Posted: March 18, 2019
A series of performances of “Hot Tamale Louie: The Story of Zarif Khan, a tale told through Jazz,” will be presented throughout Wyoming April 10-13. Developed by Professor John Rapson of the University of Iowa School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program, “Hot Tamale Louie” is a powerful multimedia performance piece about an early 20th-century immigrant
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Posted: February 25, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council hosts the Poetry Out Loud State Finals Competition on Mon., March 4 at 7 p.m. at the College Community Center Playhouse at Laramie County Community College, 1400 East College Drive in Cheyenne. Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Tues., March 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the lobby of the
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Posted: February 12, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council is offering grant writing workshops for arts organizations, fiscally-sponsored projects, nonprofits, school districts, or government entities that are interested in applying to the Arts Council’s Community Support Grant (CSG). Join the Arts Council at one of the application workshops listed below. Workshops are designed to help applicants prepare their grant applications.
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Featured News | Posted: March 18, 2019
A series of performances of “Hot Tamale Louie: The Story of Zarif Khan, a tale told through Jazz,” will be presented throughout Wyoming April 10-13. Developed by Professor John Rapson of the University of Iowa School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program, “Hot Tamale Louie” is a powerful multimedia performance piece about an early 20th-century immigrant
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Featured News | Posted: February 25, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council hosts the Poetry Out Loud State Finals Competition on Mon., March 4 at 7 p.m. at the College Community Center Playhouse at Laramie County Community College, 1400 East College Drive in Cheyenne. Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Tues., March 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the lobby of the
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Featured News | Posted: February 12, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council is offering grant writing workshops for arts organizations, fiscally-sponsored projects, nonprofits, school districts, or government entities that are interested in applying to the Arts Council’s Community Support Grant (CSG). Join the Arts Council at one of the application workshops listed below. Workshops are designed to help applicants prepare their grant applications.
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Featured News | Posted: January 31, 2019
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 2/1/19 for programs and services held between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020. Final application deadline is April 1. Organizations that did not receive a
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Featured News | Posted: January 29, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council board will hold its next quarterly meeting Thursday, February 7 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 invites individuals and organizational representatives to attend any part
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Featured News | Posted: January 24, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting applications for the 2019 Blanchan and Doubleday Memorial Writing Awards. Applications are accepted online via Submittable at https://wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com/submit. The application deadline is March 11, 2019. 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 Doubleday
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Featured News | Posted: January 15, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council, with generous funding from The Pattie and Earle Layser Memorial Fund announces the Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship. This new fellowship is a national call open to writers and journalists and seeks to intersect science, education, current events, and conservation to effectively communicate the Greater Yellowstone’s natural history and singular importance to society
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Featured News | Posted: January 2, 2019
The Wyoming Arts Council announces that a new call for entry for public art is now open. The University of Wyoming is constructing a new Science Initiative Building on the campus in Laramie. Through the State of Wyoming’s Art in Public Buildings program, artwork will be commissioned for the new facility.A Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
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Featured News | Posted: December 4, 2018
Governor Matt Mead has announced the recipients of the Wyoming Arts Council’s 2018 Governor’s Arts Awards. Recipients will be honored at a dinner and awards ceremony on Feb. 8 in Cheyenne. This year’s recipients are: Visual artist and educator Karyne Dunbar from Shell Artisan and leatherworker Keith Seidel from Cody Ceramics artist, educator, and editor Elaine
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Featured News | Posted: December 11, 2018
Join the Wyoming Arts Council and the UW Art Museum for a follow up phone call with artist, educator, advocate for artists, and editor Sharon Louden on Wednesday, Dec. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon. Louden currently has a site-specific installation in the lobby of the UW Art Museum, “Windows at the University of Wyoming,” and
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