Contact: Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin
608 255 8316 | akatz@artswisconsin.org
Intensive weekend workshops held monthly October 14-15, 2011 through April 2012, at the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts in Amery, WI
Amery, WI —- Arts Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s statewide arts service, advocacy, and development organization, invites applicants for the fifth RURAL ARTS MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, to be held at the nationally-acclaimed Northern Lakes Center for the Arts in Amery, Wisconsin, October 2011 through April 2012. RAM is an essential training and educational program that brings together that community and benefitting artists, performers, organizational representatives and creative entrepreneurs in rural communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota and throughout the Upper Midwest. RAM helps rural creative entrepreneursincrease their personal and organizational effectiveness and sustainability, understand the obstacles and opportunities involved in this compelling community-based work, and develop strong leadership skills essential to succeed now and in the future. Whether participants are starting a business or organization, or want to strengthen the work they’ve been doing, RAM gives the useful, inspiring skills and ideas needed. RAM graduates have consistently said the program is well worth the time, money and energy invested.
In six months of weekend workshops, participants will learn how to:
* Understand Community: the special requirements of developing the arts in rural areas
* Build An Organization: organizational development, legal and tax issues and working with boards
* Go from Planning Into Practice: developing and evaluating programs
* Find The Funding: budgets, fund-raising and proposal development
* Spread the Word: marketing, participant recruitment and advocacy.
* Move forward: completion of an Institute implementation plan and follow-up networks and resources
The first session for 2011-2012 begins October 14-15, 2011; the final session will be held in April 2012. Tuition for the full six-month program is $600, which includes room and board and is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Arts Board, Xcel Energy Foundation, and the Kohler Foundation. Partial scholarships and flexible pay plans are available.
Click here for more information and an application. Questions should be directed to Anne Katz, Executive Director of Arts Wisconsin, at akatz@artswisconsin.org or 608 255 8316.
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About Arts Wisconsin: Arts Wisconsin, the state’s arts service and advocacy organization, believes that the arts are integral to the lives of the people of Wisconsin, and advocates and speaks up so that everyone in Wisconsin can have the opportunity to experience the arts. Arts Wisconsin serves Wisconsin’s creative community and the general public through advocacy and public policy, promotion and visibility, research and information, professional and leadership development, and strategic partnerships. Arts Wisconsin received the 2004 Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts from the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts and has been recognized as one of the leading arts advocacy organizations in the country.
About the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts: The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts, established in 1989, is a nationally-recognized arts center located in northwest Wisconsin, and is a recipient of the Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts from the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts. LaMoine MacLaughlin is co-founder and Executive Director of the Northern Lakes Center, an active musician and writer, Director of the NorthernNorthern Lakes Center for the Arts Lakes Chamber Orchestra, an instructor at the Northern Lakes School of the Arts, director of educational programs for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and editor of The Hometown Gazette, the newspaper serving the Clayton, WI area.
