FEBRUARY/MARCH 1993 Complimentary VOLUME 7 . ISSUE 3 **»% ^vrnninivrnn re at or eg rtfacf>if(<j> tvftk Do de 73 •illilllPlPllS Michele Oka Doner, "Doll, 1968," porcelain, 18 in. x 6V2 in. x 14 in. (tttefiMeui: ui^f. (Jones 22 Haggerty Museum of Art By Bebra Brehmer Marquette University Dolls in Contemporary Art: Metaphors of Personal Identity March 18 through June 16, 1993 Opening Lecture: Curtis Carter, exhibition curator and director of Haggerty Museum of Art, March 18, 6 p.m. Straz Hall, adjacent to the Museum. Opening Reception: from 7 - 9 p.m. following the lecture in the Museum. Performance/Lecture: "The Art of Sandplay: Mirroring the Soul," James Stewart, artist and play therapist, March 19, 7 p.m. in the Museum. 5 All events are free and open to the public. Aft? Hours: Mori-Sat 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Th 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sun noon 5 p.m. 13th and Clyboum tatters 9 Post Facto 70 Caoe>n<tatc 26 Madison Calendar 32 C/t>icao>o Catena/0 33 Cathms 35 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Here's the thing: every other month you get this magazine. It looks good, and it's terribly useful. It has all kinds of interesting reviews, articles about artists and collectors and works by artists. It also has comprehensive listings of opportunities and grants information for artists, performing artists, writers and composers, and a complete calendar of events. It's Wisconsin's only fine arts magazine. And the amazing part about it is that it's free. If you're like most people, you probably don't pay a thing for it. 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She will be bringing a Arts has taken over the past few years, a group of Wisconsin obtain an enriched theater experi­ major national artists' book exhibit to artists and arts administrators has joined together to found the gallery next fall. t ence for eight plays remaining in the Arts Wisconsin, a new state-wide arts advocacy group. "We're '92-93 season through Artreach Marietta Hedges is the new marketing in an economic time that is not good for the arts,'' says Milwaukee's new Audio Description director of the Skylight Opera Theatre. Milwaukee arts consultant Gretchen Thomson, a founding The former New Yorker has a back­ member of the group. "Funding is hard to find, and there's Service. Trained describers, located ground in both commercial advertising offstage, offer concise descriptions of and not-for-profit arts administration. intense competition for what few dollars are available. There s sets, lighting, costumes and move­ is a vacuum of advocacy efforts on the state level.'' The The Milwaukee Foundation has signed mission of the group, she says, is to advocate for policies that ment via small earphones. All de­ on Karen Spahn, late of the late Mil­ scriptions are slipped in between dia­ waukee Artists Foundation, as a con­ strengthen the NEA, and for legislation and other forms of logue or song. Most theaters offer­ sultant to work with funders, arts groups support for the Wisconsin Arts Board, among other organi­ and individual artists on arts planning, zations. A more specific set of goals will be determined by the ing the service will also offer a "sen­ coordination and information distribu­ sory seminar" prior to the show in tion. She will also assists the Milwaukee group's board of directors, which had not been established at Foundation in staffing CAMPAC, the which patrons may walk on stage to press time. The group invites participation by artists, arts Milwaukee County Arts Advisory Council. touch costumes, props and obtain a administrators and others. For information, write: Arts Wis­ feel for the set. Sarah Ann Ford, a program officer with consin, P.O. Box 5156., Madison, WI 53705. the Milwaukee Foundation, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Wisconsin is one of fewer than 15 Arts Midwest.