Posted: April 3, 2018
Maria Lisa Eastman of Hyattville and Renée Carrier of Hulett are the recipients of the Wyoming Arts Council’s 2018 Blanchan and Doubleday writing awards. Eastman won the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award for her entry, “Regarding the Others,” and Carrier received the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for her entry, “The Riven Country of
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Posted: March 9, 2018
Wyoming’s 13th Annual Poetry Out Loud State Competition took place Monday night in Cheyenne. High school students from across the state competed for a $200 prize, a $500 stipend for their school to purchase poetry books, and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete at the National Finals. Lauren Haiar became Wyoming’s 2018 State
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Posted: February 23, 2018
Governor Matt Mead delivered his annual State of the Arts address Friday, Feb. 9th at the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards in Cheyenne and presented four awards for 2017. The Governor talked about the importance of the arts to Wyoming, noting they areimportant to quality of life, community well-being, and business recruitment, development, and diversification –
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Featured News | Posted: April 3, 2018
Maria Lisa Eastman of Hyattville and Renée Carrier of Hulett are the recipients of the Wyoming Arts Council’s 2018 Blanchan and Doubleday writing awards. Eastman won the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award for her entry, “Regarding the Others,” and Carrier received the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for her entry, “The Riven Country of
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Uncategorized | Posted: March 26, 2018
This opportunity comes courtesy of our friends at the Chugwater Chili Cookoff. Check out their letter to artists below, then download your entry form. We are gearing up for another successful year at Wyoming’s largest single-day event, the State Championship Chili Cook-Off held right here in Chugwater, Wyoming! We will feature again this year Red and Green
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Uncategorized | Posted: March 13, 2018
The Wyoming Arts Council is excited to invite you to participate in one of this year’s Creativity Connects round table/community discussions in Jackson. This community conversation is an opportunity for artists, community organizers, and professional creatives of all types to discuss issues that affect the arts. The event will take place on Monday, March 19
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Uncategorized | Posted: March 12, 2018
Bighorn Canyon is in its fifth year of the Artists in Residence program. Fourteen artists from around the country and locally, applied for the Bighorn Canyon AIR program. Five amazing artists were selected. “The samples the artists sent with their applications were amazing. We had a hard time picking our top five and would have
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Featured News | Posted: March 9, 2018
Wyoming’s 13th Annual Poetry Out Loud State Competition took place Monday night in Cheyenne. High school students from across the state competed for a $200 prize, a $500 stipend for their school to purchase poetry books, and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete at the National Finals. Lauren Haiar became Wyoming’s 2018 State
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Featured News | Posted: February 23, 2018
Governor Matt Mead delivered his annual State of the Arts address Friday, Feb. 9th at the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards in Cheyenne and presented four awards for 2017. The Governor talked about the importance of the arts to Wyoming, noting they areimportant to quality of life, community well-being, and business recruitment, development, and diversification –
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Featured News | Posted: February 20, 2018
The Wyoming Arts Council will host the Poetry Out Loud State Finals Competition on Monday, March 5th at 7 p.m. at the Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W 20th Street. Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 6 at 10:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Barrett Building, 2301 Central Avenue. The public
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: February 7, 2018
The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting applications for the 2018 Blanchan and Doubleday Memorial Writing Awards. Applications are accepted online via Submittable at wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com/submit. The application deadline is March 9. The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award are made possible through the generosity of a private donor. The
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: February 1, 2018
The Community Support Grant (CSG) is a competitive grant program for project and/or operational support for organizations that provide services to their community through the arts. Applications are open for programs and services held between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. Final application deadline is April 1. Organizations that did not receive a Community Support Grant
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Featured News | Posted: January 22, 2018
The Wyoming Arts Council board will hold a quarterly meeting Thursday and Friday, February 8-9at The Second Floor at The Paramount in Cheyenne. Beginning at 1 p.m. on Thursday the board will convene to hear reports, plan for upcoming events, get updates on current Arts Council initiatives, and conduct business. An executive session may be called if necessary. The meeting continues from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on
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