July 18, 2011 In The News | When You Go | Opportunities |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” - Lady Bird Johnson
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” - Thomas Carlyle
“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” - W. H. Auden
“Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.” - Ron Dentinger
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Step Inside a Performing Arts Workshop Classroom: Pre-Kindergarten at Visitacion Valley Family School
Performing Arts Workshop, Americans for the Arts
“The Workshop’s Artists-in-Schools program brings long-term performing arts experiences to youth in schools and child development centers. Artists-in-Schools prioritizes programming to schools with high populations of youth often referred to as at-risk. It is an effective and tested program that builds confidence, leadership, and respect in addition to other skills. Artists visit schools once a week for between 10-30 weeks, providing standards-aligned programming.”
TOP WISCONSIN NEWS
FROM THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD
We have arrived
Wisconsin Arts Board
The Wisconsin Arts Board’s staff and stuff have arrived at the Department of Tourism and this week we have been setting up our offices. The Department’s staff has been gracious and extremely helpful.
The transition has not been without bumps. For example, you may have discovered that our main telephone - number (608) 266-0190 – does not yet work. It will. Soon. Until then please reach out to staff directly. Here is the staff list:
George Tzougros, Executive Director, 608.267.2006, gtzougros@travelwisconsin.com
Karen Goeschko, Assistant Director, 608.267.2026, kgoeschko@travelwisconsin.com
Mark Fraire, Grant Programs & Services Specialist, 608.264-8191, mfraire@travelwisconsin.com
Chris Manke, Percent for Art Coordinator, 608.266-9737, cmanke@travelwisconsin.com
Anne Pryor, Folk and Traditional Arts Specialist, 608.266.8106, apryor@travelwisconsin.com
We thank you for your patience as we work through this transition.
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.”
Visual Arts/Museums
Neville Public Museum looks to increase visibility
Green Bay Press-Gazette
“The original USS Green Bay docked next to the Neville Public Museum of Brown County? It's one of the ideas being considered by the Museum Board as it seeks ways to increase the facility's visibility. "We need to get this museum out in the community," said Kramer Rock, a board member. Director Rolf Johnson, who was hired in April to rejuvenate community interest in the museum, said he is considering several strategies that he calls "part of the reintroduction of the community to the museum. We can do it better."”
Art & about: JMKAC's Midsummer Festival of Arts' luster hasn't dimmed
The Sheboygan Press
“Organizers of the Midsummer Festival of Arts say about 20,000 people from all over Wisconsin and northern Illinois are drawn to the free show each year to enjoy the music, food, visit the arts center and peruse the works of 151 artists from around the country — from canvas art to metal, wood sculptures, ceramics, glass, jewelry and clothing.”
Submit Your Ideas on IMLS's Strategic Plan
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Deadline: August 12
“IMLS is developing a strategic plan to guide our work and priorities over the next five years. Your input is important. The comment period will continue until Friday, August 12.”
Arts and Creativity in Education
Band Together helps aspiring young musicians do just that
OnMiilwaukee.com
“Parents of kids who take up classical instruments like violin, trumpet or piano generally have good insurance that their money is well invested. Between school programs, community bands and even college majors, their kids have ample opportunity to make good use of their musical talents. But for parents of kids who dream of rocking out to sold-out crowds on a guitar, bass or drum set, opportunities are more limited. It was with this in mind that local musician and teacher Ryan Schiedermayer joined with Cascio Interstate Music in New Berlin to create Band Together, a program focused on giving promising young musicians a chance to learn more about the business of being in a band.
UW-Madison students chosen for high-tech, high-stakes competition
Wisconsin State Journal
“For these four UW-Madison students, what began as an introduction in a virtual reality class morphed into a real-life trip to Disneyland — and a behind-the-scenes look at the technology behind the fantasy of the Magic Kingdom. Liana Zorn, Joe Kohlmann, Rachina Ahuja and Samuel Sclenker were among 20 college students this summer chosen from across the U.S. by Walt Disney Imagineering to travel to Glendale, Calif., as part of Disney's ImagiNations Competition, a talent search of sorts.”
Are Federal i3 Grants Right for My Arts Education Program?
ARTSBlog, Americans for the Arts
“As I had been preparing some blog posts on the topic of Investing in Innovation (i3), I decided at the very last minute to sit in on an Education Week webinar about i3. It turns out that it was very worthwhile, as one of the featured speakers was John Bridges from Beaverton School District in Oregon, highlighting their Arts for Learning program. The webinar accomplished much of what I had hoped to do with my blogs – disseminate information from last year’s awardees about what made their application successful and encourage (or discourage) people to apply.”
Ah But I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now
Barry’s Blog, WESTAF
“Next Week begins a Four Part Intensive Dialogue and Discussion on Arts Education and the whole range of attendant issues -hosted by myself and Julie Fry from the Hewlett Foundation - featuring 30+ leaders from across the field. I believe this will be a very important forum and exchange of ideas and hope you will follow along over the course of the next month. The conversations among the participants will be along these four broad categories (one per week – with subtopics and specific questions): Practice, Field Building, Policy and Research.”
Community Arts
Good Grant Award
The Donors Forum of Wisconsin
Deadline: September 6
“The Donors Forum of Wisconsin is excited to inform you that we have opened this year's Good Grant Award application cycle. Each year, we invite you to submit nominees for the annual Good Grant Award. The award honors funders and grantees that have demonstrated leadership through a creative partnership by working together for the greater good. Recipients of the award will receive a $5,000 grant and two complimentary tickets to the Statewide Conference in recognition of their work.”
White Paper: The Color Line and US Cultural Policy: An Essay With Dialogue, by Roberto Bedoya.
National Alliance for Media Art and Culture
“From time to time, NAMAC publishes white papers on issues of relevance to the cultural sector. Roberto Bedoya, Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, wrote a paper entitled, "The Color Line and US Cultural Policy," that we are offering as a downloadable pdf.”
The .pdf may be found here.
Literary/Libraries
Nun writes book about saving Congolese couple from deportation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Four years ago Regina and David Bakala, who had suffered torture in their native Congo and faced years of uncertainty in the United States, stood before an immigration judge in Chicago and heard the words they had waited so long to hear. "I'm pleased to grant your joint application for asylum and hope you will have a long and happy life in the U.S.," Immigration Judge O. John Brahos said. The words brought tears of joy to everyone in the courtroom.”
Executive Q&A: Carving a niche on the top shelf
Wisconsin State Journal
“To speak of the publishing world evokes a world of high-level meetings and high-falutin' cocktail parties. But given the publishing world's challenges these days, maybe that's not the best model. Caroline Beckett and Frank Sandner take a different approach with Itchy Cat Press, their book publishing company based in their Blue Mounds home. For almost a decade, they've published books of regional interest at a rate of one or two a year while forging strong relationships with not just the authors, but other small publishers.”
Myth vs. Fact: Who are Today's Library Computer Users?: A Demographic Analysis of Public Access Computer Users and Uses in U.S. Public Libraries
Institute for Museum and Library Services
“Public access computers in U.S. public libraries continue to be in high demand according to Who's in the Queue: Public Access Computer Users, a new research brief by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The report dispels some myths that have lingered regarding the target service population for public access computers in U.S. public libraries. “This study challenges commonly held perceptions about library users and demonstrates public libraries’ role in the global information economy,” said Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director. “Libraries are constantly reinventing themselves to meet the ever-changing information needs of their communities.”
Find the full report here.
Grant Awards Announcement: Native American Library Services Basic Grant and Basic Grant with Education/Assessment Option Program
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Washington, DC – “The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today 215 awards totaling $1,531,000 for the Native American Library Services Basic Grant and Basic Grant with Education/Assessment Option Program. IMLS received 219 applications requesting $1,570,000 in funds. “Tribal libraries play a vital role in ensuring the educational and cultural preservation of their communities. This funding helps American Indian and Alaska Native libraries to maintain and expand their core services,” said IMLS Director Susan Hildreth.”
The Wisconsin Arts Board congratulates these Wisconsin award recipients.
Media Arts
'Harry Potter' finale by the (record-setting) numbers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“How big a deal was the opening weekend for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2"? As they say on public radio's "Marketplace," let's do the numbers. As reported earlier, "Part 2" took in $168.6 million in North America, breaking the opening-weekend record set in 2008 by "The Dark Knight" ($158.4 million). Other records set by the "Harry Potter" finale this weekend:”
Manitowoc native among 5 nominees for original dramatic score
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
MANITOWOC - “Manitowoc native Garth Neustadter, a Manitowoc Lutheran graduate who's pursuing music education at Yale University as a graduate student, received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Neustadter was among five nominees for original dramatic score in the Outstanding Music Composition category for his work on the American Masters documentary "John Muir in the New World," which aired in April on PBS.”
Iowa pays London firm $450,000 to ditch movies
Racine Journal Times, AP
“Iowa has paid London filmmakers $450,000 to cancel plans to shoot a movie there about a flesh-eating lake monster and other films that could have qualified for millions of dollars in tax credits, newly released public records show.”
Performing Arts
Music
Milwaukee Choral Artists Named Finalist in American Prize
Milwaukee Choral Artists (no link)
“The Milwaukee Choral Artists is pleased to announce that it has been named a finalist in the 2011 American Prize in Choral Performance. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit national competitions unique in scope and structure, providing cash awards, professional adjudication, and regional, national, and international recognition. Each year, The American Prize rewards the best recorded performances of music by individuals and ensembles in the United States at the professional, community/amateur, college/university, church, and school levels. The American Prize in Choral Performance recognizes and rewards the best performances by choruses in America, based on submitted applications. The finalists in the Professional Chorus category are: Milwaukee Choral Artists, Sharon Hansen, Founder and Music Director, Milwaukee, WI; Washington Bach Consort, J. Reilly Lewis, Founder and Music Director, Washington, DC; Sinfonia Voci, Daniel Abraham, Conductor & Artistic Director, Washington, DC; and The Princeton Singers, Steven Sametz, Artistic Director, Princeton, NJ.”
Classical Music: Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park was a big hit. Next year’s Madison Early Music Festival will explore Thomas Jefferson’s library and early music north of Mexico.
The Well-Tempered Ear
“Despite the heat and humidity Saturday night, the Madison Opera‘s 10th annual Opera in the Park, which wrapped up the company’s 50th anniversary season and marked the beginning of Kathryn Smith‘s tenure as general director — but which The Ear unfortunately couldn’t attend — drew rave reviews.”
Celebrating a decade of Madison Opera al fresco
The Capital Times
“New general director Kathryn Smith could not have asked for better weather than she got on Saturday night at Madison Opera’s 10th annual Opera in the Park. The air was warm with a slight breeze as we hiked to our picnic spot on the Garner Park hill, about a football field away from the main stage. Smith, who replaced Allan Naplan two weeks ago, welcomed the crowd, estimated in the thousands.”
Boomer Q&A: Retired insurance executive turns his focus to music
Wausau Daily Herald
“John Baker is among the first class of baby boomers. Now 65 years old, Baker was born in 1946, considered the inaugural year of the boomer generation. He's also among the first of his generation to enjoy retirement. Baker, a retired insurance executive since 2009, has jumped into his newfound free time with plenty of plans. A longtime drummer, Baker continues to play concerts, weddings and any other gigs that his band, The Peoples Choice, lands. For him, this is the best way to spend his time -- playing music with friends from his college days at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.”
Other
Why Do We Do This?
Blog: Michael Kaiser, The Huffington Post
”This is the most difficult time to be an arts manager in my 26 years in the profession. The development of new technology has given our audience members new forms of entertainment and new ways to spend their discretionary time and money. This has made it far more difficult to sell tickets at prices that cover most, if not all, of the cost of production. People now entertain themselves with iPads, iPods, iPhones and numerous other electronic devices. They are entertained for so little money that high-priced performance tickets lose their appeal.”
Visual Arts/Museums
"Things on Strings" on display at the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 22 – August 13
“The “Things on Strings” exhibit will feature hanging sculpture, strung up from the ceiling at the headquarters for the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network , or MARN. Close How do you get the art of more than 30 artists into a modestly sized exhibition space with limited room on the walls? Well, why not use air space? The "Things on Strings" exhibit will feature hanging sculpture, strung up from the ceiling at the headquarters for the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network, or MARN. The lighthearted show is the brainchild of Becky Tesch, who has been a curatorial protégé for MARN for the last year, working with Mark Lawson, the director of galleries at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.”
Community Arts
This week's openings and closings
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Various
Folk Arts/Folklife
Pulaski Polka Days to honor star
Green Bay Press-Gazette
July 21 – 24
PULASKI – “Pulaski Polka Days this week will give a tip of the hat to Eddie Blazonczyk Sr., the polka star who helped put the festival on the map. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people are expected at the events spread over four days throughout the village.”
Media Arts
Hour contest is demanding
Wisconsin State Journal
July 21, 29
“Triathletes have the Ironman. Filmmakers have the 48 Hour Film Project. The two-day endurance event of cinema creation was scheduled to kick off Friday, with about two dozen Madison teams and their video cameras being given a genre, a prop, a character, a line of dialogue and a mere two days to create an entertaining or profound short film for a competition that reaches around the world.”
MARNkino
Milwaukee Artists Resource Network
July 21
“Kino in Milwaukee! The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network is proud to announce: MARNkino. This new collaborative cinema group will be one of only three "Kino cells" in the U.S. MARN Kino will kick off with its first monthly open screening of locally-produced short films on July 21 at the Times Cinema.”
George Lucas, Harrison Ford Expected At AirVenture
Channel 3000.com
July 25 Through July 31
OSHKOSH – “There will be some celebrities visiting this year's Experimental Aircraft Association's convention in Oshkosh. Actor Harrison Ford, an avid pilot and former EAA Young Eagles chairman, will introduce his 1993 movie, "Clear and Present Danger," on July 27.”
Wisconsin River documentary to be screened
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 29
“You don't have to sit in front of the television at home to watch a documentary on the Lower Wisconsin River. You can watch it with the people who appear in the film during a screening at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Blaine Theatre in Boscobel. The documentary "The Rhythm of the River" features a soundtrack by musicians who live along the river and narration by Sarah Day of American Players Theatre in Spring Green.”
Performing Arts
Music
Time Is Of The Essence On Thursday In Bayfield
Ashland Current
July 21
“Summer (Mostly) Thursdays, a fresh series of concerts offering a broad range of music in a variety of settings around Bayfield, continues Thurs., July 21, from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., at the Bayfield Presbyterian Church, in Bayfield.”
Special performers close Green Lake Festival of Music
Fond du Lac Reporter
July 22 – 24
“A German group, a world-class organist and a choral finale will conclude this year's Green Lake Festival of Music. The 32nd annual music series ends with a weekend of performances Friday, July 22, through Sunday, July 24.”
NEW Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant and Fellowship Program Offers Support for Science and Technology Film Projects
Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: September 9
“To support the development of screenplays with science or technology themes, the Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation annually provide opportunities for both emerging and established filmmakers through a commissioning grant and fellowship. The program is designed to further the development of film projects focused on stories grounded in current (or past) science and technology. The program does not support science fiction projects. (Stories taking place in the future or involving science that is clearly not yet achievable would be considered science fiction.)”
NEW John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Offers Fellowships for Artists and Scholars
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: September 17
“The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. The fellowships are intended to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”
Call for Submissions for 2012 Athena Film Festival
Indie Wire
Submissions accepted through 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.
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.”
Tournées Festival Program Offers Grants to Bring Contemporary French Cinema to U.S. College Campuses
French American Cultural Exchange, Philanthropy News Digest
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.”
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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