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Wisconsin Arts Board!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Welcome to 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.​​

Arts Board Event Calendar








WAB Celebrates 50th!

Investing in your community's imagination for 50 years!

WAB's 50th Anniversary Mark, created by Paul Meinke 


Grant Impact Reports

One page reports visualizing the impact of Wisconsin Arts Board Grants in each Senate and Assembly District, as well as statewide. ​



Grant Programs

Descriptions of all Wisconsin Arts Board grant programs.​



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The Arts Board did a lot in April! We celebrated Jazz Month, Poetry Month, and Hmong Heritage Month, held meetings and attended conferences with our friends and partners, held our FY26 Creative Communities - Arts Education Grant Review Panel, and more!
What's Afoot Backstage - April 2025
  
Along with Governor Evers, we want to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW), and highlight our relationship with the Department of Tourism.
National Travel and Tourism Week 2025
  
Arts education empowers children to grow their creativity, and grow into not just educated adults, but adults with tools and understanding necessary to leverage the information they’ve learned...
Arts, Education, Youth Development
  
Our friends at NASAA have prepared 3 informational one-pagers highlighting the impact of NEA and Wisconsin Arts Board grants. Check them out...
NEA and Arts Board Grants Impact
  
​Taken from the third edition of Creative Copy, a service of the Wisconsin Arts Board, we delve into film in Wisconsin.
Fantastic Film
  
We are celebrating Jazz Month and Poetry Month by pairing a poem with a jazz song, both being either produced in/about Wisconsin or by a Wisconsinite.

Read and listen to our last week's features...
Week Five of Jazz and Poetry Month 2025
  
​This April, we worked with artists and arts organizations across Wisconsin to gather a stellar collection of poems, in celebration of Poetry Month 2025.
Poetry Anthology - Celebrating Poetry Month 2025
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