July 19, 2011 In The News | When You Go | Opportunities |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.” - Samuel Johnson
“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.” - Albert Einstein
“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.” - André Maurois
“It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.” - Edgar Degas
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Irish exchange students take MPS kids on nature walk
WITI-TV
MILWAUKEE – “Religious conflict has divided the people of Northern Ireland for hundreds of years. Working to bridge the gap, a group of Irish teenagers are doing a summer service project in Milwaukee. At the Lions Den Gorge Nature Preserve in Grafton, teens from different races and religions are all unified under one cause. They're helping MPS kids from Tippecanoe and Dover Schools lean the importance of nature and art.”
TOP WISCONSIN NEWS
FROM THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD
Janie’s got a gun, unless her employer forbids it
Milwaukee Biz Blog, BizTimes Daily
“On July 8, 2011, Gov. Scott Walker signed into law new legislation permitting licensed individuals to carry concealed weapons. The law will go into effect on the first day of the fourth month beginning after publication; meaning if the bill is published in July as planned, it should go into effect on Nov. 1, 2011. To ban weapons, businesses (including hospitals, clinics and nursing homes) will need to post signs. Additionally, employers should consider reviewing and revising workplace weapons policies.”
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces New Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries
National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC – “Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA research note that examines the value added by three selected cultural industries: (1) performing arts, sports, and museums; (2) motion pictures and sound recording; and (3) publishing (including software). Combined, these three cultural industries contributed a total of $278.4 billion to the U.S. economy in 2009. The NEA research note also looks at dollars and jobs added to individual state economies by these cultural industries.”
How Not to Get a Grant: Top 10 Grantwriting Mistakes
El Pomar, Americans for the Arts
“Seeking foundation funding can be challenging. Everybody’s standard is a little different, and meeting the standards gets time-consuming. Here’s an inside look at one expert’s top 10 grantwriting mistakes… courtesy of El Pomar Vice President Matt Carpenter.”
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.”
IN THE NEWS
Visual Arts/Museums
WWNH: Offering support to many area artists
River Falls Journal
“ Artists tend to be solitary souls in search of their particular reasons for being, while endeavoring to express ideas they hope will resonate with others. Regrettably, isolation may also be an affliction that puts an artist at risk of losing heart and aborting creative possibilities. That’s why the concept of a group of artists working together over an extended period of time is so important. Such an artists’ group, known as What We Need is Here (WWNH), has existed for the last several years under the umbrella of The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, and organized by its artistic director, Anastasia Shartin.”
Lopsided wings at Milwaukee Art Museum surprise onlookers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Fanning up like a pair of wings against Lake Michigan, the signature brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum is unlike anything on the planet. So when the majestic icon rises in a lopsided fashion, as it did Monday, it's bound to attract attention.”
Arts and Creativity in Education
Brian Wicklund and the Barley Jacks
Blog: PortalWisconsin.org
“Music has never been finer. That would be a take on my concert experience two weeks ago. I could have stayed all night. Let me explain. I went to Brian Wicklund’s camp in Marine on St. Croix in June. Ninety-five budding musicians met in a church 6 hours a day for 4 days in hopes of coming out the other side challenged, motivated, and inspired. This is the third year of the camp and it continues to escalate in number of participants. The ages ranged from 6 to ……let’s just say gray-haired. We don’t need to go there. There were fiddlers, mandolin players, guitarists and my group…the bass players. Okay, I’m not really a bass player. I took my cello and pretended to be a bass player for the week. Personally, I think I was in the coolest group. There is a cool factor to the bass group no matter where you are. This week was no exception particularly with Kevin Rowe at the helm. The man is amazing with a bass.”
Movie spurs growth in wizard academy
Wausau Daily Herald
“It was just good luck that the opening of the movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" coincided with the Wizarding Academy offered at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. The Wizarding Academy, a summer program that blends the world of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter with academic pursuits such as writing, art, science and critical thinking, has been held in late July for four years, so there was no overt plan to link it to the buzz created by the movie, which opened at midnight on Thursday.”
Supporters lead the march to stronger band group
Greenfield Now
“After years of seeing the numbers languishing, but not the quality of the high school marching band, the Whitnall School Board is on the verge of trying to build up the band again. A committee may be formed to take a holistic look at the entire music program with an eye to enabling the marching band to expand.”
Regional body created to judge student writing in national contest
Racine Journal Times
“Racine and Kenosha county students will now have a better chance of getting writing recognized in the annual Scholastic Writing Awards contest. A new regional judging body has been created. Called the Southeast Wisconsin Scholastic Writing Region, the judging body is an affiliate of the national nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which conducts the annual Scholastic Writing Awards, said LuAnn Underwood, regional coordinator for the local region.”
Workshops give Valley students a taste of the arts
Appleton Post-Crescent
“Talent scout, producer and educator Peter Sklar has worked for at least three decades to help audiences get to know up-and-coming performers including Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon and Mischa Barton. …In April, Sklar visited Valley Academy for the Arts in Neenah to hold a presentation on earning a living in the performing arts for dance, drama and music students and their families. He also conducted casual interviews with 26 students to audition them for Beginnings workshops.”
Community Arts
Mount Horeb: home to trollway, tool museum
Roads Traveled
“Trolls rule in Mount Horeb, a peculiar, creative and vibrant Dane County village of 7,000. The scruffy, impish troll carvings – happy-crazed-creepy in expression, dwarfs to giants in size – have defined and guarded the community since the 1970s. …Now the untimely death of a former machinist, antiques dealer and community leader has widened the scope of Mount Horeb’s quirks to another species of outdoor art. Flanked by trolls at the visitors’ center is Brutus the Temple Lion, a rusty, fierce- and dazed-looking monster made of welded junkyard scraps.”
Media Arts
Army of One: Making a movie for the 2011 48 Hour Film Project: Madison
Isthmus
“ In all my years as a singer in a struggling rock band I somehow managed to avoid pay-to-play venues. The movie business, on the other hand, is always pay to play and the $175.00 admission fee I fork over to participate in this year's 48 Hour Film Project: Madison makes the little movie I created this weekend my biggest budget film to date. Here's how it went down:”
Art Museum Transforms
OnMilwaukee.com
“Is the Milwaukee Art Museum--A TRANSFORMER!? I was surprised how well Milwaukee and the Art Museum worked as a setting in TRANSFORMERS Dark of the Moon. Seeing the museum and Milwaukee in [3D] was a near ‘spiritual' moment filled with town pride and the unmistakable rush of knowing "Yeah I been there like a thousand times!"”
Performing Arts
Dance
Dance workshop promotes message of hard work, positivity
Janesville Gazette
JANESVILLE – “Peterson Thelisma never stopped moving. The music raced, crashed, pounded. Thelisma never tired. He never rushed. He danced for hours, shouting encouragement to a room full of students. This was hard work, but the 25-year-old Thelisma never stopped grinning. That’s because Thelisma’s message is bigger than dancing, said Earl Smith of Loyalty La Famila Management.”
Music
UWEC Professor Records Work of Croatian Legend
Volume One Magazine
“Accomplished pianist and assistant professor of music at UW-Eau Claire, Nicholas Phillips, recently released a CD celebrating the music of Croatian composer, Boris Papandopulo. Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music, produced by Albany Records, features piano music written by the Croatian composer and performed by Phillips.”
Classical Connections: Opera in the Park: Joy, Everywhere You Looked
Blog: Dane 101
“The typical opera outdoors event of summer is usually a fairly predictable, if enjoyable, event: a frothy overture, a few big hits liberally mixed with Broadway tunes, and one hopes that a few of the folks come back to check out the “real thing” in the fall. But as Opera in the Park celebrated their 10th free event in Garner Park on Saturday, they managed to elevate the tried and true into an event that looked back over their fifty year history, honored their roots and remembered a beloved operatic evangelist, introduced the new General Director, added a couple of major programming treats — and best of all, gave us a generous preview of exactly what we can expect at Overture Hall this coming season.”
Presenting
Summerfest posts increase in attendance, revenue
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Attendance at Summerfest 2011 edged close to the 900,000 mark, and the nonprofit Milwaukee World Festival Inc. reported Monday that revenue from ticket, food and drink sales also increased over last year. The final attendance figure - 878,636 over the 11-day run - was 2.6% higher than the turnout in 2010.”
WHEN YOU GO
Visual Arts/Museums
MAD :: Creative >> Connect :: Campfire!
AIGA Wisconsin
July 28
“We’ve all had a horrible client or two. Join us for a summer evening by the fire as we share our very own Design Horror Stories! Share a story or bring a design you hate – that the client inevitably chose – to throw into the fire.”
Morning Blend
AIGA Wisconsin
August 2
“Calling all Madisonians! We want to hear from you! With the recent changing of the guard, the new officers want to learn what AIGA means to you. Maybe it's all about learning new things. Maybe it's about meeting new people.”
Community Arts
On Stage 7/19-25: Can’t take our eyes off these shows
ThirdCoast Digest
July 19 – 25
“Thanks to the uncultured savages running programming over at MTV and Bravo these days, thinking of anyone from Jersey makes me genuinely embarrassed for the entire human race. I hope Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning musical opening Wednesday at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, will be able to erase some of Jersey’s shame.”
Milwaukee's first urban island party
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
August 4
“The Facebook announcement sums it up nicely: 2,000 friends, 1 island, 1 night, and a 200 pound pig. What is it? It's Milwaukee's first urban Island beach party on Aug. 4 (rain date is Aug. 11) from 6 to 9 p.m. Why didn't anyone think of that before? Created by ART Milwaukee, NEWaukee and the Friends of Lakeshore State Park, the event will benefit the park for a future facility on the island, near the Summerfest grounds.”
Literary/Libraries
Wisconsin Book Festival Benefit
Isthmus
July 21
“WPR's Jean Feraca to Host Benefit Reading for the Wisconsin Book Festival with award-winning. Madison-area residents will have the rare chance to hear award-winning Wisconsin authors CJ Hribal, Judith Claire Mitchell and Agate Nesaule read from their current works-in-progress, beginning at 7 p.m., July 21, 2011 at the Goodman Community Center.”
Performing Arts
Dance
Point Tap Festival 2011 heats up at UW-Stevens Point
UW Stevens Point
August 11 - 13
“Tap dancers will converge at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point August 11-13 for the Point Tap Festival 2011, three days of intensive study with renowned tap masters from New York, Boston and Chicago. The festival draws advanced tap dancers from across the country.”
Local briefs
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Various
“Dance classes to be offered” and “Children’s dance classes scheduled”
Theater
Single tickets for Milwaukee Rep's 'Lombardi' go on sale July 29
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 11 – November 13
“Single tickets for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of "Lombardi" will go on sale July 29, the theater company has announced. The Rep will perform "Lombardi," a drama about the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, Oct. 11 through Nov. 13 at its Powerhouse Theater, 108 E. Wells St.”
OPPORTUNITIES
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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