Featured News, Grant News, Program News | Posted: September 23, 2014
Our Wyoming Arts Council colleague Michael Lange has been named the new WAC manager. Lange replaces Rita Basom, who recently retired. For the past two years, Lange, a native of Riverton, has been working as the Community Development and the Arts Specialist with the Wyoming Arts Council. Prior to this position, he was employed by the
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: August 8, 2014
The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s creative writing fellowships in fiction. They are Estella Soto of Laramie and Shawn Klomparens of Jackson. They each will receive a $3,000 award plus a $500 stipend to travel to Casper to read their work on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2-4 p.m., at the Equality
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: September 3, 2013
The work of 11 Wyoming artists will be featured Sept. 27, 2013 through Jan. 5, 2014, in “Ebb and Flow: From the Mountain Peaks to the Plains Below,” the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Biennial Exhibit at Casper’s Nicolaysen Art Museum. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 8, 5:30-8 p.m., to coincide with
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: August 29, 2013
The deadline for the 2013 performing arts fellowships in dance and theatre performance is Oct. 21, 2013. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and full-time residents of Wyoming. Applications will be accepted online through the Western States Arts Federation’s Call for Entry (CaFÉ) online system. It is free for artists to sign up with CaFÉ and
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: August 13, 2013
The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s creative writing fellowships in creative nonfiction. They are Chad Hanson of Casper, Mary Beth Baptiste of Laramie and Cheyenne’s Heather Jensen. They each will receive a $3,000 award plus a $500 stipend to travel to Casper to read their work at the
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: July 26, 2013
The majority of the Fiscal Year 2014 award packets that were approved by the WAC board in June have been mailed out to grantees. If your organization has not received your two-pocket award folder by August 15, please contact the WAC. The Subgrantee Award Agreement should be signed and returned to the WAC as soon
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: May 22, 2013
The Wyoming Arts Council will hold its quarterly board meeting in Laramie May 30-31. It will be held at the University of Wyoming Art Museum on the UW campus. Agenda items include the decisions on FY14 Grants to Organizations, Operating Support and Arts Education grants, review of WAC budgets, long-range planning, discussion of Art in
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: April 5, 2013
The Wyoming Arts Council’s Grants to Organization program will meet in the Carnegie Room of the Fremont County Public Library in Lander on April 26-27 to evaluate grant applications and make recommendations for funding of FY 2014 grant awards to the WAC Board. The panel meeting will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 26,
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: April 5, 2013
The Wyoming Arts Council’s Grants to Organization program will meet in the Carnegie Room of the Fremont County Public Library in Lander on April 26-27 to evaluate grant applications and make recommendations for funding of FY 2014 grant awards to the WAC Board. The panel meeting will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 26,
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Grant News | Posted: January 3, 2013
The WAC Visual Arts Fellowship application will be available in the next two weeks, with a deadline of mid- to late February so announcements may be made at the CLICK! conference in Laramie March 1-3, 2013. Applications this year will be accepted through CaFE online. Artists interested in applying may set up a free profile on CaFE at
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