Note: I will be compiling events which (I hope) will help students from various arts disciplines connect with business students to form innovative opportunities to collaborate and build creative knowledge. While my goal is to list as many resources as possible, I realize that many Madison area events may slip through. Please feel free to post a comment with amendments and/or additions to my Arts Enterprise Madison Arts Events Roundup post. Occasionally, I will include some regional and national events as they pertain to feedback I have received from students.... if you have anything to add, please don't hesitate to add to our list! Enjoy!
Musicians' Wellness Day, UW-Madison, 1321 Humanities
This past weekend saw a fantastic new event at UW-Madison in the School of Music titled 'Musicians' Wellness Day'. Sponsored and hosted by the UW-MTNA Collegiate Chapter, this interactive event saw over two dozen participants engage with faculty, staff, and student leaders from the music, dance, recreation/fitness, and nutrition departments!
We explored creative ways of defining musical movement through out own physical instrument, delved into a lecture/demonstration of the Feldenkrais method (if anyone is not familiar with this technique, check out the following site: http://www.feldenkraisinstitute.org/), and closed the day off with forty-five minutes of yoga. Oh, and I almost forgot the healthy, home-made treats afterwards which proved a satisfactory reward for all the effort.
After four-plus hours of physical activity we were all exhausted, but also invigorated with a renewed energy and awareness of the physical link between our bodies and music-making. I hope everyone who attended enjoyed the day as much as I did. Please post a comment about what you enjoyed about the event, and anything you'd like to see added or investigated again in future events. You can also check out the UW-MTNA page at: http://www.uwmtna.com/.
Looking ahead to the next few weeks one will find a wide range of events in the Madison arts calendar; I have a goal to create an AE Madison Events Roundup, with a full schedule of our upcoming meetings and sponsored events. This would ideally be a collaborative effort, so if you have arts events in Madison you'd like AE Madison to keep up with, please let me know!
Keep on the lookout for that as we develop our projects and event offerings. For now, though, check out these two exciting regional events which promise more opportunities for exploring the fun stuff that we all got a glimpse of at the AE Symposium earlier this month.
1) SEA North Conference, North Central College, Lisle, IL Feb. 27-28th 2009
This sounds like a great conference, one which is both highly student-centered and offers valuable opportunities to meet, mingle, and receive feedback. Artists, musicians, and entrepreneurial-minded students will have the opportunity to engage in a series of activites including: Inside the Industry Panels, Artist Led One-on-One Sessions, Performances, Art Show, Journal Blog, Jam Sessions, and more. For registration information, check out the website at: http://www.seasource.org/register.php
2) Springboard on the Road, Beloit Arts Incubator, Beloit, WI March 13-14th 2009
Springboard will present two workshops including one on "Marketing for Artists" and another for "Pricing Your Work: Getting Paid for What You Do." Don't miss these exciting events literally on Madison's doorstep! Springboard was here for the AE Symposium and people were raving at how helpful, knowledgeable, and creative the staff is. Springboard Website: http://www.springboardforthearts.org/Workshops/Workshop.asp
Friday, February 6, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
2009 UW-Madison Arts Enterprise Symposium: The Future of Music is Here!
It seems strange to open the first entry of a new blog with a statement about past events, but I'm going to do it anyway. I'm currently recovering from witnessing one of the greatest arts events in Madison's history. This is a bold statement, I know, for at least two reasons: 1) I haven't been in Madison forever and 2) My opinion is somewhat shaded because I'm a musician, so I'd say I'm partial to events that promote the arts.
That being said, The UW-Madison Arts Enterprise Symposium was quite simply the most exciting cross-disciplinary event that the city has perhaps ever seen - a weekend of workshops, seminars, passionate keynote addresses, and a student Venture Challenge competition that brought together the best and brightest of Madison's past, present, and future.
John Roach (the Emmy-winning filmmaker) was here. So was Leon Fleisher - yes, that Leon Fleisher. A head writer from the Colbert Report talked about his long, unexpected journey from the Onion to show business. Prominent Madison-based figures like Madison Symphony Orchestra conductor John DeMain and Andy Abrams (Director of the Four Seasons Theater) chimed in. UW Alum J.J. Sedelmaier outlined his path to survival as a cutting-edge independent animator in the age of 'Shrek' (his did the first season of Beavis and Butthead, by the way). Gary Beckman and Angela Beeching - pioneers in the world of arts entrepreneurship - gave impassioned, inspired, and revealing keynote addresses, and graciously took the time to give advice to students in the midst of a schedule which could have left even the most geared-up arts advocate exhausted.
Some of the most respected UW Professors from the arts gave perspectives on everything from the cross-pollination of art and business, to the various challenges the 21st century poses to artists, to how handle success when you finally 'get there'. This is just the beginning, but you can check out all the details at http://www.artsenterprise.wisc.edu/; in the coming weeks you'll see recaps about everything that happened over the blistening two and a half days. I hope you'll see the same in our local print media.
I want to move on to something else, though, because this literally groundbreaking event in the history of Madison is just the beginning of a movement which will quite literally shake the foundation of art as we know it. And I say this from the perspective of an admittedly awe-struck (but still marginally realistic) perspective. I should not be so shocked, after all, since I knew about the event and the people involved, and, as I've been lucky enough to share in some of this project through my role as a founding member in the UW-Madison Chapter of Arts Enterprise I should have expected that Stephanie Jutt and her partner Samatha Crownover would pull off something incredible (check out the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society). The thing is, I did have high expectations - they were just blown away. This seems like a really self-centered rant, but believe me these comments are meant as a statement about the event's impact from a humbled participant, one that was echoed time and again by those in attendance.
What is truly remarkable about what the Symposium accomplished is not that it brought these talented, fascinating people together. It is not due to the fact that students and community members (and there were lots and lots of both) had the chance to meet, mingle, and pick the brains of these generous and talented professionals. The true success of this event lies in the way it seamlessly brought together artists from all walks of life, from all over the country, behind a common ideal: the creation of a cutting edge forum for forging new ideas about the world of art, the renegotiation of art as a cultural and economic force for good, and the role and responsibilities of artists within the new social landscape of the current economic crisis. In the process we all had the unparalleled chance to collaborate in a truly entrepreneurial venture: the awakening to a new creative idiom through artistic empowerment, one which is flourishing as we speak across the country in events that are driven with the same passion and vision that made this Symposium so successful.
And as I started with a somewhat overblown statement about the past, let me just conclude with an (overly) optimistic stab at what I believe this experience means for the future: it is from the gestation of ideas that were formed this past weekend that you will see events launched which have never been seen before, and which will pay unrivaled dividends for Madison, the State of Wisconsin, and beyond for years to come.
But please don't take my word for it, get back to me about what you thought about the Symposium, or what you think we can do to keep the incredible buzz going!
http://www.artsenterprise.wisc.edu/
http://www.artsenterprise.com/
http://bachdancinganddynamite.org/
That being said, The UW-Madison Arts Enterprise Symposium was quite simply the most exciting cross-disciplinary event that the city has perhaps ever seen - a weekend of workshops, seminars, passionate keynote addresses, and a student Venture Challenge competition that brought together the best and brightest of Madison's past, present, and future.
John Roach (the Emmy-winning filmmaker) was here. So was Leon Fleisher - yes, that Leon Fleisher. A head writer from the Colbert Report talked about his long, unexpected journey from the Onion to show business. Prominent Madison-based figures like Madison Symphony Orchestra conductor John DeMain and Andy Abrams (Director of the Four Seasons Theater) chimed in. UW Alum J.J. Sedelmaier outlined his path to survival as a cutting-edge independent animator in the age of 'Shrek' (his did the first season of Beavis and Butthead, by the way). Gary Beckman and Angela Beeching - pioneers in the world of arts entrepreneurship - gave impassioned, inspired, and revealing keynote addresses, and graciously took the time to give advice to students in the midst of a schedule which could have left even the most geared-up arts advocate exhausted.
Some of the most respected UW Professors from the arts gave perspectives on everything from the cross-pollination of art and business, to the various challenges the 21st century poses to artists, to how handle success when you finally 'get there'. This is just the beginning, but you can check out all the details at http://www.artsenterprise.wisc.edu/; in the coming weeks you'll see recaps about everything that happened over the blistening two and a half days. I hope you'll see the same in our local print media.
I want to move on to something else, though, because this literally groundbreaking event in the history of Madison is just the beginning of a movement which will quite literally shake the foundation of art as we know it. And I say this from the perspective of an admittedly awe-struck (but still marginally realistic) perspective. I should not be so shocked, after all, since I knew about the event and the people involved, and, as I've been lucky enough to share in some of this project through my role as a founding member in the UW-Madison Chapter of Arts Enterprise I should have expected that Stephanie Jutt and her partner Samatha Crownover would pull off something incredible (check out the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society). The thing is, I did have high expectations - they were just blown away. This seems like a really self-centered rant, but believe me these comments are meant as a statement about the event's impact from a humbled participant, one that was echoed time and again by those in attendance.
What is truly remarkable about what the Symposium accomplished is not that it brought these talented, fascinating people together. It is not due to the fact that students and community members (and there were lots and lots of both) had the chance to meet, mingle, and pick the brains of these generous and talented professionals. The true success of this event lies in the way it seamlessly brought together artists from all walks of life, from all over the country, behind a common ideal: the creation of a cutting edge forum for forging new ideas about the world of art, the renegotiation of art as a cultural and economic force for good, and the role and responsibilities of artists within the new social landscape of the current economic crisis. In the process we all had the unparalleled chance to collaborate in a truly entrepreneurial venture: the awakening to a new creative idiom through artistic empowerment, one which is flourishing as we speak across the country in events that are driven with the same passion and vision that made this Symposium so successful.
And as I started with a somewhat overblown statement about the past, let me just conclude with an (overly) optimistic stab at what I believe this experience means for the future: it is from the gestation of ideas that were formed this past weekend that you will see events launched which have never been seen before, and which will pay unrivaled dividends for Madison, the State of Wisconsin, and beyond for years to come.
But please don't take my word for it, get back to me about what you thought about the Symposium, or what you think we can do to keep the incredible buzz going!
http://www.artsenterprise.wisc.edu/
http://www.artsenterprise.com/
http://bachdancinganddynamite.org/
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