Wisconsin Arts News
A service of the Wisconsin Arts Board
February 17, 2010
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"An educational foundation is only part of theequation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age." First Lady, Michelle Obama
WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD
Why My Peers Are Angry With Me
Michael Kaiser Blog/Huffington Press
“Many arts managers are angry with me. They do not appreciate my advice not to cut programming during this recession. I continue to say that creating large, important projects is central to creating fiscal health. Especially when there is less money for the arts (and there is less money for the arts today), arts organizations must compete harder. As donors decide which organizations to continue to support, the institutions that are doing vital, important work are the ones who will continue to be supported. Not only must the work be interesting but the marketing of that work and of the institution as a whole must be aggressive and creative.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-kaiser/why-my-peers-are-angry-wi_b_463576.html
Obama appoints painter, novelist and four non-artists to President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanties
Los Angeles Times
“President Obama has picked six people to join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanties; two of them, painter-photographer Chuck Close and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri, will become the first visual artist and writer on an advisory panel weighted with actors and business people. No one is sure what this committee actually does.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/obama-appoints-painter-novelist-and-four-nonartists-to-advisory-committe-on-arts-and-humanities.html
FY11 Creation and Presentation grant program deadline is fast approaching!
Wisconsin Arts Board
Deadline: February 22, 2010, 3 PM CST
The deadline for FY 11 Creation and Presentation awards in February 22. On year applicants must complete the full application. Off year applicants (music, theater, opera/music theatre) must complete also complete and submit their off year application by this deadline. Note that the deadline is 3PM on the due date.
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/cpp.htm <blocked::http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/cpp.htm>
The Wisconsin Arts Board will offer four general Question and Answer sessions via conference call for grant applicants.
February 24 from Noon until 12:45 pm
February 24 from 6:00 until 6:45 pm
Two sessions will be held for Creative Communities program applicants. Participation on these Q&A conference calls is NOT required, but is offered for those who would find them helpful. We anticipate that the sessions will last no longer than 45 minutes... less if the questions are few and quickly answered. To participate, please contact karen.goeschko@wisconsin.gov <blocked::mailto:karen.goeschko@wisconsin.gov> or 608-266-0190.
Nominations Invited for Best Companies Supporting the Arts in America
Business Committee for the Arts, Philanthropy News Digest
Deadline: February 26
“The Business Committee for the Arts is accepting nominations for the BCA Ten: Best Companies Supporting the Arts in America. Announced annually, the BCA Ten is a national list created to recognize businesses of all sizes for their exceptional involvement with the arts. …Award information and nomination forms are available at the BCA Web site.”
http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/arts_and_business_partnerships/bca/programs/bca_ten/default.asp
Americans for the Arts' Professional Development Fund for Emerging Arts Leaders of Color
Americans for the Arts
Deadline: March 1, 2010
“Americans for the Arts is pleased to announce applications for Americans for the Arts' Professional Development Fund for Emerging Arts Leaders of Color. A total of five Joyce Fellows from the Great Lakes region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) will be selected to participate in this program in 2010. Fellows will receive stipends of $3,000 to support their attendance at the 2010 Americans for the Arts 50th Anniversary Summit/Annual Convention, 2010 National Arts Marketing Project Conference, and 2011 Arts Advocacy Day. In addition, fellows will have special opportunities to meet field leaders, connect with mentors, and receive individualized career coaching. Support for this program is provided by the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation.”
http://www.americansforthearts.org/networks/emerging_leaders/009.asp
Arts Day 2010
Arts Wisconsin
March 3
Support arts and arts education opportunities for everyone, everywhere in Wisconsin. Arts Day will take place at Monona Terrace and State Capitol, Madison. Pre-Arts Day workshops on Tuesday, March 2.
http://www.artswisconsin.org/events/artsday2010.cfm
Poetry Out Loud State Finals to Take Place
March 13
Wisconsin Arts Board is pleased to announce that the Poetry Out Loud State Finals will take place in the Assembly Chambers of the State Capitol Building at 1:00 PM, Saturday, March 13. The public is invited to attend this competition. Jim Fleming of Wisconsin Public Radio will serve as Emcee. Marilyn Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin; Fabu Brisco Carter, Poet Laureate of Madison have graciously agreed to serve as Judges for this event. Nine state regional champions will be reciting three memorized poems each. The winner for the State of Wisconsin will receive a check for $200 for personal use, a check for $500 for their school library fund for poetry books, and free trip for them and a chaperone to the National Finals in Washington, DC, April 25-27 where over $50,000 in scholarships will be awarded. Questions may be directed to Jacki Martindale, state coordinator, contact at jmpmartindale@gmail.com . or 608-318-0551.
The Wisconsin Arts Board’s Percent for Art program announces a commission opportunity for the new UW-La Crosse Academic Building.
Deadline: March 15
The selection committee is seeking artwork that may be sited in multiple locations throughout the interior and/or the exterior of the new facility; and they are interested in exploring artwork that could reveal itself and change over time along with more traditional approaches. The submission deadline for this project is March 15, 2010. Here is the link to the prospectus: http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/percent/project_05I3O.htm
If you have trouble viewing this prospectus, please cut and paste the link into your browser first. If that is not successful, please contact our IT specialist, Dale Johnson at dale.johnson@wisconsin.gov for assistance. If you have questions about the content of the prospectus, please contact chris.manke@wisconsin.gov.
FY11 Creative Communities Program eGRANT application is now available.
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/ccp.html
Questions?
CCP Arts Education component: Anne Pryor, anne.pryor@wisconsin.gov or 608/266-8106.
CCP Local Arts component: Karen Goeschko, karen.goeschko@wisconsin.gov or 608/267-2026.
CCP Folk Arts component: Anne Pryor, anne.pryor@wisconsin.gov or 608/266-8106.
Technical questions or problems concerning eGRANT:
Dale Johnson via email or phone: dale.johnson@wisconsin.gov or 608/261-8217.
IN THE NEWS
Visual Arts/Museums
Racine Art Museum announces new curator
Racine Journal Times
RACINE - The Racine Art Museum (RAM) announces the appointment of Lena Vigna as its new curator of exhibitions. She will begin her position at RAM March 1. Vigna served as the curator of exhibitions and department head at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan from 2001 to 2008. Vigna has her BFA and MA degrees in art history. She worked at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art prior to moving to Wisconsin in 2001. Vigna moved to the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio in 2008.
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_b1863a88-1b59-11df-8391-001cc4c03286.html
Brandeis Continues To Cut Its Budget, Boding Ill For The Rose
Blog: Real Clear Arts - Judith H. Dobrzynski
“If you want good press, it helps to be on the side of angels -- as Michael Rush was last year when, as director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, he mobilized against the University's attempt to close the Rose and sell its collection. Rush, you'll recall, did not have his contract renewed and since then, well -- you can read about what he's been up to in today's Boston Globe (here). It was, ahem, a Valentine on the occasion of Rush's guest-curating of Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde at MIT's List Visual Arts Center, among other things. In the article, he reveals a few more weird goings-on, last year, at Brandeis.”
http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2010/02/brandeis-update.html
State urged to investigate Fresno Met auction
Fresno Bee
“A local attorney is asking the state Attorney General's Office to investigate whether it is proper for the Fresno Metropolitan Museum to sell off its collection to satisfy its debts. Fresno attorney Robert Rosati's action comes as the museum is scheduled to auction its non-art property today, with proceeds going toward the $4 million in debt that led in part to the museum's demise last month. Rosati claims that The Met, in being granted nonprofit status, agreed that its assets were public and would be used for public purposes. If the museum ever dissolved, Rosati contends, its assets should continue to be used for a public purpose.”
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1824721.html
Arts and Creativity in Education
Golden notes - Donation will give rise to concert hall
Kenosha News
SOMERS — “The University of Wisconsin-Parkside has never had a true concert hall since its founding 41 years ago, when Frances Bedford first started teaching music on campus. “It would have made a tremendous difference. I would have loved to have had the opportunity. But now, others can have it,” Bedford said Tuesday after a groundbreaking ceremony for a $34 million project to remodel and expand the Communication Arts Building and improve other facilities. Thanks in part to her $500,000 donation to the UW-Parkside Foundation, the expansion will include the 340-seat Frances Bedford Concert Hall designed specifically for musical performance, something sorely lacking. That’s not just according to Bedford, who taught at Parkside from 1970-1994 before retiring as a full professor; it was the consensus shared Tuesday by faculty, students, administrators and Chancellor Deborah Ford.”
http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/golden_notes_7361417.html
Northwestern performs 'Wizard of Oz' flawlessly
Superior Telegram
“Sunday’s white-out snow conditions in Maple did not hinder a full house for Northwestern High Schools’ presentation of “The Wizard of Oz.” Co-Directors Pat Luostari and Michael Goodlet led over 70 students as performers, musicians, and stage crew in a flawless two-hour performance.”
http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/4020
Multimedia digital arts program being modified for fall
Royal Purple/UW Whitewater
“The College of Arts and Communication is revising its Multimedia Digital Arts program to give it a new look beginning fall 2010. The program is a revision of the Multimedia Digital Arts major that began in 2005. Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Communication Richard Haven said the program was revised to become Media Arts and Game Development. The new 42-credit program will focus more on game development and offer students a new type of learning experience. After completing 15 credits of core classes, students will choose one of three threads, or specific areas of study to follow. "It's not viewed as a separate emphasis," Haven said.”
http://media.www.royalpurplenews.com/media/storage/paper1225/news/2010/02/17/News/Multimedia.Digital.Arts.Program.Being.Modified.For.Fall-3873051.shtml
Public lectures have become a hot ticket: who'd have known?University lectures are available on iTunes, there's the new Yarn storytelling festival and I've already been to three public talks this year. Can anyone explain this bout of self-improvement?
Guardian UK
“I'm not sure that five years ago one could have accurately predicted how popular the public lecture would become. You'd think: I gave up listening to people droning on at the front of the room when I left university. It's all a bit self-improvement-in-EM-Forster, isn't it? And yet, somehow without planning to do so, or even self-consciously getting all Helen Schlegel about it, I've been to three public lectures this year: Will Self giving the 2010 Sebald lecture at Kings Place in London, Neil MacGregor speaking in the first of a new series of London Review of Books winter lectures at the British Museum, and Susan Philipsz giving a talk in advance of the major installation she is creating for Glasgow International festival of visual art in April. The first two were sell-outs, and Philipsz's talk, given in a hard-to-find corner of Glasgow University, had a near-capacity, alert and beady audience. Next week I am off to hear Rory Stewart talk in the LRB series at the British Museum, so clearly I've a capacity for this kind of thing I never quite imagined.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/feb/10/public-lectures-will-self-itunesu
Literary
Redbrid-Redoak to offer Writer's Roundtables at Oconomowoc Art Gallery
Living Lake Country
“Writing is a solitary pursuit, but it doesn’t have to be an isolating one,” states Kim Suhr, director of RedBird-RedOak Writing, an organization dedicated to nurturing working writers. “That’s why the Roundtable groups at our Milwaukee studio have been so popular. Now we can offer the same camaraderie and support to writers in the Lake Country area.” The organization will offer twice-monthly Roundtables at the AC Toyer Gallery at 148 E. Wisconsin in downtown Oconomowoc. “Angel Troyer has created a wonderful, energetic space for local artists to show and sell their work. We feel very fortunate to be able to bring writers into this space to get feedback and inspiration in their genre of choice.”
http://www.livinglakecountry.com/userstoriessubmitted/84502797.html
Plagiarism: The next generation - A 17-year-old novelist defends herself in the latest copycat scandal. Are we just too old to understand?
Salon
“Recent plagiarism accusations against the 17-year-old author of a German novel feel like déjà vu all over again, with one key distinction: Helene Hegemann, who wrote the best-selling tale of drugging and clubbing, "Axolotl Roadkill," is defending the practice, telling one German newspaper, "I myself don't feel it is stealing, because I put all the material into a completely different and unique context and from the outset consistently promoted the fact that none of that is actually by me." Hegemann lifted as much as a full page of text from an obscure, independently published novel, "Strobo," by a blogger known as Airen. Another German blogger, Deef Pirmasens, was the first to point out the passages from "Axolotl Roadkill" that are said to be largely duplicated from "Strobo," with small changes. Despite the uproar caused by this revelation, "Axolotl Roadkill" has been selling better than ever and has been nominated for the $20,000 fiction prize at the Leipzig Book Fair.”
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/02/16/hegemann/index.html
James Patterson to Create Comic Books
New York Times
“The cover of the James Patterson novel “Witch & Wizard,” which is being adapted into a comic-book series.Having conquered the best-seller lists with prose novels, James Patterson, the blockbuster thriller writer, wants a new audience: comic book fans. In a deal with IDW Publishing, Mr. Patterson, the author of the popular Alex Cross and Maximum Ride series, will offer two series of comic books based on previously published books as well as an original comic based on a story concept, “Beer Belly and Fat Boy,” that he developed for a video game.”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/james-patterson-to-create-comic-books/
THE PICTURE: Changeless
New Republic
“Driving across New Hampshire one day last August, alone with my thoughts and the birch trees and the distant mountains, the world felt changeless; the year could as easily have been 1969 as 2009. I stopped in a few rather decrepit antique shops to look for old stuff, as is my wont. And although I’d never visited these particular places before, they were probably much as they had been a decade or even a generation ago, perhaps a little shabbier. It was in a barn packed with junk, on some shelves of moldy books, that I picked up for two dollars a battered copy of a novel about our obsession with change, about the need to make distinctive claims for each generation, each decade, even each year. The book is Rose Macaulay’s Told by an Idiot, a brilliant novel, comic and lyrical, which relates the story of three generations of the Garden family, from 1879 until years after World War I; it was published in 1923.”
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-picture-changeless
Media Arts
Privacy group seeks Buzz changes through FTC
CNET News
“The privacy group on Tuesday filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission seeking new constraints on Google's social-networking service. "This complaint concerns an attempt by Google, Inc., the provider of a widely used email service to convert the private, personal information of Gmail subscribers into public information for the company's social network service Google Buzz," the complaint (PDF) reads. "This change in business practices and service terms violated user privacy expectations, diminished user privacy, contradicted Google's own privacy policy, and may have also violated federal wiretap laws."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000076-264.html
The Adults Aren’t Alright - Is technology ruining America’s youth? It’s certainly ruining its older generations.
The New Republic
“Adults love to obsess about how the perils of modernity are ruining the younger generations. (They can’t help themselves. It’s how they keep their minds off all the gray hair, crows feet, and erectile dysfunction that stalk the land of the middle aged.) Nowadays, a favorite fixation is whether youth can be taught to responsibly navigate our wired world. Can immature minds grasp the privacy issues that become more complicated with each new networking tool? How can we make teens understand the foolishness of putting drunken, naked spring break pics on Facebook for the entire world (and future potential employers) to ogle? Is social networking creating a generation of scorching narcissists? Will sexting turn our youth into a pack of mindless, drooling sociopaths? I’m sorry, but from where I sit, it ain’t the young’uns having notable trouble setting barriers and using technology with any level of discretion, reserve, or common sense.”
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-adults-arent-alright?utm_source=TNR+Master&utm_campaign=4e60994005-TNR_Daily_021610&utm_medium=email
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man - It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
Esquire
“Roger Ebert can’t remember the last thing he ate. He can't remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn't happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory — it wasn't as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz's ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.”http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310-2#ixzz0foIOlSP3
Note: Rogers blog can be accessed at: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/
European theaters threaten to not screen 'Alice in Wonderland' - They oppose Disney's plans to bump up the DVD release of the film, fearing that a shorter window between theatrical and home release will hurt profits.
Los Angeles Times
“Walt Disney Pictures' decision to accelerate the release of its upcoming 3-D film "Alice in Wonderland" on DVD has sparked a revolt among movie theater owners in Europe. Major chains in the U.K. and the Netherlands have threatened to boycott the movie when it hits theaters March 5, a move that could cut into box-office revenue. The film adaptation based on classic characters of Lewis Carroll has become the latest battleground between studios and exhibitors over how soon movies should be released on DVD after they've opened in theaters.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-alice17-2010feb17,0,4027691.story
Ringside at the Web Fight
Vanity Fair
“I am told so many things about what is going to happen in the Internet business—happen imminently, happen in a way to transform human behavior and aspirations, happen in a way to disrupt the powers that be, or to restore the powers that used to be—that I should be in a position, if I could just focus my attention, to get rich, finally. Everybody I know who follows the next big thing believes that this year—emerging from recession, with the death of so many aspects of conventional media—will be a year of, in Internet-speak, radical inflection, precipitating a wave of acquisitions and I.P.O.’s and a river of new investment. If you can only focus on what so many geniuses are saying, you can win big. But deciphering the chatter is no small talent, because the technology business is at least as much talk as it is science.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/03/wolff-201003
Even Before Filming, Kennedy Series Stirs Anger
New York Times
“A new mini-series about John F. Kennedy’s presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage has been shot. It does, however, have prominent critics who want it brought to a halt.The critics, including Theodore C. Sorensen, a former Kennedy adviser, say they have read the scripts for the project and that those contain errors of fact and emphasis. But like a similar controversy over a 2003 television film about Ronald Reagan, the dispute over the embryonic Kennedy series seems to say as much about the enduring place of the Kennedys as a battleground in the culture wars as it does about history itself.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/arts/television/17kennedy.html?ref=arts
Survey: Paying for online content a tough sell
San Francisco Chronicle
“With big media companies grappling with ways to increase online revenues, a new survey released Tuesday showed 85 percent of Internet users believed that online content that is currently free should remain free. Yet the extensive survey by the Nielsen Co. research firm found online consumers may be more willing to pay for certain categories, such as movies, games, TV shows and music, and less likely to pay for news, blogs and user-created videos.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/16/BU591C2C99.DTL#ixzz0foFP7OWo
Former ‘American Idol’ Contestants Join ‘Hair’
New York Times
“Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo, who both developed fan followings as contestants on the television show “American Idol,” will play the characters Berger and Sheila in the new cast for Broadway musical revival of “Hair,” the show’s producers announced on Tuesday.”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/former-american-idol-contestants-join-hair/
Performing Arts
Dance
What real dancers think of figure skating - Insiders reveal what they love and loathe about their balletic cousins on ice
Salon
“Figure skating and dance both deal with movement, balance and poise. They both demand balletic precision and seamless choreography, limb articulation and gazelle-like leaps. But where ice skating focuses on athleticism, dance concentrates on artistry, and all the whiz-bang double axels, bedazzled unitards and cheesy music can make skating seem something like ballet’s embarrassing cousin. We wondered: What do real dancers -- the ones who perform on land, without blades strapped to their feet -- think about figure skating? Salon tracked down a few to get their opinion.’
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/02/16/dancers_on_figure_skating/index.html
Other
From Catwalk to Closet, Faster Article Video Comments more in Fashion »Email Print Wall Street Journal
“This just might be the boldest fashion statement at the shows so far—letting shoppers actually buy the clothes. Some designers are chipping away at one of the industry's most elite and stubborn schedules: the six-month lag it takes for runway looks to appear in stores, if they appear at all. Driving the change, they say, is a desire to stay a step ahead of knock-offs and to win over consumers after high-end clothing sales were battered by the economy. The Web is also helping, making it possible for some designers to circumvent traditional retailers and reach their customers directly.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069203016176856.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_6
Reality Shows
Wall Street Journal
“Outrageous designs, from linebacker shoulders to mile-high boots—have long been the hallmarks of high-end fashion shows. But featured on runways this week is something new: plenty of wearable clothes, albeit with a designer flair.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069521335894204.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_LeadStoryNA
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Visual Arts/Museums
Museum to feature Tuskegee Airmen
Beloit Daily News
Opens February 17
ALTON, Ill. (AP) — “A new Black History exhibit about one of the most heroic units of World War II opens Wednesday at the Alton Museum of History and Art Inc. Altonian Lula Simms married two members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of African-American military aviators. Simms, now in her 80s, loaned the Alton Museum of History and Art several pieces for the exhibit. Simms married Beryl Wyatt, a pilot who became a second lieutenant in the 332nd Fighter Wing. Wyatt was killed on April 19, 1944, when his P-39 Airacobra crashed in Italy; he received the Purple Heart medal. After Wyatt’s death, Simms married another former member of the Tuskegee Airmen, also now deceased. Also, some retired Tuskegee Airmen lived in Jerseyville, as researched by Altonian Thomas E. Raglin, said the museum’s president emeritus, Charlene Gill.’
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/02/16/news/illinois_news/ill1601.txt <blocked::http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/02/16/news/illinois_news/ill1601.txt>
New art gallery creates an enchanted world
Daily Cardinal
Through March 14
“There is a point in everyone’s childhood when we are certain our toys come to life when our backs are turned. If we could have just abstained from that one blink or opened the toy box a moment faster, we would have caught a glimpse of a concealed, enchanted world in which our typically inanimate playthings have sprung to life. Watching the lifelike movement and charisma of the automata kinetic sculptures, now on display in the Mayer Gallery of the Chazen Museum of Art, may very well be the closest one could ever come to witnessing such a charmed world.”
http://www.dailycardinal.com/arts/new-art-gallery-creates-an-enchanted-world-1.1161383
"pARTners" exhibit conveys love through art
Royal Purple/UW Whitewater
February 17 Opening
“Professor Denis Dale and his wife Michele have been creating and sharing their love of art for more than 35 years. Beginning today, they are being featured together for the first time in "pARTners," located in the Fiskum Art Gallery. "Since we've been partners in art, we've never been exhibited together," Denis said. Dale met Michele in college where they studied at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill., where not only their hearts grew together, but their love of art as well. They began to study sculpture and two-dimensional art. Eventually Dale developed a passion for photography and printmaking, while Michele continued to explore three-dimensional art. "Art is a way of life for us," Dale said.”
http://media.www.royalpurplenews.com/media/storage/paper1225/news/2010/02/17/Spotlight/partners.Exhibit.Conveys.Love.Through.Art-3872868.shtml
Racine Art Museum announces new curator
Racine Journal Times
March 1
RACINE - The Racine Art Museum (RAM) announces the appointment of Lena Vigna as its new curator of exhibitions. She will begin her position at RAM March 1. Vigna served as the curator of exhibitions and department head at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan from 2001 to 2008. Vigna has her BFA and MA degrees in art history. She worked at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art prior to moving to Wisconsin in 2001. Vigna moved to the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio in 2008.
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_b1863a88-1b59-11df-8391-001cc4c03286.html
Arts and Creativity in Education
Band before the book concert
Superior Telegram
February 19
“Come one, come all for the first Band Before the Book 5-11 p.m. Feb. 19, the Northland College Nordic Club is sponsoring the Band Before the Book concert and brat dinner. Music provided by Moosebeard and the Breadless Bandits and the Three Blind Pigs. Come join the fun on Lake Superior just north of Hotel Chequamegon!”
http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/40212/
Artaria presents Schumann’s piano quintet at Viterbo
La Crosse Tribune
February 20
“The Artaria String Quartet will join with La Crosse pianist Mary Ellen Haupert for Robert Schumann’s piano quintet in the third concert of Viterbo University’s 2009-10 chamber music series. The St. Paul-based quartet, former Tanglewood ensemble residents and winner of the McKnight Fellowship for performing musicians, also will perform quartets by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. The four-concert subscription season is dedicated to Schumann and his contemporaries to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.”
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/entertainment/article_0a249796-182d-11df-96c5-001cc4c002e0.html
Community Arts
Entries still being accepted for city photo contest
Sawyer County Record
March 5 Deadline
“Residents of Hayward are reminded that entries are still being accepted for the photo contest being held by the City of Hayward as part of its Comprehensive Planning process. Photos that best capture the beauty and essence of the city are being requested. Three photos that the planning commission and Planning and Development Committee feel best represent the city will win Hayward Area Chamber of Commerce Gift Certificates. Certificate prizes are $100 for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for third. Photos can be submitted online at www.sehinc.com/online/hayward. The deadline is March 5.”
http://www.haywardwi.com/articles/2010/02/17/news/doc4b7c1e5522e15705158123.txt
CALL FOR DIRECTORS
StageQ
April 1
StageQ is looking for directors for QUEER SHORTS 5, our fifth annual shorts playfest, running June 11 – 19, 2010 at the Bartell Theater in Madison. Are you Queer identified or an ally? Do you love theater? And…Are you an experienced director who wants to participate in a fun, queer community celebration? Or...Have you dreamed of directing but been afraid to dive in the deep end with a full length production? Or...Have you dreamed of directing, but just couldn't get that first foot in the door? HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! Get your feet wet! Get your foot in the door! Gain valuable knowledge and experience and celebrate queer community!
If interested, please contact us via e mail by April 1 with your info. stageq@stageq.com
Folk Arts/Folklife
Red Stick Ramblers to Bring Cajun Spice to Wisconsin Union Theater
World Music Central
February 26
“Red Stick Ramblers will perform at Music Hall on Friday, February 26 at 8 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. The Red Stick Ramblers mix Western-style tunes with spicy Cajun and Creole sounds. To keep things interesting, they add in some Gypsy ballads, speed things up with flamenco tangos, and mix in some honky-tonk blues.”
http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/Red_Stick_Ramblers_wisconsin_2010
Performing Arts
Dance
Kanopy Dance Company
The Isthmus
February 19-21
“Planet Dance” is the culmination of Kanopy’s 4-year project of working with: Kalaanjali Dance Company; Sadira & Riad Middle Eastern Dance; Tania Tandias Flamenco & Spanish Dance; and Wadoma Dance. For the sheer love of dance, expect to embrace its different forms in their pure state, as well as to experience dances that share and blend different styles. Highlighting the concert will be a premier, choreographed by Kanopy Dance Company (KDC) Principal, Juan Carlos Diaz Velez. His work reveals the complexity of Flamenco footwork and contemporary dance, rich in contrast and flavor, set to Mexican traditional songs of a Spanish style.”
http://www.thedailypage.com/theguide/details.php?event=226162
Music
Local band wants you to rock the vote
La Crosse Tribune
Through March 8
“You can help a local metal band win a contest by simply going online and voting. Orwell, which is based in La Crosse, is one of 20 metal bands competing to win recording time with MACHINE, a producer from New Jersey who has worked with bands including Lamb of God, Fall Out Boy and Suicide Silence. Tim Bradley, who plays rhythm guitar in Orwell, calls it their “battle to get to the top of the food chain.”
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/entertainment/article_602896ee-182b-11df-b17f-001cc4c002e0.html
Doug Moe: Tribute concerts promise to really swing
Wisconsin State Journal
February 20 - 21
“Joel Kaye had been in Madison prior to this week. He’s just not sure exactly when. You know how it is when you’re on the road making music. You don’t know cities. You know buses and clubs. “I know I was here with the Kenton band in the ’60s,” Kaye was saying Tuesday. He was sitting at a back table in the Mineral Point Road Panera Bread.”
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_806e8a73-6429-578a-b711-3087efc2545d.html
Theater
‘Sappho in Love’ not quite godly, but will keep audiences laughing
Bartell Theatre’s latest play deals with lesbian relationships, romance
Badger Herald
Through February 27
“Ever feel like your love life is cursed? Like some omniscient being is screwing with you just for laughs? “Sappho in Love,” written by Carolyn Gage (“Ugly Ducklings,” “Second Coming of Joan of Arc”) and directed by Katy Conley, is a comedy that takes place during a time when human fate was completely in the hands of trickster gods and goddesses, and love lives could be in shambles with the wink of Athena’s eye.”
http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2010/02/16/sappho_in_love_not_q.php
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