups from grades 6-12 may send audition tapes to the Music Showcase. For Write and Illustrate Your Own Picture Book!, teachers submit up to 10 of the most exemplary picture books per classroom (any K-12 public school student is eligible). To hold these competitions, WASB collaborates with the Wisconsin Art Education Association, the Wisconsin Educational Media Technology Association, and the Wisconsin School Music Association.”
HUCalling all furniture makers & artisans!UH
KL Communications Invites Furniture Makers & Artisans to Exhibit in the 2011 Fine Furnishings & Fine Craft Shows
No deadline
TIVERTON, RI – KL Communications is pleased to invite artisans designing and handcrafting furniture, accessories, fine art & craft to apply to exhibit at the 2011 Fine Furnishings & Fine Craft Shows taking place in Baltimore (April 15-17, 2011), Milwaukee (September 30 – October 2, 2011), and Providence (October 21-23, 2011). These shows primarily present studio and custom furniture with home décor accessories such as lighting, floor coverings, and fine art as well as quality handcrafted jewelry, wearables, pottery, glass, sculpture, and more. Artisans from throughout North America working in all media are invited to apply for an invitation to exhibit and sell their work at any or all of the 2011 shows. Applications to exhibit can be downloaded from the “Exhibitor Info” heading at www.FineFurnishingsShows.com or call 401-816-0963 for more information.”
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