by Mary Louise Schumacher | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
For years I had hoped to write a profile of Ruth DeYoung Kohler, the woman who guided the John Michael Kohler Arts Center to an international reputation for its care and exhibition of artists now known as “environment builders.” Kohler is one of the few arts leaders...
by Jason Smith | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
You might have noticed something different about our cover. This will be the first issue in my thirteen years as editor of the magazine in which we don’t feature a real person on the cover. I thought that featuring a figurative sculpture—or imagined person, if you...
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 James P. Leary | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
America’s Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where for centuries many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk traditions. As the prominent American folklorist Richard M. Dorson observed in 1947: “Particularly in the Lake...
