Arts

An old building in downtown Rhinelander is getting new life.The Hilgermann Center for Community is hosting its grand opening Friday.

ArtStart in Rhinelander is an Arts and Cultural center that has become a place where community and the arts may grow together and be cultivated.

Mary Burns is a Mercer based weaver and fiber artist who has been weaving for over 50 years and working on her recent ArtStart exhibit “Women and Water” since 2016.

Project North is returning to downtown Rhinelander September 20th and 21st.The two-day music, arts, and sustainability festival is put on by ArtStart and WXPR.

“Art Against the Odds: Wisconsin Prison Art defines art making as not only a creative pastime but a life-saving tool of self-definition for those who are removed from society,” opens the preface of the exhibition’s catalog

For more than a decade, the Antigo Visual Arts groups has been bringing public art to the City of Antigo.The organization now has a permanent home in the community.

Thriving art scenes help build thriving communities.It’s one of the driving concepts behind ArtStart and why the organization has been working so hard for several years to build an accessible, outdoor art space.That vision is becoming a reality thanks in part to a $42,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

An outdoor art installation in Land O’Lakes invites people to immerse themselves in music, visual arts, and nature.The sound garden created by director and composer JG Everest has returned for another year.As part of WXPR’s We Live Up Here, Katie Thoresen explains how this community art project encourages everyone to be an artist.

An outdoor art installation in Land O’Lakes invites people to immerse themselves in music, visual arts, and nature.The sound garden created by director and composer JG Everest has returned for another year.As part of WXPR’s We Live Up Here, Katie Thoresen explains how this community art project encourages everyone to be an artist.

Governor Evers’ nearly $104 billion state budget includes tax cuts for the middle class, a funding boost for education, and legalizing marijuana.It also includes increased funding for the Artistic Endowment Fund and the Wisconsin Arts Board.