Arts Wisconsin 2012 Board of Directors
Debra Karp, Racine - President
Director, Community-Based Scholarship and Nonprofit Development, UW Parkside
Ben Richgruber, Eau Claire - Vice President
Executive Director, Eau Claire Regional Arts Council
Kate Rericha, Sturgeon Bay - Secretary
Director of Development, Birch Creek Music Center, Egg Harbor
Nikolas C. George, Jr., Madison - Treasurer
Executive Director, Midwest Food Processors Association
Daniel Goscha, Rhinelander
Design Professor, Nicolet College/President, RedKite Press
Frank Juarez, Sheboygan
Chair, Art Department, Sheboygan North High School
Larry MacDonald, Bayfield
Mayor, City of Bayfield
Christine Moeller, Webster
Executive Director, Siren Chamber of Commerce
Christopher Naumann, Green Bay
Director, On Broadway, Inc., Green Bay
Carole Spelic, Mineral Point
Director, Green Lantern Studios, Mineral Point/Lecturer, UW Platteville
Jennifer Williams Terpstra, La Crosse
Chair, Art Department, UW-LaCrosse
Jon Winkle, Brookfield
Executive Director, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield
STAFF
Anne Katz, Executive Director
Deborah Hearst, Program Associate
Box 1054
Madison, WI 53701-1054
608 255 8316
info@artswisconsin.org
www.artswisconsin.org
Larry MacDonald: Larry is serving his 7th term as Mayor of the eco-municipality of Bayfield, WI. He has combined serving on the Chequamegon Bay Alliance for Sustainability, the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Advisory Council, the Wisconsin Coastal Management Council, the Friends of the Apostle Islands and most recently joined the Arts Wisconsin Board, while aggressively supporting the passage of the Great Lakes Water Compact and other community oriented activities to provide a well rounded and practical approach to working toward goals for community preservation and sustainability.
Larry firmly believes that everyone should receive compensatory time off during all Packer games and that billboards should disappear in Wisconsin. Living next to the greatest of all the Great Lakes, Lake Superior has helped to define his life. He has voyaged over 10,000 miles on the Great lakes in sailboats; mostly on Lake Superior.
Owning a B&B in the City of Bayfield since 1989, Larry and his wife Julie continue to have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. Julie enjoys a portion of her free time by painting with watercolors.
Larry has a background in ski area and golf course management and he spent a year researching the feasibility of frog farming in Acapulco, Mexico during the late 1970’s. He actually had a real job once; it lasted for 6 months, which was the worst 6 months of his life.
His favorite quote: "All the water that will ever be, is right now."
Debra Karp serves as Director of the Nonprofit Institute as well as the Director of the Arts Management Program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Debra holds a master’s degree in business from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a program of the UW-Madison Business School. With over 20 years experience working with nonprofit organizations as a staff member, volunteer and Board Director as well as a panelist for funding agencies, Debra offers insight in marketing, planning, grantwriting and other fundraising activities for nonprofit organizations. Her training in the Diagnostic Clinic program has sharpened her skills and ability to assess the needs of nonprofits and generate productive solutions to help build capacity.
Kate Rericha: Since October 2005, Ms. Rericha has been Director of Marketing, Public Relations and Grants for Birch Creek Music Performance Center, Inc. in Egg Harbor, where she plans, administers, coordinates, and evaluates marketing, public relations, and grantseeking programs to maximize Birch Creek's concert and academic offerings. Ms. Rericha researches arts and education grant opportunities from government agencies and private foundations; assesses grant opportunities as they align with Birch Creek's mission statement, and applies for appropriate funding annually. She works closely with the executive director to establish measurable grant implementation policies and procedures with the goal of building a sustainable grantseeking program that demonstrates the highest standards of organizational accountability, professionalism and ethical conduct.
Ms. Rericha's past work has positioned her as a leading grants administrator and grant writer for non-profit organizations in the arts, health and human service agencies and public education. Before coming to Birch Creek, she authored over 50 grants, applications for federal funding reimbursements, and technology plans for nonprofit organizations and public school districts with a success/certification rate of 83%, securing more than $3,000,000 for rural Northeast Wisconsin.
Kate Rericha is an arts educator with over thirty years of experience in a variety of environments including pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade public and private schools, technical colleges, arts centers and museums, and nursing homes. Ms. Rericha holds a degree in art education from UW-Oshkosh. Recently elected Secretary of the Arts Wisconsin board, Kate serves her local community through volunteer board leadership and her state community through grant reading and program evaluation.
As the grant administrator for the Peninsula Arts Association from 2002-2005, she was awarded the 2004 Pride in Place Award by the Door County Visitor Bureau in for planning Door County Summit for the Arts, and in 2005 she organized a Town Hall meeting between Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and 20 arts organizations and artists from Door and Kewaunee counties to discuss funding challenges to small organizations.
Carole Spelic is Director of UW Platteville's ArtsBuild program, and is an artist who creates elegant globe and vessel forms in papier mache with reverse patterning derived from Tibetan Tiber rugs, Gregg shorthand and map imagery of invented worlds. Originally from the east coast, she earned an MFA and then spent 17 years as a working artist in Manhattan. She now lives and works in Mineral Point. Carole and her artist partner, Richard Moninski, operate the Green Lantern Studios where they make and show their own work as well as offering changing exhibits of work by national and regional artists.