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Arts Day 2012
Tuesday-Wednesday, March 13-14, 2012

UPDATE 3-9-12: SCHEDULE CHANGE BELOW!

Arts Day events will take place at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center (two blocks from the Capitol Square) in downtown Madison. Legislative visits will take place at the State Capitol. The pre-Arts Day workshop will take place at the Risser Justice Building, 1/2 block from the State Capitol.
schedule current as of 3-9-12

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Pre-Arts Day workshop for local arts leaders
Conference room, 1st floor, Risser Justice Building, 120 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison
Free, but pre-registration is required (on Arts Day registration form or send a message to akatz@artswisconsin.org).

1-5 pm:

1-2 pm: Introductions and updates

2-3 pm: Integrated Marketing Communications for Entrepreneurs (or, social media - why it's really important for you to jump in and use it!)
Whether you’re social savvy or just getting started, the world of social media evolves so quickly even the experts can have a hard time keeping up. Alex Fortney, Marketing Director of Madison's Food Fight, Inc., and Maggie Baum of Maggie B Commuications, will review the impact that social media has had on today’s marketing environment and show you how you can use these tools to build your audience and move them to act.

3-4 pm: PortalWisconsin.org - promoting the arts, culture and heritage locally, regionally and statewide
with Tammy Kempfert, Director, PortalWisconsin.org

4-5 pm: Speaking up for the arts - advocacy information and training for Wisconsin arts leaders
with Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin, and special guests

* Advocacy 101 – specifics about pro-active and effective advocacy for the arts
* Why advocacy is so important to your work in and for the community
* What can you do to speak up for the arts on Arts Day and every day?
* Politics, the state budget and what it means to you, your organization and your community
* 2012 Arts Legislative Agenda

Additional pre-Arts Day sessions

5 pm

  • Arts Wisconsin advocacy captains meeting

6:15 pm

  • Dutch treat dinner for arts activists - if you come to Madison the night before Arts Day, join your colleagues for dinner and conversation! Location TBA

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Arts Day 2012

Starting at 8 am at Monona Terrace

  • Registration

8:30-10:15 am

  • Arts Day Legislative Breakfast
    8:30 am: Continental breakfast and networking
    9:15 am:
    • Welcome: Debra Karp, President, Board of Directors, Arts Wisconsin
    • Arts in the Community award presentation to State Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar
    •Remarks:     Barbara Lawton, Chair, Wisconsin Arts Board; Stephanie Klett, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Tourism, and Dave Fantle, Deputy Director, Wisconsin Department of Tourism
    • Keynote speaker: Ra Joy, Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois
    Ra Joy is an artist and arts advocate with extensive experience in public policy and the congressional arena. As executive director for one of the premier statewide advocacy organization's in the nation, Mr. Joy oversees research, capacity building and communication efforts to advance widespread support for the arts and arts education in Illinois. Prior to joining the Illinois Arts Alliance, Mr. Joy served for six years as a senior staffer for U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-9). Motivated by the belief that democracy is a verb and the instinct to be creative is universal, Mr. Joy serves as Chair of the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival and is a member of the board of directors for Mikva Challenge. Prior to joining the Illinois Arts Alliance, Mr. Joy served for six years as a senior staffer for U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-9). Motivated by the belief that democracy is a verb and the instinct to be creative is universal, Mr. Joy serves as Chair of the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival and is a member of the board of directors for Mikva Challenge. He was selected as a fellow for the 2005 class of Leadership Greater Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Illinois University. Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois he currently resides in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood with his wife, Falona, and their three sons.
    •P    erformance: Young Shakespeare Players of Madison, performing scenes from "Twelfth Night"

10:30-11 am

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

  • Workshop discussion for creative administrators and entrepreneurs
    "Creative placemaking” - making a difference throughout Wisconsin
    Presenters: Kevin Miller, Director, Windhover Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, and Dean Yohnk, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Debra Karp, Director of Community Partnerships, UW Parkside; Matt Heindl, The Naked Elm, Blue Mounds. "Creative Placemaking" describes the ways in which arts, culture and creativity expressed powerfully through place can create vibrant communities, thus increasing the desire and the economic, educational and civic opportunity for people to thrive in place. There’s plenty of that going on throughout Wisconsin! This session will focus on innovative projects in downtown Fond du Lac, at UW-Parkside, and Blue Mounds. Bring your questions and join the discussion!

12 noon

  • Performance by the Edgewood High School Orchestra, directed by Carrie Backman, sponsored by the Wisconsin School Music Association
    State Capitol Rotunda

12:30 pm

  • Performance by the Lincoln Elementary School (Madison) Choir
    Monona Terrace Ballroom A

12:30 - 2:30 pm

  • Box lunch Arts Day participants and legislators - the lunches will be available and the room will be open for lunch and conversation
    Monona Terrace

12:50 pm

  • Arts Day participants group photo - meet (outside) at the walkway entrance to Monona Terrace

SCHEDULE CHANGE:

1 pm

  • The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) will meet in Room 412 East in the State Capitol. One of the agenda items is consideration of a request from the Department of Tourism on behalf of the Wisconsin Arts Board:

The Department of Tourism requests a supplement of $68,900 GPR in fiscal year 2011-12 from the Committee's appropriation under s. 20.865(4)(a) to the department's state aid for teh arts appropriation under s. 20.380(3)(b) to match additional federal funding granted from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This additional funding was added to the Arts Board's budget during the 2011 budget process, with JFC approval, to match the amount of funding provided to the Arts Board by the National Endowment for the Arts. Procedurally, JFC must now vote to add the money since it wasn't included in the original 2011-2013 budget proposed by Gov. Walker.

It's a great coincidence that the meeting is happening on Arts Day, because it gives arts advocates a great opportunity to show support for the arts and the Arts Board. All Arts Day participants are encouraged to attend the meeting wearing their "The Arts Create" button or tshirt (available at Monona Terrace during Arts Day), so that the JFC members see that the arts are important to the people of Wisconsin! There won't be a chance to speak, but the numbers of people attending will make a positive impression on the Committee members.

We'll have box lunches available at Monona Terrace before and after the JFC meeting. You can't eat in the hearing room, but can eat first or come back to Monona Terrace after.

10 am-4 pm

  • Constituent meetings with legislators
    State Capitol

Featured during the day at Monona Terrace:

  • Exhibit tables with Arts Day sponsoring organizations
  • "The Arts Create" video project - tell us what the arts create for you!

  • Essential community arts publications for sale
    from Arts Wisconsin