Professional Opportunities in the Arts
Professional Opportunities in the Arts: A Panel of Writers, Editors, and Money-Makers
December 3rd – 5:15 – 7pm in the 1965 room in the University Union
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Panelists include:
Professor Tara DaPra - discussing opportunities in publishing and editing nonfiction
Professor Ellen Rosewall - discussing opportunities in the arts management arena for both visual and writing arts
Professor Chuck Rybak – discussing opportunities in publishing and editing poetry
Professor Kim Nielsen – discussing the process of getting involved in publishing a book involving a great deal of research
Panelist Bios:
Tara DaPra has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she served as the Managing Editor of the literary magazine Dislocate. She was an intern at the now-defunct Minneapolis magazine The Rake and worked a proofreader at the University of Minnesota Press. Feathers in her cap include a Gesell Award for excellence in poetry and a Walter H. Judd Fellowship for creative research in Ireland. She teaches composition part time at UWGB and would love to get some health benefits. Her MFA thesis, “What to do After Your Boyfriend Commits Suicide” is yellowing in her desk drawer as she thinks about looking for an agent.
Ellen Rosewall’s thirty years of experience in the arts industry makes her uniquely qualified tocoordinate and teach the Arts Management program. Rosewall taught voice at MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis and had an active career as a freelance singer, actor and pianist in the Twin Cities before entering arts management full-time in 1989. She has been Executive Director of Schola Cantorum (Palo Alto, CA), Interim Director and Capital Campaign Manager of the Green Bay Botanical Garden, and Director of Marketing and Development at the Weidner Center. She has served on several boards of directors, and is currently president of the Wisconsin Public Radio Association and serves on several nonprofit arts organization boards in Northeastern Wisconsin. Rosewall is known nationally as an arts management specialist and advocate for the arts, and an active advocate for the arts at the local, state and national level. She was a member of the Joint Legislative Council’s Special Committee on Arts Funding, which drafted successful legislation to create an endowment for the arts in Wisconsin in 2001. As President of the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts, she presided over three Arts Advocacy Days at the state capitol, and is a member of the founding committee of Arts Action Wisconsin and a charter member of the Arts Action Network.
Kim Nielsen has been a Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since January 1999. Her scholarship has centered on historical questions and debates about who is fit to participate in civic life. Her newest book is Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon Press). Her earlier book, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (New York University Press), has just been released in paperback. NYUP also published her edited collection Helen Keller: Selected Writings. Recently, she collaborated on the exciting new 3 volume Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Facts on File).
Chuck Rybak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati in 2003. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in: The Fourth River, The Ledge, Pebble Lake Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His collections of poetry include Nickel and Diming My Way Through, Liketown, and Tongue and Groove. Chuck is a Professor of English for the University of Wisconsin Colleges-Fox Valley, and the current editor of Fox Cry Review, a national literary journal.