Furthering the Wisconsin Idea

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL OUTREACH

Big Screens, Little Folks

Big Screens, Little Folks hosted 1,875 students, teachers, and chaperones to the Festival. Students in grades K-2 watched a program of international shorts and students in grades 3-5 watched the feature length animated film, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales. Thirty elementary school and homeschool groups and ten high schools participated in the student matinee field trips. A comprehensive study guide was given to all groups in advance to supplement their learning.

Due to popular demand from previous years, another “Stop Motion Animation Workshop” was held in partnership with the Madison Public Library and Glendale Elementary School.

High school students from around the state were treated to a feature film from China, The Taste of Rice Flower, as part of World Cinema Day.

Screens for Teens

The Screens for Teens program provided nine screenings of these programs: Rwanda & Juliet, or Cliff, Superfan! and Brown Girl in Baraboo, Madison, and Sheboygan. At each screening, the filmmakers joined in for a post screening Q&A session either in person or via Skype. A study guide was provided at each screening to explore media literacy and the films’ themes.

Acclaimed documentary Rwanda & Juliet, traces the impact of the Rwandian genocide with a contemporary production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet. Cliff, Superfan! and Brown Girl, two shorts from Wisconsin’s Own, address issues of racial identity in contemporary American culture. Supplemental study guides explored the films’ themes and media literacy.

Tuesday Night Movie Club

As part of the celebration surrounding the 20th annual Wisconsin Film Festival, a monthly screening series, Tuesday Night Movie Club, was held from October through March. This collaboration with the WUD Film Committee was free to the public and presented a selection of features and shorts from past Wisconsin Film Festivals. Screenings were held at The Marquee at Union South. The series started with the popular Best of the British Arrows and ended with a special screening of Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas highlighted by a post-film Q&A with the filmmaker.

“The Screens for Teens project is an amazingly worthwhile and important program which brings quality films to many students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to engage in these works. Young people are enriched, inspired and challenged in ways that only quality film and filmmakers can.”

– Ron Parker, Appleton North High School

MADISON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Key Highlights

f 43 classes f 10 midday and pre-concert lectures f 7 concerts f 1 dance event f 120 workshop participants f 40 guest artists, faculty & lecturers f 23 work-study positions f 2,910 Festival attendees at concerts, lectures, and dance event

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The Madison Early Music Festival (MEMF) was created in 1999 to provide an opportunity for musicians, scholars, teachers, students, and music enthusiasts to study medieval, Renaissance, and baroque music in its social, cultural, and political contexts, and to present concerts by acclaimed artists who specialize in historically inspired performance of early music. Since 2015, the Arts Institute has presented MEMF in partnership with the Mead Witter School of Music.

The Madison Early Music Festival Workshop and Concert Series, Journey to Lübeck: A Cabinet of Curiosities (July 7-14), explored the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and how the changes in religion and 16th century printed materials changed the world. To kick-off the 2018 season, a fundraiser was held in March where 60 attendees enjoyed an evening of early music and traditional German food.

MEMF welcomed 120 participants (the largest attendance ever), faculty, and guest artists for a week of workshop classes, lectures, and concerts that explored music, history, and culture. For the capstone, participants performed with award-winning faculty for the MEMF All-Festival Concert, A Journey to Lübeck: Music from the Choir Library of the Marienkirche.

Guest Artists

f Abendmusik featuring MEMF Faculty f Piffaro, The Renaissance Band f Quicksilver f Schola Antiqua of Chicago

JULY 7-14, 2018

A Cabinet of Curiosities: Journey to Lübeck

ARTS ON CAMPUS & RECRUITMENT

Arts on Campus is the gateway to arts units, events, and news on campus. During the 2017–18 academic year, the Arts Institute collaborated with and promoted numerous campus units through student recruitment and increased awareness of the arts at UW–Madison via communication channels on campus and throughout the state including advertising/marketing, outreach, and resource fairs.

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Arts Recruitment September 2018. This project marks the first In spring of 2018 the Arts Institute launched a creative spaces on campus. promotional campaign to showcase the Arts on cross-campus collaborative effort to highlight the Campus for prospective and incoming students with input from the Arts Recruitment Working Arts on Campus Group and Office of Admissions and Recruitment In the summer of 2017, the division was invited (OAR). As part of the Office of the Provost’s by the Student Orientation, Advising, and recruitment charge, a graphic identity, brochure, Registration (SOAR) office to give Arts on Campus website, and table display were developed to promote our vibrant community of creative 100+ student presentations to families of first-year students. For the summer of 2018, the division and its affiliates largest campus-produced excellence within an internationally-renowned research university. Materials highlighted academics, facilities, arts organizations staffed an Arts on Campus resource table during 25+ sessions of SOAR. Staff continued to serve a wide range of units FILM FESTIVAL in the US co-curricular opportunities, arts and by promoting their events and programs. entrepreneurship, and creative communities. The division also worked with the OAR office for the 30+ galleries From academic arts departments and student organizations to campus galleries and theaters 3 cinemas8 theatres inaugural Arts Yield Day in April. and diverse community projects, partners The Arts Institute developed the Creative Campus Tour, an interactive walking tour of fine arts programs on campus that launched benefitted from design, publicity, social media coverage, videography, photography, email communications, and/or outreach support. 2 ND largest ART MUSEUM in the state

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“I knew that I wanted to go to school in a city that had both a great art and music scene, and after touring UW–Madison, I knew that it was my #1 choice.”

–Audrey Hansa, Art undergrad

STAFF LIST*

Office of the Director

John Baldacchino, Director Sarah Chapeau, Assistant to the Director

Administration

Staci Francis, Associate Director Adriane Melchert, Financial Specialist Mallory Murphy, Assistant Director for Outreach Programs; Wisconsin Film Festival Operations Coordinator Lisa Spierer, Assistant Director for Media and Technology

Curriculum and Programs

Kate Hewson, Assistant Director for Academic Programs

External Relations

Aaron Granat, Videographer Anna January, Assistant Director for Development Kate Lochner, Digital Marketing Specialist Heather Owens, Audience Development & Communications Specialist Cathy Sheets, Art Director

Outreach Programs

Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, Madison Early Music Festival Artistic Director Terry Kerr, Wisconsin Film Festival Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Marty, Madison Early Music Festival Program Coordinator Ben Reiser, Wisconsin Film Festival Outreach & Community Engagement Manager

The Studio – Creative Arts Community

Faisal Abdu’Allah, The Studio Faculty Director Marina Kelly, The Studio Program Coordinator

*As of June 30, 2018

For a current list of staff, visit: artsdivision.wisc.edu