Wyoming Music Educators Association seeks executive director and newsletter editor

From the Wyoming Music Educators Association: 

The Wyoming Music Educators Association (WMEA) seeks an Executive Director, term to begin July 1, 2012. The Executive Director functions as an independent contractor and the position pays a stipend of $6,000.00 annually. For more information and detailed job description contact WMEA President Kate McKeage at mckeage@uwyo.edu

WMEA Windsong Editor

The Wyoming Music Educators Association (WMEA) seeks an Editor of the publication Windsong. The Editor produces three issues per school year and may serve as an appointed member of the WMEA Board. This position pays a stipend of $1,000.00 annually. For more information, please contact:

Dan Holroyd

WMEA President Elect

holrodydd@lararmie1.org

The Wyoming Music Educators Association (WMEA) is the professional association for music teachers in the State of Wyoming. WMEA is a non-profit association affiliated with NAfME: the National Association for Music Education. The mission of the WMEA is to further the advancement of music education in Wyoming through public and private instruction, and encourage lifelong appreciation and involvement in music. For more information visit: http://www.wyomea.org/

Fall WAC newsletter in mail

The latest issue of the Wyoming Arts Council newsletter is at the post office and should be in your mailboxes in the next couple of days. Read about Daniel Pink coming to Cheyenne, the Equality State BookFest that Mike has been blogging about for at least the last month, the new statue at the State Fairgrounds in Douglas, as well as Bruce Richardson's lively recap of the Michael Kaiser visit in Cheyenne. There are write-ups about Wyoming Writers, Inc., Julianne Couch's article on Wyoming writer's groups, Gretel Ehrlich's writing retreat, our featured Wyoming artists -- Tom Rea, Pravina Gondalia, and Wendy de la Harpe -- remembering Eva McAdams, Dutch Hop, Poetry Out Loud, Christmas Tree project and a list of awarded grants. If you'd like to look at it online go to http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/pdf/WAC_newsletter_fall_2010.pdf

Festival date correction

The Rocky Mountain Regional Fiddle Championship & Festival is listed in the WAC's Spring 2010 Artscapes newsletter as taking place on August 13-15, but those dates are incorrect. The correct dates are August 20-22, 2010. FMI go to http://www.casperwyofiddleclub.com/ or email Ann Robison at agrobinson@bresnan.net.

WAC's spring 2010 newsletter

The WAC's spring issue of Artscapes is about to be printed and mailed, but if you'd like a preview, go to http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/pdf/WAC_newsletter_spring_2010.pdf, where you can read about the mural project in Laramie, the 2010 visual arts fellowship winners, Michael Kaiser, president of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, upcoming visit to Casper in July, The Art of the Hunt's project, "Fishing Traditions," three terrific Wyoming artists, The Governors Capitol Art Exhibition, a short list of Wyoming festivals and events, the 2010 Poetry Out Loud winner and runner-up, and WAC news.

Call for proposals: Wyoming Writers, Inc.

Four new Wyoming Writers, Inc., board members were elected at last week's 36th annual conference in Cody. They are Cindy Bower, Casper; Carol Deering, Riverton; Carol Eckhardt, Chugwater; and John D. Nesbitt, Torrington.

One of the new board's immediate tasks is to find people to do various tasks, such as bookkeeping, webmastering, and newsletter editing. WWInc is seeking proposals in which respondents indicate the tasks they could do for WWInc and what you’d like in return.

For more information, including detailed descriptions of these tasks, please contact board past president Joe Megeath at jmegeath@q.com. Proposals and supporting resumes are due by June 30. Winning proposals will be announced by July 31.

For more about WWInc, Wyoming's statewide writers' group, go to www.wyowriters.org

Winter 2010 Artscapes newsletter at the printer

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The newsletter will be in the mail by end of January, but thought I'd give a preview here, and the PDF version can be seen on our homepage at http://www.wyomingartscouncil.org/. This issue features the 2009 Governor's Arts Awards recipients, as well as the Blanchan/Doubleday winners and runners'-up, the Folk Arts Mentorships awardees, and lots of other WAC news.

Other posts have talked about the GAA recipients, but they are saddlemaker Don Butler of Sheridan, Mayor Duane Evenson of Gillette, Naoma J. Tate of Cody, Louise Wesswick of Rock Springs, and Wyoming Educator of Secondary Theatre (WEST).

WAC's fall issue of newsletter now out

Fall issue of the newsletter should have arrived in your mailbox this week. You can also read it online at http://www.wyomingartscouncil.org/.

This issue features:

Front page--A recap of Arts Summit 2009 audience favorite Kelly Barsdate's presentation. Kelly works for NASAA, the National Assembly of State Arts Agency. There's also a terrific photo of Leah Hardy's artwork, a WAC Visual Arts Fellowship 2009 winner.

Our director Rita Basom talks about surveys and the inconvenience for the answerer, but the necessity for the asker, of filling them out. WAC board member Susan Stubson, a concert pianist from Casper, laments Natrona County's plans to take instrumental music out of grade schools.

Page 5 features the visual arts fellowship winners and a piece of art work from each.

Our Wyoming Artist Spotlights feature Sundance poet Patricia Frolander, cowboy poet and performer Cora Wood, and visual artist Georgia Rowswell.

Since it's cowboy poetry season, we listed several well-known cowboy poets in the footer and also featured eighty-nine year old cowboy poet Georgie Sicking.

Andrea Graham is the new Folklife Specialist at UW, and will be working with our folk arts specialist Annie Hatch on projects throughout the state. We also introduced you to our new cultural resources intern Ji Eun Kim, from South Korea, also a talented visual artist.

If you'd like to receive a paper copy of the newsletter, just call Linda at 307-777-6393 or email me through the blog address with your mailing address and I'll get one to you.