Arts Day 2010 - March 2 and 3, 2010
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center and State Capitol, Madison
Why is advocacy so important?
Making the case for the arts and creativity
2010 Arts Legislative Agenda
Arts Day 2010 Schedule
Arts Day 2010 Partners
Arts Day 2010
FAQs
2010 Arts Action
Toolkit
State Legislators' Contact Information
More ways to connect with
your elected officials!
Arts Day 2010 press release 1-29-2010 (.pdf format)
Join our Legislative Action Center E-list!
Links to other websites on the arts, advocacy and the creative economy
What is Arts Day?
On Arts Day, hundreds of representatives of Wisconsin’s extraordinary
arts community came together for one day to:
• Celebrate all that's happening in the arts across Wisconsin
• Connect with old and new friends
• Educate legislators about the importance of investing in the arts,
to strengthen Wisconsin’s economy, educational system, and social
infrastructure.
Each year, representatives of the arts from around Wisconsin -- small
rural choirs and suburban community theaters, presenters and big organizations,
museums and art centers of all sizes, painters, tenors, dancers, cellists,
french horn players, arts administrators, board members and YOU --join
together for this big day. Past participants have enthusiastically reported
two things about Arts Day:
• First, they feel empowered by gathering together with like-minded people. Each year, hundreds of Wisconsin arts leaders participate in Arts Day.
• Second, they say that Arts Day is the best arts networking event of the year. This is one of the only times that Wisconsin’s diverse, multi-layered and fabulous arts industry gathers together in one place, to show what a strong, vital arts community we have in Wisconsin. Events like Arts Day, combined with advocacy at home, lead to greater understanding by decision-makers of the power of the arts to transform Wisconsin’s communities. Now, we’re looking for significant increases in state arts funding. The unified voice of the arts community is critical to this success.
This year, in the face of local, state and global current economic woes
and the upcoming campaigns for important political offices, the state's
elected leaders and decision-makers must hear from as many arts advocates
as possible about the public value of the arts for Wisconsin's future.
If there ever was a time that we needed the arts, it's now.
This is our moment, because creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
- all qualities inherent to the arts - are the qualities needed to move
our economy, educational systems, and civic infrastructure forward.
Join us in person yourself, and bring as many colleagues, friends and
relatives to Madison as you can. Simply put: the greater our
numbers, the louder our voice. We especially urge you to
consider making the trip to Madison for Arts Day if there's going to be
a big Senate or Assembly legislative race in your area.
Decision-makers need to be educated about the importance of the arts to
everyone, everywhere in Wisconsin, every day of the year. It’s especially
important this year to be out in full force to come to Madison on Arts
Day to say, "please invest in the arts in your community
and across the state!"
It's a great day for the arts and for Wisconsin.
Advocacy is being able to speak to where your audience is listening
from.
~ Ben Cameron, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The arts are essential to Wisconsin's cultural and spiritual quality of life, to our economic development, and to the education of our children-- arts and cultural opportunities should be a priority when public policy is made!
- Arts Advocacy is democracy in action.
- Arts Advocacy is all about relationships.
- Arts Advocacy is a discipline.
- Arts Advocacy requires teamwork.
- Arts Day and other activities throughout the year advance advocacy for the arts on the local, regional and statewide levels.
2010 Arts Legislative Agenda (draft)
- Encourage expanded state investment in the arts, culture, creativity and education through the Wisconsin Arts Board’s New Economy Funding Initiative and investment in other state agencies
- Support arts and creative involvement and opportunities to provide 21st century education for all Wisconsin students
- Encourage regional development, civic engagement, and creative economy programs and policies to benefit Wisconsin and all of its communities.
Read talking points here: Making the Case for Arts and Creativity.
Arts Day 2010 Partners
to date
Sponsoring Partners
Supporter
Donors
- Arts @ Large, Milwaukee
- Arts Wisconsin
- Broadjam, Inc.
- PortalWisconsin.org
- The Widget Source, Middleton
- Wisconsin Presenters Network
Sponsors
- AIA Wisconsin: A Society of The American Institute of Architects
- Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras
- Big Shoes Network, Milwaukee
- Ward-Brodt Music Company, Madison
- Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
- Wisconsin Federation of Museums
- Wisconsin Regional Writers Association
- Wisconsin School Music Association
Endorsing Partners
- AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists) Wisconsin
- Leadership Wisconsin
- Theatre Wisconsin
- Tourism Federation of Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Advocates for Music Education
- Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education
- Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople
- Wisconsin Alliance of Cities
- Wisconsin Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus
- Wisconsin Downtown Action Council
- Wisconsin Economic Development Association
- Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts
- Wisconsin Main Street Program
- Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum
- Wisconsin Visual Artists
- Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Awards
Elected officials and dignitaries at the Legislative Breakfast:
- Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton
- State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers
- check back for updates!
Meeting with Your Legislators
How to be an
effective advocate for the arts in your community on Arts Day and
every day.
Legislators'
Contact Infomation
Phone number, e-mail
and office location of all legislators, by district (find
your district here).
Information on hotels, dining and things to do in Madison.
Check out:
- Arts Day 2009 video, courtesy of Wisconsin Eye
- Arts Day 2009 photos
updated 2-1-2010