As a part of the Vital Skills exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery, exhibitions manager Jody Clowes convenes a conversation about the importance and relevance of preserving traditional skills and the best means for passing them on. How are these skills being taught in Wisconsin now, and what other avenues might be explored? Are there important skills that are not being preserved? What allies might we find in other arenas, from environmental and cultural groups to urban planners, energy experts, and the business community? With Greg David, farmer, D.I.Y. energy-systems builder, and co-founder of Sustain Jefferson; Jim Lorman, director of Edgewood College’s Sustainability Leadership Program; Ruth Olson, folklorist, UW-Madison Center for Upper Midwestern Cultures; Anne Pryor, director of the Wisconsin Arts Board’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program; and Robert Schulz, blacksmith and founder of Driftless Folk School, Viroqua. Moderated by Vital Skills curator Jody Clowes. Presented in partnership with Sustain Dane and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Upper Midwestern Cultures. Recorded on Sunday, April 14, at the Wisconsin Studio in Overture Center for the Arts, Madison. Video provided courtesy of Wisconsin Public Television.