by Beth Zinsli | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
When my friend Fanny Lau told me about it, I was intrigued by the simplicity of the concept. “It’s just like a vegetable CSA, but with art,” she said. We were discussing the prospect of a new program in the Fox Cities based on the familiar CSA (community supported...
by Helen Klebesadel | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
In terms of American Democracy, the arts are for everyone. They are not reserved for the wealthy, or for the well-endowed museum, the gallery, or the ever-subsidized regional professional theater. As America emerges into a different understanding of her strength, it...
by Maryo Gard Ewell, Helen Klebesadel | Sep 24, 2015 | Videos
Explore the history and future of rural arts in Wisconsin with two of its greatest leaders. Maryo Gard Ewell, arts administrator and daughter of arts advocate Robert E. Gard, will tell the story of how the Wisconsin Idea fostered the development of Wisconsin’s rural...
by Lorrie Moore, David McLimans | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
I first met David McLimans the summer of 2001, on a blind date at the Greenbush Bar six weeks after my divorce was finished—done and dusted, as the Irish say—and six weeks before 9/11. I had been told, somewhat misleadingly, that David was a commercial illustrator....
by Jody Clowes | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
You can draw a lake or paint the ocean, film a rainstorm or a blizzard, sculpt the contours of a river’s path. But how can you express the essence of water? It’s slippery. Definitions of water mostly describe what it isn’t: colorless, odorless, tasteless, transparent....
