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VSA arts of Wisconsin receives Partnership Award

VSA arts of Wisconsin is one of several regional and statewide arts service organizations to receive the newly created Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB) Partnership Award. These strategic partnerships are designed to further both the mission of the Arts Board and those of the partner organizations.

The WAB is a state agency with a fiscal year 2008 budget of $2,470,200 appropriated by the state legislature and $651,700 from its National Endowment for the Arts partnership grant. With this investment of public funds, the WAB helps Wisconsin's nonprofit arts and culture sector generate more than $418 million at the local level. Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture sector provides a 7:1 return on this kind of public investment.

The WAB is the state agency that nurtures creativity, cultivates expression, promotes the arts, supports the arts in education, stimulates community and economic development and serves a sa resource for people of every culture and heritage in Wisconsin's communities. the WAB's grants to arts and community organizations help make every culture and heritage in Wisconsin's communities. The WAB's grants to arts and community oganizations help make programs vailable to broad audiences, keep ticket prices down and allow groups to undertake innovative programming.

The WAB also supports programs that bring artists into classrooms. Studies show that when the arts are a significant part of a child's education and are used to help teach humanities, science and other curricula, cognitive and work skills are enhanced, creative and critical thinking skills develop, truancy is reduced and self-esteem increases. Toward that end, the WAB also supports the efforts of cultural organizations to work with school districts to implement the model arts standards from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Wisconsin is home to thousands of artists who are vital to the state's cultural richness. The WAB is committed to supporting their creative talent. Artists who receive grants participate in public presentations to the public can see the results of its investment firsthand.

The WAB also supports local arts councils in cities and towns across Wisconsin. These local councils present programs in their communities ranging from festivals, exhibitions and performances to educational programs for adults and children, and in some cases run their own arts granting programs.

Thanks to the state's investment, cultural resources like VSA arts of Wisconsin are integral to the quality of life in Wisconsin.

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