Wisconsin Arts Board 2007 Town Meetings Site
Press Release
Town Meeting PowerPoint
Presentation
2007 Town Meeting Schedule
Town Meeting Agenda
Draft Materials for Town
Meeting Review
Frequently Asked Questions
Presenters
Public Value
New Economy Funding Initiative
Other Materials of Interest
Press Release
The Wisconsin Arts Board embarks on its annual series of town meetings,
November 5-30, 2007.
This year’s agenda will cover the imminent changes to the Arts Board’s
grants programs, a discussion of the “public value” of the arts, and a
report on news and trends from around the state.
Community hosts of the 2007 town meetings include: Wausau (ArtsBlock and the Community Foundation
of North Central Wisconsin), Madison (MAdison Arts Commission and the Dane
County Cultural Affairs Commission), Milwaukee (Milwaukee Arts Board),
Sturgeon Bay (Peninsula Arts Association), Appleton (Appleton Art Center,
Community Foundation of the Fox Valley Region), Eau Claire (Eau Claire
Regional Arts Council and the Chippewa Valley Convention and Visitors
Bureau), Spooner (Northwest Heritage Passage), and Mineral Point (Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts).
For more information on the town meeting schedule and the meeting agenda,
please contact Karen Goeschko, Assistant Director for Programs and Services
at the Wisconsin Arts Board, at 608-267-2026 or
karen.goeschko@wisconsin.gov
2007 Town Meeting Schedule
In addition to the following locations, a statewide town meeting will be held via
conference call on November 30 at 3pm for those who cannot participate
in the meeting that occurs in their own region of the state (see below for more details).
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 – Wausau
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Brown Bag Lunch)
Performing Arts Foundation/ ArtsBlock, 401 N. 4th Street, Wausau, WI
Local contact information: Kathy or Beth in the ArtsBlock ticket office,
715-842-0988 or
joconnell@grandtheater.org
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – Madison
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
State Capitol Building,
Madison, WI
Local contact information: Karin Wolf, 608-261-9134 or
KWolf@cityofmadison.com
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 – Milwaukee
9:00 AM - Noon
Milwaukee City Hall, 200 E. Wells Street, Room 301-A, Milwaukee, WI
Local contact information: Lynn Lucius, 414-961-0113 or
llucius@wi.rr.com
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – Sturgeon Bay
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Brown Bag Lunch)
Sturgeon Bay Public Library,
107 S. 4th Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, WI
Local contact information: Jodi Brey, 920-854-1833 or
paa@itol.com
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – Appleton
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Appleton Art Center, 111 W College Avenue, Appleton, WI
Local contact information: Tim Riley, 920-733-4089 or
timriley@appletonartcenter.org
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – Eau Claire
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM (Brown Bag Lunch)
Eau Claire Regional Arts Council, 316 Eau Claire Street, Eau Claire, WI
Local contact information: Meredith Pirazzini, 715-832-2787 or
info@eauclairearts.com
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – Spooner
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Brown Bag Dinner)
Northwest Heritage Passage
Spooner Agricultural Research Station, W6646 Hwy 70, Spooner, WI
Local contact information: JoAnn Martin, 715-635-4548 or
joann@blackirisframing.com
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – Mineral Point
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Brown Bag Dinner)
Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
18 Shakerag Street, Mineral Point, WI
Local contact information: Shake Rag Alley, 608-987-3292 or
shakeragalley@verizon.net
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – Your Home Town
The Arts Board's “Virtual” Town Meeting
via facilitated telephone
conference call
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Link to Register
Contact information: Karen Goeschko, 608-267-2026 or
karen.goeschko@arts.state.wi.us
Town Meeting Agenda
- Introductions
- Local hosts give brief overview of their programs
- Wisconsin Arts Board staff presentation on the context for the
grants program changes, and the
proposed changes
themselves
- Questions and Answers and Input specifically related to the draft
guidelines/narrative questions of the Creation and Presentation grant
program, and generally related to the project grants program
- Discussion of the “public value” of the work that arts organizations
do
- Brief overview of the Arts and Economic Prosperity local and state
economic impact studies
- Brief overview of the New Economy Funding Initiative of the Arts
Board
- Arts Board staff reports out on current statewide trends and news of
note
- General Questions and Answers
Draft
Materials for Town Meeting Review
Below are DRAFT versions of the Creation and Presentation Grant program
guidelines, criteria and narrative questions for people to review before the
town meetings. Please note that new material is highlighted in blue text
within each document.
The Arts Board will gladly accept your thoughts and suggestions related
to the following up until the end of the day on November 30th, at which
point we must finalize the program for board approval at the Arts Board’s
December 7th board meeting.
If you plan to apply for a Creation and Presentation grant, you may send
your IRS Form 990s to the Wisconsin Arts Board at any time between now and
the February 15, 2008 deadline.
PRESENTERS
Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton (Schedule
Permitting)
Chairperson, Wisconsin Arts Board
c/o Office of the Lieutenant Governor
19 East, State Capitol
P.O. Box 2043
Madison, WI 53702
T (608) 266-3516
F (608) 267-3571
E
ltgov@wisconsin.gov
W
http://www.ltgov.wisconsin.gov/
Link to biography:
http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/section.asp?linkid=1065&locid=126
George Tzougros, Executive Director
Wisconsin Arts Board
First Floor
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison, WI 53702
T (608) 266-0190
F (608) 267-0380
E
george.tzougros@wisconsin.gov
W
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov
Bio: George Tzougros is the Executive Director of the
Wisconsin Arts Board, the state agency which nurtures creativity, cultivates
expression, promotes the arts, supports the arts in education, stimulates
community and economic development and serves as a resource for people of every
culture and heritage. Mr. Tzougros works with the arts community, Wisconsin
Arts Board members and staff, the Governor, Lt. Governor, and state legislature
to create funding programs and services to meet the needs of the citizens of
Wisconsin. Mr. Tzougros is a member of the Governor’s Council on Tourism and
the Cultural Coalition of Wisconsin. He is the President of Wisconsin/Chiba
Incorporated and Film Wisconsin, an advisory board member of the Wisconsin
Foundation for the Arts, and a board member of the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin
Idea Foundation and Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education.
Karen Goeschko, Assistant Director for Programs and
Services
Wisconsin Arts Board
First Floor
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison, WI 53702
T (608) 266-0190
F (608) 267-0380
E
karen.goeschko@wisconsin.gov
W
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov
Bio: Karen Goeschko is the
Assistant Director for Programs and Services at the Wisconsin Arts Board.
In this capacity, she works with arts groups and artists throughout Wisconsin
in the areas of community assessment and development, arts programming, and
organizational development. Internal to the Arts Board, Ms. Goeschko
coordinates the Board's grants programs and technical assistance as well as its
long-range planning process, which continues to provide new ways for citizens
to provide input to the Board. Ms. Goeschko works closely with Arts Wisconsin
and the Wisconsin Presenters Network. She is a leader among her peers
nationally, having chaired the Community Development Coordinators Peer Group of
Americans for the Arts.
PUBLIC VALUE
Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies
Authors: Mark H. Moore; Gaylen Williams Moore
Wallace Foundation and Americans for the Arts
At a time when public support of the arts faces a range of
challenges, state arts agencies could use a framework to help them better serve
the arts community and engage more people in the arts -- thereby elevating
these agencies’ public value. This report by Mark Moore, a leading authority
from Harvard on public management, offers state arts agency managers practical
guidance on: measuring and communicating their agencies’ public value;
cultivating support from policymakers, the arts community and the public; and
determining what goals are realistically within their reach.
Here is information on Moore’s original book:
Moore, Mark
Harrison. Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government.
Boston, Harvard University Press, 1995.
NEW ECONOMY FUNDING INITIATIVE
Support documents:
(1) Council on
Competitiveness.
Measuring Regional Innovation: A Guidebook for Conducting
Regional Innovation Assessments
. Prepared for the U.S. Department of
Commerce Economic Development Administration. Council on Competitiveness, 2005,
p. 7.
(2) Pp. 5 and 41, Florida,
Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; and Stolarick, Keven. “Inside the Black Box of
Regional Development: Human Capital, the Creative Class and Tolerance.”
April 2007.
(3) Kures, Matt. Map:
Creative Class Occupational Index: A Comparison of Census Block Group
Occupational Percentages to the National Average
. Center for Community
Economic Development, University of Wisconsin Extension, 2004.
OTHER MATERIALS OF INTEREST
Arts and Economic Prosperity 3 – National Study
Americans for the Arts
Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and
Culture Organizations and Their Audiences documents the key role played by the
nonprofit arts and culture industry in strengthening our nation’s economy. This
study demonstrates that the nonprofit arts and culture industry is an economic
driver in communities—a growth industry that supports jobs, generates
government revenue, and is the cornerstone of tourism.
Arts and Economic Prosperity 3 – State of Wisconsin Study
Wisconsin Arts Board and Americans for the Arts
The Arts Board – as part of its legislative mandate to
research the arts industry – commissioned a study of the economic impact of our
state’s arts and cultural organizations and their audiences. ind the results
here.
Art. Ask for More.
Americans for the Arts
The arts are much more than just fun “extraö activities
for kids. Participation in the arts opens up children's worlds and minds and
offers them the skills they need for a bright future. And chances are that your
kids are not getting enough art—in or out of school. Lots of great materials
here! Find out the 10 Simple Ways you can start today to get more art in your
child's life.
Arts Education Advocacy Tips
Wisconsin Arts Board
The Wisconsin Arts Board receives many requests each year
for information and resources that arts education advocates can use to make
their case to school superintendents, school boards, and other education
decision-makers. The following is the Arts Board’s response to one such
request. Please feel free to use this information to help craft your own strong
case for arts education in the schools of your community.
Arts Wisconsin
Arts Wisconsin
Arts Wisconsin, our state’s premiere, non profit arts
advocacy and service organization. “We advocate for the arts in Wisconsin so
that everyone in Wisconsin can experience the arts.” The Arts Board’s closest
partner in community development through the arts.
Creative Economy Bibliography
Wisconsin Arts Board
Creative Industries
Americans for the Arts
Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts
reports offer a new, research-based approach to understanding the scope and
importance of the arts to the nation's economy. While most economic impact
studies of the arts have focused on the nonprofit sector (such as our own Arts
and Economic Prosperity study), Creative Industries is the first national study
that encompasses both the nonprofit and for-profit arts industry.
Film Wisconsin
Film Wisconsin
FILM WISCONSIN is an exciting new initiative to nurture
and sustain Wisconsin's film and media industry. Film Wisconsin advocates for
the industry in the global marketplace, provides information and resources on
the industry, and is a technical assistance organization for individuals and
organizations engaged in film, television, advertising, documentary, corporate
video and still photography production in the state.
Poetry Out Loud
Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have
partnered with Arts Agencies in each state to support the expansion of Poetry
Out Loud, which encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry
through memorization and performance. This exciting program helps students
master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their
literary heritage. To learn more about the national program, click the link
above. To find out what is happening in
Wisconsin, contact Jacki Martindale, Wisconsin Poetry Out Loud Coordinator at
elumn8@charter.net.
Portal Wisconsin
Cultural Coalition of Wisconsin
Portal Wisconsin is:
- a nonprofit Web site created by the Cultural Coalition
of Wisconsin to promote the state's culture, arts, humanities and history.
- a free way for Wisconsin cultural groups to reach new
audiences.
- a new model of cultural agencies working together to
provide a public service to the citizens of Wisconsin.
Portalwisconsin.org includes a statewide events calendar,
feature stories, news, virtual tours, streaming video and audio, a gallery of
Wisconsin artists, course listings and much more. Visitors can navigate our
content through a variety of means, including searches by keyword, subject area
and date. Content is updated almost daily.
Wisconsin Folks
Wisconsin Arts Board
Wisconsin Folks is a website for students, educators, and
the general public. On Wisconsin Folks, you can:
- meet over 70 traditional and ethnic dancers, musicians, cooks,
craftspeople, and regional specialists;
- learn details of how they make their art;
- understand how their art is connected to cultural life in Wisconsin;
- connect this information with Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and
Benchmarks;
- find out how to hire these artists for public presentations; and
- discover links with cultural arts in your own community.
The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists Workshops
Wisconsin Arts Board and Arts Wisconsin
September 2007 - May 2008
Are you looking for the skills you need to make your life
in the arts? Look no further—the Wisconsin Arts Board and Arts Wisconsin, in
partnership with Springboard for the Arts and local hosts around the state, are
pleased to present these professional development workshops for Wisconsin and
Upper Midwestern artists and creative entrepreneurs. Get educated, and get
connected, at these information-packed, user-friendly workshops!
Updated:
April 30, 2008
Fax: 608/267-0380