Cheryal Lee Hills is the Executive Director of the Region Five Development Commission in Staples, Minnesota. Cheryal provides program development, program implementation, organizational planning, financial planning/oversight and…
Ashley Hanson interviews Dylan Locke at The Floyd Country Store in Flyd, VA (pop. 432) after participating in a Bluegrass Jam Session, which happens at the store every…
THE YEAR OF THE RURAL ARTS 2014 was a program of events, conversations, and online features celebrating the diverse, vital ways in which rural arts and humanities contribute…
Last week, we shared information about Art of the Rural collaborations that address both rural and urban communities alongside staff from the Rural Policy Research Institute and M12…
Art of the Rural is excited to participate in an upcoming webinar hosted by Community Matters and the Citizens’ Institute for Rural Design, alongside partners at M12 and RUPRI. Join us…
“Gard in Field” University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives, Used With Permission By Savannah Barrett Maryo Gard Ewell and the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation recently shared with Art…
The Jolly Flatboatmen, George Caleb Bingham Friends, the last few weeks have been packed with much work and projects, little of which has immediately manifested itself on the…
Photograph by Paul Newton, Rural Missouri By Matthew Fluharty Rachel Reynolds Luster, Founding Project Steward of Art of the Rural, has been in the news many times over…
Gard Foundation Mini-grant receipient: Cleveland Public Theatre’s Teen Step Program In 2010, in celebration of his 100th birthday, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin…
John Kinsman joining farmers and activists in Mali; via WhyHunger By Savannah Barrett At the suggestion of our partners at the Wormfarm Institute, today we remember the life and…
Wisconsin Local Arts Conference: November 29
National Arts Strategies Summit for Change: Sundance, Utah,November 12-15
Common Field: Los Angeles, November 2-5
Wyoming Arts Council 50th Summit: Lander, WY, November 2-4
Charting The American Bottom: Missouri History Center, October 26
Indiana Arts Homecoming: Indianapolis, October 5
