Creative Responses from Wisconsin's Creative Sector

Dance: 

- Kanopy Dance creates new video for supporters.

Literature:

- From the Little Writing Room over the Garage, Author Michael Perry reads daily.

- WI Poet Laureate Alumnus, Max Garland, shares a poem.

Multi-discipline:

- Door Community Auditorium created a Spring Training program - an online series of virtual and live-streamed programs and prompts shared by the DCA and Door County Friends!

- The Oshkosh Grand Opera House “At Home" posts some great arts content
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2910881048978010/

- Lynden Sculpture Garden launches site with Virtual Tours/Education Materials

Multi-media:

- Janesville Performing Arts Center's “Home movie" submission request for a “AT HOME- FILM FESTIVAL". Encouraging submissions from all areas of the state. https://www.facebook.com/events/222167842486917/

Music:

- Peninsula Music Festival launches 'PlayON' Fund to assist festival musicians through COVID-19 financial crisis.

- The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra welcomes you to join their #coucherto social media series by uploading home musical performances using the #coucherto hashtag and tagging WCO.

- Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society shares its Tiny Desk Concerts every Tuesday and Thursday at noon.

- Milwaukee Symphony invites us to stream an audio recording, recorded live in an empty Uihlein Hall on 3/14. As President & Executive Director Mark Niehaus and Music Director Ken-David Masur remarked, music is a balm we can turn to in times of uncertainty, and we hope it brings you comfort and relief.

Storytelling:

- Ex Fabula has moved all May programming online, including upcoming Virtual StoryCircles and StorySlams.

Theater:

- Milwaukee Repertory Theater - Our Home to Your Home; Playwright Essays; What the Tea; Free Art Kits; etc.

- WI Alliance of Community Theaters

- Northern Sky Theatre's "Promise Pass" is good forever, like a “Flexible-Forever-Stamp!” Promise Passes can be used for a show at the outdoor Park Amphitheater or in the indoor Gould Theater. Promise Passes also retain either venue’s highest ticket-type value, even if our ticket prices increase in the future.

Visual Arts and Crafts:

- The Racine Art Museum has created an online scavenger hunt, and other ways for people to enjoy, explore, and engage with art from home.

- The Virtual Haggerty Museum of Art

- Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber's “Quarantine Quilt Project"

- Peninsula School of Art offers several new virtual initiatives, including posting family and kid-friendly art projects on Fridays via social media (for local families, free "art-kits" will be available for pick-up at the PenArt entrance beginning at 10am on Fridays), launching weekly "Creative Challenge" prompts via social media, sharing virtual gallery tours, demonstrations, and videos for art appreciators (or e-learners) on Tuesdays, and devoting Mondays to beginners and those curious about getting started in art-making, focusing on demystifying basic art terms, tools and principles.

- The Trout Museum of Art launches "Made to Order," a match-making program for art buyers and artists.

- Artists Helen Klebesadel and Mary Kay Neumann launched a virtual collaborative art exhibition as a part of their ongoing “The Flowers are Burning: An Art and Climate Justice Project.” Klebesadel also created the ‘Cabin Fever Creative Community’ group on Facebook, a space for members to share resources, how-tos, creative responses and community.

Bonus: Fun Resources from Elsewhere

- The Kennedy Center LUNCH DOODLES: Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE.