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The Wisconsin Arts Board seeks artists with project ideas for 2009 that involve collaborations with their Wisconsin communities. Submit project proposals to the Arts Board through the Artist & Community Collaborations (ACC) grant program. Submission deadline is October 15, 2008.

Lemon Street Gallery, 4601 Sheridan Road, will host an Artists’ Forum about this opportunity on Monday, September 8th at 5:00 PM and invites performing, visual, and literary artists of Kenosha, Racine, and surrounding areas to attend. Mark Fraire, Grants Specialist with Wisconsin Arts Board, will discuss the grant process and answer questions.

Lemon Street Gallery encourages all artists to attend this forum and apply for this grant. The Arts Board is particularly interested in applications from musicians, visual artists, and writers because these disciplines have been under-represented in past applicant pools.

Please RSVP to Melanie Hovey, Executive Director of Lemon Street Gallery, at (262) 605-4745 or at lemonstreetgallery@hotmail.com.

The global shift to a knowledge-based creative economy demands new strategies for states to compete successfully. A state’s role in providing the infrastructure necessary for growth today goes beyond traditional definitions - roads, bridges, dams and air traffic control - to include a healthy arts and culture industry to animate regional economic development.

The Council on Competitiveness recognized back in 2005 that “from an economic development perspective, many communities are still pursuing the old, incentive-based strategies. These don’t work in a world in which firm success depends ever more on the quality of ideas and talent, and ever less on traditional infrastructure. In a knowledge-based economy, new strategies are required to support the prosperity of American workers

Clck HERE to download the “NEW ECONOMIC FUNDING INITIATIVE” from the Wisconsin Arts Board