Crucial role of water in Wyoming is theme of UW Art Museum Symposium Nov.9-10

Anti-racist author and educator Tim Wise is keynote speaker for 16th annual UW Shepard Symposium

From a UW press release:

Tim Wise, anti-racist essayist, author and educator, is the keynote speaker Wednesday, March 28, for the University of Wyoming's 16th annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice. Wise will speak from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. "Identities: Dismantling the Boxes" is the theme of this year's Shepard Symposium, which runs March 28-31.

Wise, who is among the nation's most prominent anti-racist writers and educators, has been called "one of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson.

Wise is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed memoir, "Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White"; an essay collection, "Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama"; and his recent book, "Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority."

In 1997, former UW College of Education faculty members Omawale Akintunde and Margaret Cooney organized the first symposium, then called "The Symposium for the Eradication of Social Inequality." Since then, the symposium has evolved into a major national conference that engages participants in discussion and analyses of strategies and actions that can eliminate social inequality.

Honoring the work of the Shepard family and the memory of their son, Matthew Shepard, a UW student and social activist who was murdered in 1998, the symposium's name was changed in 2002. That spring, the Shepard Symposium received funding from an anonymous endowment given to UW to pursue social justice activities throughout the campus.

The symposium is a living reminder of the need for information and dialogue about social justice concerns in America and beyond.

"We want people to deconstruct and interrupt the ways in which proscriptive identities are forced upon members of marginalized groups by society," says Chair Angela Jaime in explaining the latest theme for the symposium. "Specifically, we hope that attendees will critically examine the ways in which society forces people to identify with certain membership groups."

Various presentations will be made during the symposium. Highlights include:

Beth Loffreda, UW Department of English associate professor, will present the plenary speech, "The Consequences of Identity," at the noon luncheon Thursday, March 29, in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. She is the author of "Losing Matt Shepard."

Bridget Kisling, a junior music therapy and psychology student at Anna Maria College (Paxton, Mass.), will use a life-size version of the 1950s Barbie doll to shed light on how the media plays a significant role in shaping a young girl's sense of body image. Her presentation is Friday, March 30, 1:45-3 p.m., in the Wyoming Union Big Horn Room.

An endnote student panel discussion, "Boxed In," will be presented Friday, March 30, at 11:30 a.m. in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. UW students will discuss complex and misunderstood identities.

The second annual Shepard Symposium Friday Night Party is from 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. at the Library Bar and Grill. All proceeds benefit the recognized student organizations that have contributed time and efforts to the Shepard Symposium. Tickets are $5 at the door or $4 in advance, and can be purchased at the symposium.

For more information about the Shepard Symposium, visit the website at http://www.shepardsymposium.org/, or contact Jaime at (307) 766-3991 or email jaimea@uwyo.edu.

Photo: Tim Wise will be the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice.

Dine on traditional foods of the Jewish culture at Casper College Humanities Festival

From Casper College:

Traditional foods of the Jewish culture will be served at the next Casper College Ethnic Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 24, in conjunction with the 26th Annual Casper College Humanities Festival February 23-25.

Dishes to be served at the dinner include three entrees: Ashkenazi beef brisket, citrus-baked fish with rhubarb, and potato pierogies with caramelized onions, which is vegetarian. The side dishes include noodle kugel, carrot and sweet potato tzimmes, matzo ball soup, and Sephardic salad with nuts and dried fruits. For dessert, mini rugalah is tentatively planned.

Advance tickets for the Traditional Jewish Dishes ethnic dinner will be sold through Friday, Feb. 18 at a cost of $8.50 each. Tickets will also be available at the door for $11 for adults, $7 for ages 6 through 12, and free for children 5 and under. Tax will be added to all ticket purchases. Because dinners often sell out, advanced ticket purchases are highly recommended.

Tickets may be purchased at the Accounting and Financial Management Office, located in the Liesinger Administration Building, Room 103; the Roberts Commons Cafeteria; and the coffee bars in the Liesinger Administration Building and the Wold Physical Science Center. Cash is accepted at all locations and credit cards are accepted at the cafeteria and coffee bars.

The final dinner in this year's series will be Hungarian with a special presentation by the Casper College forensics team on April 14.

The ethnic dinner series is sponsored by the Casper College Diversity Committee, and is presented by Sodexo Campus Dining under Justin Dreslinski with the menu composed by Chef Josh Kronberg.

Symposium for artists set for Aug. 5-6 at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper

"What’s in Your Business Toolkit?"

A Symposium on the Nuts and Bolts of Managing an Artistic Career will utilize business and creative skills to enhance your visibility as an artist. It is a business development symposium for visual artists at the Nicolaysen Art Museum on August 5-6.

Many artists wonder if it’s possible to make a living doing what they love most.

This two-day smorgasbord of information will illuminate the processes of becoming more visible and financially successful as an artist.

Tips, tricks, professional insights, as well as business skills and development will all be addressed in this symposium.

This symposium will present sessions and panelists that will explore the following subjects: Legal & Finance, Crafting a Business Plan, Marketing, Technology, Pricing & Value, and Accounting.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

9 a.m.: Introduction

10 a.m.: Accounting 101. This session on basic bookkeeping and accounting will help improve your profitability and teach how to calculate breakeven sales.

11:30 a.m.: Lunch Break

12:30 p.m.: Marketing. This session will explore business professionalism, the art of networking, customer/client cultivation, how to draft artist statements, resume packets, and letters (including proposals and cover letters), how to introduce your work professionally, avoiding market saturation and how to find the right representation or art festival for you.

2:30 p.m.: How to Craft a Business Plan. This session will go over the elements of a good business plan and utilize market research to predict sales.

5 p.m.: Evening Reception (with cash bar)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

8:30 a.m.: Technology. This session will deal with utilizing and becoming familiar with social and media networks o increase visibility, as well as step by step instructions to creating a presence online.

10:30 a.m.: Legal and Finance. In this session, the ins and outs of drafting and negotiating dealer/festival/museum contracts, and copyright agreements will be analyzed. Also, the options and steps artists should be taking for future financing opportunities will also be discussed.

Noon: Lunch Break

1 p.m.: Pricing & Value I

3 p.m.: Pricing & Value II

These sessions will expore understanding your marketplace, evaluating your work for sale, establishing price points and range—and want to go solobucking the system. Local/regional/national artists discuss how they achieved success in the art world and share personal experiences.

Cost for the Symposium (includes reception, 2 full days of panels, snacks & 2 lunches)

125 Non-members of the NIC
$100 Members of the NIC
$50 Students (with valid ID)
$75 Daily Rate (registration for one day)

Please call the museum at 307-235-5247 (and ask for Amanda Helm) to pay by credit card. Please make all checks payable to the Nicolaysen Art Museum.

Hotel Information (ask for the NIC block rate):

Days Inn- 300 East E St. (I25 and Center St.) 307- 234-1159, $69 a night + tax
Super 8 East- 269 Miracle St. 307-237-8100, $79 a night + tax

Registration will open at 8 a.m. both days.

Registration forms will also be available online at www.thenic.org.

Please call 307-235-5247 for more information and ask for Amanda Helm.

Chris Paine: "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

Filmmaker Chris Paine will speak on Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at University of Wyoming in Laramie. His presentation is part of the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice.

Chris Paine is a filmmaker and environmentalist living in Los Angeles. "Who Killed the Electric Car?" premiered at the Sundance in 2006 before its worldwide release by Sony Pictures Classics. Chris also produced "Faster" with Ewan McGregor about the world's fastest motorcycle race, and "No Maps For These Territories," a road trip with cyberpunk author, William Gibson and featuring U2 front-man, Bono.

Outside of film, Chris was an early player in California’s dotcom boom with his firm Internet Outfitters. His company Mondo-tronics, provided materials for the Mars Pathfinder mission. Paine’s activist work includes campaigns to protect forests and to curb US nuclear programs. He supports the Black Rock Arts Foundation, the Rainforest Action Network and Plug-In America. His website is available at http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

Chris's talk is entitled, "How many lightbulbs does it take to plug in the electric car?" and is about the politics, activism, zeitgeist and cold hard business reasons for return of the electric car . This presentation begins with a quick recap of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and the reasons for its rise and fall in 1990s California. It then picks up where the first documentary left off and presents the reason for the incredible turn of events for the electric car as we are chronicling in "Revenge of the Electric Car."

FMI: http://outreach.uwyo.edu/conferences/justice/

Noted author/researcher Dr. Randall Eaton to speak at outdoor education symposium

Dr. Randall Eaton, author of "From Boys to Men of Heart: Hunting as Rite of Passage," will be the keynote speaker at the Big Horn Basin Outdoor Education Symposium on Saturday, Jan. 16. He will speak at the morning session at the Days Inn in Thermopolis at 10:05 a.m. His topic will be "Finding New Pathways in the Old." At 7:05 p.m. at the Worland Community Center, he will talk about "Hunting as a Rite of Passage."

Dr. Eaton has written and edited 14 books. They include "Cheetah: Biology, Behavior and Conservation of an Endangered Species (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974), which was recognized by the American Library Association as “one of the outstanding scientific-technical books of 1974.” "The Cheetah: Fastest Race on Earth, (Dutton, 1981)" was recognized as “An outstanding science book for young readers,” by the National Science Teachers Association-Childrens Book Council Joint Committee.

Two other recent books are:
"The Orca Project: A Meeting of Nations," an anthology of story, essay and poetry, published in fall 1998.
"The Sacred Hunt: Hunting as a Sacred Path," a 1998 anthology of story, essay and poetry.

For more information of the symposium, contact Eric Decker, Worland, 307-347-3946 or eric.decker@wy.usda.gov

Call for proposals: Shepard Symposium on Social Justice at UW

The 14th Annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice is seeking proposals for its gathering on the theme of "environmental justice" on April 7-9, 2010, at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

Call for proposals: Download PDF

Submit Proposals (deadline January 13, 2010): Online Submission

Symposium registration begins January 11, 2010.

More info about Milton Conference at USD

This comes from Wyoming native and University of South Dakota English prof Lee Ann Roripaugh:

I would like to invite you to attend and/or help spread the word about our biennial John R. Milton Writers' Conference, scheduled October 29-31, 2009, at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion. This year's conference theme is "Frontier Technology/Techno-Frontiers: Technology and the American West," and there will be writers and scholars coming to the U. from all over the country to explore this theme in both creative readings and critical papers organized into two full days of panel sessions.

We also have a very exciting roster of featured authors reading at the conference, including a special keynote reading by Maxine Hong Kingston (shown in above photo by David Shankbone), as well as readings by Allison Hedge Coke, Wang Ping, Robert A. Roripaugh, Jim Reese, and Jim Coppoc. USD creative writing faculty Ed Allen, Brian Bedard, and Lee Ann Roripaugh will also give featured readings of their work as well, per Milton Conference tradition. Readings by featured authors (including the Maxine Hong Kingston keynote reading) will be free and open to the public.

Please consider joining us for this very special literary event, and please help us spread the word as well. Additional conference information, including a conference program/schedule, information on the featured authors, and a downloadable registration form, are available at the conference website at http://miltonconference.wordpress.com

Student art work exhibit in Cheyenne

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Student art work from the Wyoming High School Art Symposium, which took place this past April in Casper, will be on display in Cheyenne in the lobby of the Barrett Building and the Wyoming Arts Council Gallery through September 11, 2009.

WAC fellowship recipients feted at "Public Art & Community" symposium

The 2009 Wyoming Arts Council fellowship jurors and recipients/honorable mentions pose for a group photo following the awards ceremony April 4 during the arts symposium at the UW Conference Center in Laramie.

Pictured (left to right) are jurors Lawrence Argent, Gina Ruggeri and Greg Esser; fellowship recipients David Henderson, Worland and Florence Alfano McEwin, Green River; and honorable mention Bart Fetz, Green River. Not pictured: Fellowship recipient Leah Hardy, Laramie, and honorable mention Jill Hartley, Rock Springs.

More on 2009 visual arts fellowships

Sample of work by winners of 2009 Wyoming Arts Council visual arts fellowships (to to bottom): "Dance With Me!", oils and wax on canvas, 41.75"x56.75", Florence Alfano McEwin; Portrait of Audrey and Holden Truman ("Young Ambitions"), oil and enamel on panel, 20"x16", David Henderson; "Gift," brass, new gold, wood, mica, glass lens and bead, shisha mirror, 4.5"x8.4"x.75", Leah Hardy.

The Wyoming Arts Council announced the winners of the 2009 visual arts fellowships at the Public Art & Community Symposium April 4 at the UW Conference Center in Laramie.

Fellowship recipients are Florence Alfano McEwin, Green River; Leah Hardy, Laramie; and David Henderson of Worland. They each will receive a $3,000 award and their work will be featured in the Fellowship Biennial Exhibit this fall at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne.

Honorable mentions went to ceramicist Bart Fetz, Green River, and oil painter Jill Hartley, Rock Springs.

McEwin’s winning entry was a series entitled “The Adventures of Red Riding Hood.” Seven of the works were intaglio solar etchings with chine colle and collage. Three of the works were paintings (subtitled “Dancing Partners”) using oils and wax on canvas. McEwin is professor of art and gallery director at Western Wyoming College in Rock Springs. She received an honorable mention in the 2008 visual arts fellowship competition. She also received WAC Individual Artist Professional Development grants in 2005 and 2008. She spends her summers near Meeteetse.

Hardy makes ceramic pieces which include materials such as mica, silver leaf, wood, glass, and bells. She is an associate professor in the art department at the University of Wyoming. She received a WAC visual arts fellowship in 2001 and honorable mentions in 1998, 1999 and 2006. She currently is on a research trip to India.

Henderson submitted a series of oil and enamel paintings on panels that are part of his “American Dream” series. Henderson says he’s “inspired by the nostalgic and iconic imagery of Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post covers depicting American life. He spent last summer “painting interpretations of the American Dreams of my coworkers, friends, relatives and their children.” This was his first submission to the WAC fellowships. He grew up in Worland and received his B.F.A. in sculpture from the Maine College of Art in 2005.

Fetz grew up in Afton in the Star Valley and graduated from Western Wyoming College and received a B.F.A. in Art from UW in 1991 and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts from the University of North Texas in 1996. He’s a lecturer in ceramics and sculpture at WWC and teaches kiln-building and pottery workshops for high school and college students.

Hartley grew up in Colorado and moved to Wyoming in 1976. She uses only a painting knife to apply oil paints to her western landscapes. “Viewers tell me that they see an abstract painting when they are close to the work and a representational painting when they step back from the work,” she says. She paints in her studio at Stone Canyon Ranch south of Rock Springs.

The 2009 fellowship judges were Lawrence Argent, sculptor and painter from Denver; Gina Ruggeri, painter from Brooklyn, N.Y.; and artist and arts activist Greg Esser, Phoenix. The WAC received 53 applications for this year's fellowship competition. The judging session was held as part of the Public Art & Community Symposium co-sponsored by the WAC and the UW Art Museum.

Applications for the next round of WAC visual arts fellowships will be available in January 2010.

During April, the WAC’s Wyomingarts blog will feature samples of the work submitted by fellowship recipients and honorable mentions.

FMI: Michael Shay, individual artists' program specialist, 307-777-5234 or mshay@state.wy.us.

We get back on track with 20:20 visions

We were able to resume 20:20 presentations during lunch today with artists from Wyoming, Arizona and New York presenting their work. Broad spectrum of work represented: oil painting, oil paint on mylar, fabric art, quilting, watercolor, photography, etc. After this wraps up, we'll move on to the afternoon show culminating in the fellowship awards reception at 5 p.m. at the UW Conference Center.

Arts talking and gallery walking in the snow

Photo from Jennifer Mercer's "Window on the World" exhibit at the KEAG Gallery in Laramie

The WAC held a series of roundtables four visual artists tonight at four restaurants around Laramie. Staffers hosted discussion about WAC programs and policies while gnoshing and quaffing. Our roundtable was held at The Library Restaurant and Microbrewery across the the UW dorms on Grand Avenue. Sparking the conversations were me and my WAC colleague, Linda Coatney, along with Laramie photographers Dan Hayward and Susan Davis, Laramie portrait and landscape painter Mack Brislawn, and Gillette fiber artist Joan Sowada. Topics included visual arts fellowships, Individual Artist Professional Development (IAPD) grants, the WAC artist roster and various other topics relating to the future of the arts in the Cowboy State.

Dan Hayward showed off his poster for the Earth Day celebration set for April 22 in Laramie. It featured a photo of a bison Dan shot in Yellowstone. A landscape photographer, Dan is very concerned about the survival of animals on the planet as a whole and in our little corner of it in Wyoming. Dan is one of our WAC roster artists and you can apply for an Arts Across Wyoming grant to bring him to your community for a photography workshop, class or exhibition. Go see the roster at http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/.

Susan was one of the presenters at last night's truncated and rearranged 20:20 exhibition. (Note to all symposium-goers: 20:20 will resume at noon tomorrow at the UW Conference Center.) Water is a topic for many of Susan's photos. She then manipulates images on Photoshop and comes up with some amazing patterns. Some she has turned into Zen-like patterns for kimonos. I just love hanging around creative people.

Mack is holding a figure drawing class April 27 (or is that April 29) at Dan's studio. Mack's work features the human figure as well as the state's landscape. Up in Gillette, Joan is doing some amazing work with fiber art, mainly quilts. She says that she's finished some new work lately and is wrapping up a couple of projects that will be featured at the upcoming Gillette Arts Gala.

After dinner, Mack, Dan, Linda and I ventured out into the elements for Laramie's Friday Gallery Walk. First stop was KEAG Gallery on Grand Avenue. An intimate space that featured the photographs of Jennifer Mercer. Jennifer's work featured the the flora and fauna of the island of Madagascar and several countries on mainland Africa. She had a great shot of a road lined with baobab trees in bloom. When not leafed out, the trees seem to be up-side down, with the scraggly branches of this top-heavy tree looking like roots seeking nourishment from the air. Very cool.

Enjoyed talking to Sarah Ramsey-Walters, KEAG's proprietor. She's been open about a year. Sales have been down in 2009, but last month wasn't bad, she said. Galleries like KEAG that feature local artists are a mainstay of any community. Buying local art, food, homemade products are key to our future.

We moved on to Night Heron Books. Melodie Edwards and her husband were minding the store that features great books by local and regional authors and art by Dan and Mack -- among others. Melodie, a fine writer, said that she likes to consider the place a salon, with paintings and photos filling up all of the wall space not devoted to books. While we were there, Melodie's husband had me the sign the copy of my short story collection that had on the shelves. Writers love it when you actually have our books on the shelves. Thanks, Night Heron.

Thus ends our journey. But not the snow.

Jeff Lockwood teaches students about sculpture

Here's one of Jeff Lockwood's teaching conclusions after he challenged his students to write about the work featured in the UW Sculpture Invitational:

"Provide a challenge, a bit of structure and some open-endedness -- and then stand back."

All of us who have taught writing know this but we forget.

Jeff is a writer and an entomologist at UW.

Who owns my artistic image?

Lawrence Argent telling arts symposium audience about how he saw someone on TV wearing a "Big Blue Bear" costume handing out flyers promoting new tourism tax. Tourism Bureau didn't ask for permission to use the artists's image. Argent notified by City of Denver Public Arts Department advising him to protect his image. He had to file a "cease and desist" order to stop use of the image. Blue Bear guy is costume then shown peering into the Colorado Convention Center showed that this was a direct "borrowing" of the image. Mayor Hickenlooper also dressed as Blue Bear in tourism tax proposal commercial the day before the election.

City pulled election signs out of yards and put a disclaimer on the TV ads.

He was in class teaching one day and heard from the city attorney that the mayor was going to put an orange scarf around the neck of Blue Bear to celebrate Broncos getting into playoffs. Argent did not want his sculpture associated with a football team. "My bear will be here forever but the Broncos won't be." Mayor called and pleaded with him. Argent still said no. Mayor said he would call next week if the Broncos win.

The Broncos didn't win. So this all became a moot point.

But this effort is ongoing and takes a lot of time.

Bill Griffith, the man who draws the "Zippy the Pinhead" comic strip did a cartoon about the Big Blue Bear. Argent now owns the original cartoon.

Photographer used Big Blue Bear to promote his business. Argent had to contact lawyer to tell the photog to remove the image from the front of his brochure.

"Don't mind if you use my image for non-commercial purposes. But it's a different story when used for commercial purposes."

He has his own Blue Bear web site on which he sells T-shirts and other stuff.

"This is a continual headache."

Licensing agreements are very complicated.

"The city wants me to protect the bear image because it's a part of the city. But whenever this becomes an issue I'm forking out the money."

The Denver Metro Area Convention and Vistors Bureau asked to use the bear image. He said O.K. but he would have to be paid. But it wasn't enough. He made the deal is his naivite, he said.

"This has been a journey and a very confusing one," he said.

"So many issues now with the proliferation of images on the web."

Live-blogging from arts symposium in Laramie

Dear Artists:

Having a great time here in Laramie.

We conducted the judging for visual arts fellowships yesterday and will annouce the three recipients and two honorable mentions Saturday, April 4, at 5 p.m. at the UW Conference Center . Wyomingarts has been sworn to secrecy so can't divulge the names. But the three receipients are from Washakie, Albany and Sweetwater counties. Both honorable mentions are from Sweetwater County. We knew that The Land of the Sweetwater was becoming an arts hub, but this is impressive.

Come on out Saturday night to the fellowship reception. Entry fee is $20 but that's a bargain at twice the price. Why not just bite the arts bullet and come to the arts symposium for the day on Saturday. Fee is $75 which includes lunch and the awards reception.

Register now for arts symposium in Laramie

You still have time to register for the symposium this weekend! "Public Art and Community: Inspiration and Reflection" will be held at the new University of Wyoming Conference Center a few blocks from the Art Museum.

UW students. There is still room to attend the conference for free AND get an excused absence for Friday classes. Contact Rachel Miller, interim assistant curator, at 766-6620 or rmiller@uwyo.edu for details and information.

For teachers, PTSB credit is available. Contact Wendy Bredehoft, education curator, at 766-3496 or wbredeho@uwyo.edu for information.

General public. Contact Rachel Miller, interim assistant curator, at 766-6620 or rmiller@uwyo.edu to register.

For the symposium schedule, click here.

For the registration form, click here.

Looking for revised arts symposium schedule?

The Denver Post carried this photo today of the snow-covered Big Blue Bear ("I See What You Mean") sculpture in front of the Colorado Convention Center. The bear's sculptor, Lawrence Argent, is one of the featured speakers at the "Public Arts & Community" symposium April 2-4 at the UW Conference Center in Laramie.

The newly-revised schedule for the "Public Art & Community" symposium April 2-4 in Laramie is up on the Wyoming Arts Council web site. Times have been adjusted slightly to allow time after each presentation for some Q&A.

Questions? Call the WAC at 307-777-5234.

Artist interested in carpooling to symposium

An artist from Cheyenne has registered for the "Public Art & Community" symposium April 2-4 in Laramie. She would like to carpool with other Cheyenne artists headed to the event. If you're interested, contact Mike Shay at the WAC at 307-777-5234 or mshay@state.wy.us. I'll pass the information on to her.

WAC sponsors artists' roundtables at "Public Art & Community" symposium

The Wyoming Arts Council is holding a series of roundtable discussions at the “Public Art & Community” Symposium April 3-4 at the Hilton Garden Inn (and other local venues) in Laramie. Goal of these sessions is to share information about WAC programs and to hear from the state's individual artists. The sessions are open to anyone who registers for the symposium. Better hurry though, as we need a final count by Tuesday, March 31. Find a printable registration form at http://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseumimages/educationimages/SclprSymp-Reg-NoIndicia.pdf.


Here is the line-up of the roundtrable discussions:

Friday, April 3, 7 a.m., Coal Creek Coffee adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn
Topics: General discussion of Wyoming Arts Council programs for individual artists
Staff present: Mike Shay and Rita Basom
Type: No host
No sign-up required

Friday, April 3, noon, Hilton Garden Inn luncheon roundtable
Type: Lunch part of registration fee
Need to sign-up at registration table
Topics (and moderator):
1. Folk Arts and Visual Arts (Annie Hatch)
2. Fellowship application/guidelines and biennial exhibit AIR (Mike Shay)
3. AIR going online Arts teachers (Camellia El-Antably and Wendy Bredehoft))
4. Artist Roster (Marirose Morris)
5. Individual Artist Professional Development (IAPD) grants (Rita Basom)
6. Art in Public Buildings (APB) and Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibit (Ann Larson)
7. Individual Artists’ Survey (Randy Oestman)
8. Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) programs (Anthony Radich)

Friday, April 3, 5:30 p.m. (meet in lobby at 5:15 p.m. for transportation), dinner at Laramie restaurants
Topics: General discussions
Type: No host
Need to sign up at registration table
Locations/staff:
Anong Thai/Camellia
Jeffrey’s/Mike
Hilton Garden Inn Restaurant/Marirose
Corona Village/Rita

Saturday, April 4, 7 a.m., Coal Creek Coffee adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn
Topics: General discussion of Wyoming Arts Council programs for individual artists
Staff present: Mike and Rita Camellia
Type: No host
No sign-up required

Saturday, April 4, noon Hilton Garden Inn luncheon roundtable
Type: Lunch part of registration fee
Need to sign-up at registration table
Topics (and moderator):
1. Opportunities for visual artists other than WAC -- WESTAF, NEA, etc. (Marirose)
2. Current economy and impact on artists; stimulus bill and arts impact (Camellia)
3. Future gatherings of visual artists (Rita)
4. Connectivity, newsletter, blog and listservs (Mike)

FMI: Call the WAC at 307-777-7742.