Posted: February 18, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council and Treefort Music Fest have partnered to bring an official Wyoming Showcase featuring six Wyoming acts to Boise, Idaho this March. The six showcasing acts include: The Two Tracks (Sheridan), 10 Cent Stranger (Laramie), Speed the Pilgrim (Casper), Low Water String Band (Lander), Aaron Davis & The Mystery Machine (Jackson/Hoback), and
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Posted: February 6, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council board will hold its next quarterly meeting Thursday, Feb. 20 at Little America Hotel. 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 board
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Posted: February 4, 2020
The application process has begun for the Wyoming Arts Council’s Community Support Grant (CSG), a competitive grant program for project and/or operational support for qualified organizations that provide services to their community through the arts. Applications are available for programming and services that take place between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Final application
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Featured News | Posted: February 18, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council and Treefort Music Fest have partnered to bring an official Wyoming Showcase featuring six Wyoming acts to Boise, Idaho this March. The six showcasing acts include: The Two Tracks (Sheridan), 10 Cent Stranger (Laramie), Speed the Pilgrim (Casper), Low Water String Band (Lander), Aaron Davis & The Mystery Machine (Jackson/Hoback), and
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Featured News | Posted: February 6, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council board will hold its next quarterly meeting Thursday, Feb. 20 at Little America Hotel. 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 board
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Featured News, Grant News | Posted: February 4, 2020
The application process has begun for the Wyoming Arts Council’s Community Support Grant (CSG), a competitive grant program for project and/or operational support for qualified organizations that provide services to their community through the arts. Applications are available for programming and services that take place between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Final application
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Featured News | Posted: January 16, 2020
We’re looking for a Community Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Specialist. This position is responsible for overseeing the Community Support Grant and providing services to community organizations to help strengthen their capacity to offer arts programming. This position will also develop, implement, and manage initiatives addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the Wyoming
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Featured News | Posted: January 9, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2020 Blanchan and Doubleday Memorial Writing Awards. Applications are accepted online via Submittable at https://wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com/submit. The application deadline is March 11, 2020. The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award are made possible through the generosity of a private
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Featured News | Posted: January 7, 2020
The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting applications for the 2020 Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship. Now in its second year, this annual prestigious fellowship of $3,500 is a national call open to creative writers (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and journalists (writer, photojournalist, videographer, documentary filmmaker, online or print media) who demonstrate serious
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Featured News | Posted: December 23, 2019
Governor Mark Gordon has announced the recipients of the 2019 Governor’s Arts Awards. Recipients will be honored at a dinner and awards ceremony on Feb. 21, 2020 in Cheyenne. The recipients are: Jim Jackson, artisan and leatherworker from Sheridan; Robert Martinez, Native American visual artist from Riverton; Wendy Bredehoft, visual artist and educator from Laramie; WYO Theater,
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Featured News | Posted: December 5, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council and Treefort Music Fest are seeking musicians to perform at the March 25-29, music festival in Boise, Idaho. This is a statewide call open to Wyoming independent musicians of all genres. Several acts will be selected by the talent buyers at Treefort Music Fest and paid for their performance. Selected acts
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Featured News | Posted: December 4, 2019
An artist talk with Colorado sculptor, Delissalde, will be held at the Wyoming State Capitol on Tues., Dec. 10 at 1 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. It is presented in conjunction with the official celebration commemorating the 150th anniversary of Wyoming women’s suffrage. Delissalde was commissioned to create four allegorical
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Featured News | Posted: November 21, 2019
The WYOmericana Caravan committee has selected five diversely talented acts to take part in the collaborative tour in May/June 2020: Sarah Sample of Sheridan, Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine of Hoback, The Two Tracks of Sheridan, Jason Tyler Burton of Pinedale, and Shawn Hess of Laramie. The musicians were selected through an open call to
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