Seein’ is Believin’: “Feeding Our Bodies, Feeding Our Souls: The Mother’s Mental Health Moment”

🌟 Join Us for an Important Community Event 🌟

Hey everyone,

We’re excited to invite you to “Feeding Our Bodies, Feeding Our Souls: The Mother’s Mental Health Moment,” hosted by Seein’ is Believin’. 📅

Save the date for September 22nd, 2023, from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at MyArts, 1055 East Mifflin in Madison, Wisconsin.

🔗 REGISTER HERE: [https://bit.ly/3Z8QVbv]

🔹 Why This Event is Crucial 🔹

Recent tragedies, including a devastating mother-daughter murder-suicide and the loss of a teen from our community, make this event more important than ever. We aim to empower mothers and youth with mental health tools and community support.

🔸 Event Details 🔸

🎤 Moderated by Prenicia Clifton and featuring incredible speakers like Ruby Clay, Angela Hopgood, Qiana Holmes, and Brandi Grayson. Topics will cover building mental resilience, destigmatizing mental health, and more.

🌟 Special Features 🌟

🍲 Soul Food dinner provided

👶 Childcare provided

💵 $25 stipend for the first 100 moms

🚨 Spots are limited! 🚨

🆓 The event is FREE!

Don’t miss out! Secure your spot by registering today. Your participation is vital to making this event a success and supporting the well-being of mothers and youth in our community. Feel free to share the event and registration link with anyone who could benefit.

#SeeinIsBelievin #MaternalMentalHealth #CommunitySupport #MentalHealthAwareness

UW-Madison Division of the Arts Celebrates 25th Year of Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program, Opens “IARP at 25” Call for Proposals for 2024–2025 Academic Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2023

Media Contact: residency@arts.wisc.edu

URL: artsresidency.wisc.edu/propose/ 

Link to article: https://artsdivision.wisc.edu/2023/09/12/iarp-at-25-call/ 

Division of the Arts Celebrates 25th Year of Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program, Opens “IARP at 25” Call for Proposals for 2024–2025 Academic Year

Madison, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts has opened the call for proposals for the 2024–25 cycle of its Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP), commemorating its 25th year. Since 1999, when the Division of the Arts (then Arts Institute) welcomed artist Nick Cave to Madison, the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program has hosted 51 residencies involving 55 artists-in-residence and more than140 guest artists from 20 different countries, engaging over 50 university units and over 40 community organizations.

The IARP at 25 call for proposals asks artists, faculty, and staff to envision the full potential of an interdisciplinary arts residency by expanding artistic and academic inquiry, cultivating new partnerships with campus and community arts entities, and engaging innovative and diverse visiting artists. The call for proposals is open for semester-long and one academic year-long residencies.

IARP at 25 commemorates the diversity of artists and the expertise they have brought to the university — from curators to choreographers, costume designers to cartoonists, environmental filmmakers to experimental theatre artists, architects to activists — that has opened opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations and strengthened programmatic ties among individual departments, programs and other campus and community arts entities.

IARP provides students with extended, intimate and high-impact learning experiences with a working artist, including options to earn course credit. In 25 years, interdisciplinary artists-in-residence, including notable artists Rhodessa Jones (2014), Marc Bamuthi Joseph (2007) and Pauline Oliveros (2001), have taught 53 interdisciplinary courses, enrolling 429 students. The diversity of course offerings facilitates scholarship and knowledge-building in interdisciplinary practices and in understanding alternative perspectives. 

All residencies center on interdisciplinary arts, recognizing that interdisciplinarity can break down barriers and silos, advance intellectual artistic diversity and give opportunities to people who do not fit into the traditional modes of inquiry and practice. Residencies often extend connections with faculty, the university and the Madison community. For example, artists-in-residence Faisal Abdu’Allah (2013) and Lynda Barry (2012) now hold faculty appointments at UW–Madison. 

The 2024–25 academic year will also culminate with the final year of the “Arts for Everyone, Everywhere” Interdisciplinary Arts Outreach Initiative, a three-year project of the Division of the Arts. Funded by the Baldwin Idea Grant,the project builds on the legacy of the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program and its potential reach and impact across the state of Wisconsin.

Complete and share your proposal for IARP at 25 by Monday, November 20, 2023 at noon CT. 

Visit artsresidency.wisc.edu/propose for more information on the proposal process.

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About the Presenter:

The Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program brings innovative, world-class artists to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, providing students with extended learning experiences with a working artist, increasing diversity of teaching staff on campus and strengthening programmatic ties among individual departments, programs and other campus and community arts entities. Since 1999, the program has hosted 51 residencies involving 55 artists-in-residence and more than 140 guest artists from 20 different countries, engaging over 50 university units and more than 40 community organizations. All residencies center interdisciplinary arts, recognizing that interdisciplinarity can break down barriers and silos, advance intellectual artistic diversity and give opportunities to people who do not fit into the traditional modes of inquiry and practice (see the Division of the Arts’ guiding principle of The Arts for Everyone, Everywhere). The program often brings together artists, faculty, staff and students from various disciplines across the arts, sciences and humanities, sustaining the Division of the Arts’ mission tounify and catalyze the arts at UW–Madison.

Summit Credit Union and StartingBlock Partner to launch 1-Year Fellowship for Women Entrepreneurs

APPLY TODAY

We’re thrilled to announce that StartingBlock has partnered with Summit Credit Union to offer a 1-Year Fellowship for Women Entrepreneurs.

• Applications are open through October 9th
• Residence begins – Nov 1st 
• Companies must be based in W

PROGRAM BENEFITS

• 1 year membership to StartingBlock (24×7 access)
• Access to StartingBlock member benefits, including 90% discount on Hubspot CRM
• Regular access to Summit Credit Union Executives and StartingBlock staff and connections to their network of mentors and experts
• Milestone based coaching focused on the following elements
  • Team
  • Problem and Vision
  • Value Proposition
  • Product
  • Market
  • Business Model
  • Scale, and
  • Investors/Access to Capital

LOCATION

StartingBlock, 821 East Washington, Madison

IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Is willing to commit full-time to her business
• Has the desire to scale her business
• Has a business model that is scalable
• Has not raised institutional capital
• Can benefit from StartingBlock coaching and from access to Summit Credit Union executives
• Lives in South Central Wisconsin and can readily access StartingBlock in downtown Madison
• Is organized as a for profit, not for profit or a benefit corporation

MORE INFORMATION 

More details are available on our website at startingblockmadison.org. Contact the StartingBlock Program staff with questions or to learn more: programs@startingblockmadison.org.

New Chief Information and Digital Officer hired at WPS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
DeAnne Boegli
Vice President of Communications
608-512-5754
deanne.boegli@wpsic.com

New Chief Information and Digital Officer hired at WPS
Bruce Gray joins leadership team

MADISON, Wis.—Sept. 11, 2023—Bruce Gray has been selected as the new WPS Health Solutions Chief Information and Digital Officer. Gray is an accomplished leader with experience building high-performance teams that deliver bottom-line results. He has experience in IT strategy, program management, system architecture and design, application development, and security.

At WPS, Gray will oversee more than 270 employees from a variety of IT teams. “I am thrilled to be joining the WPS leadership team. The strong cultural fit and incredible opportunity to lead WPS technology in the next stage of growth is very exciting,” Gray said.

Gray comes to WPS from Health Information and Management Systems Society, or HIMSS, where he was the Chief Information Officer. He has also worked for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas; United Health Group; and Prudential Financial, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration degree from State University of New York at Buffalo.

“I am excited to add Bruce to our leadership team,” President and CEO Wendy Perkins said. “He has the experience and character WPS needs to move forward and thrive.”

About WPS Health Solutions^®

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS Health Solutions), founded in 1946, is a nationally regarded benefits administrator for a variety of U.S. government programs and a leading not-for-profit health insurer in Wisconsin. WPS Health Solutions serves active-duty and retired military personnel, seniors, individuals, and families in Wisconsin, across the U.S., and around the world. WPS Health Solutions, headquartered in Madison, Wis., has more than 2,800 employees. Within the enterprise, there are three divisions: WPS Government Health Administrators, WPS Military and Veterans Health, and WPS Health Insurance/WPS Health Plan/EPIC Specialty Benefits. For more information, please visit wpshealthsolutions.com.

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Adams Outdoor Advertising Announces Opening of 2024 Adams Collaborate Program

We’re back at it again! For the past eight years, Adams Outdoor Advertising has run the Adams Collaborate Public Service Advertising Program for local non-profits. We designed the program to offer support to our community by partnering with local non-profit organizations, creating an outdoor advertising campaign – free of charge.

The application for the 2024 Adams Collaborate Program is now open!

See the full application here

See the program website here