by Jason Smith | Dec 9, 2014 | Magazine Article
Harvest Park of downtown Reedsburg is the new home of Ruminant (The Grand Masticator), a John Deere 6600 harvesting combine clad in 34 agriculturally themed backlit stained glass panels. An endearingly outsized mash-up of stained glass, agricultural symbolism, and...
by Jane Elder | Dec 2, 2014 | Magazine Article
Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite authors, Terry Tempest Williams. In preparation for our conversation, I read her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008). The...
by Jason Smith | Nov 15, 2013 | Magazine Article
“Now … I should note that the point of the arts is obviously not to create economic impact or jobs; the point is to help us communicate in new ways about what it is like to be human, the good, the painful, the ugly, and the sublime. But isn’t it great to know...
by Sara Raab | Oct 9, 2012 | Videos
In this Academy Evening talk, panelists Donna Neuwirth and Jay Salinas of the Wormfarm Institute in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, and Mitch Menchaca of Americans for the Arts in Washington, DC, share perspectives on how to build community—especially in smaller, rural...
