What does the Lincoln Arts Council do that is most meaningful to you?

Are you involved with us in the way you would like?

Could you see yourself being more involved or perhaps involved in a new way?

The great strength - and a constant challenge - of being an organization in service to our community is making sure we provide opportunities for all interested persons to contribute to our common goal: to inspire and facilitate the arts among us. Your input is invaluable to us whether it comes as volunteer time, membership, sponsorship of events or sustaining financial gifts. As we move from fall into winter and transition from 2012 to 2013, please consider making a donation to your arts council. You are just the neighbor we want to connect with!

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We live in a city with a rich and vibrant art scene. Everyone who reads our newsletter knows artists who make art, buyers who collect it, and sustainers who keep the arts visible. Now it's time to call out the best and recognize them for their contributions. 

We are accepting nominations through January 14 for the 2013 Mayor's Arts Awards, with a banquet and awards ceremony to be held next June at the Lied Center. Instructions, award details, and a list of past recipients are available for easy download here, or call (402) 434-2787 and have us send you one. Nominating is easy, fast and a chance to recognize those who really make a difference. Help us find the best of the best for 2013.

The Lincoln Arts Council (LAC) is announcing that we will be accepting funding requests for Project Grants beginning on January 1, 2013. LAC Project Grants are available to 501(c)3 arts organizations who are members of the Lincoln Arts Council. Arts organizations will receive a mailing outlining LAC membership details in early January.  Qualifying arts organizations can request $500 in support for projects occurring between March 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013.

The process for submitting requests has been simplified, with a proposal due date of February 1, 2013.

Funding for the LAC Project Grants is possible thanks to a generous gift from an endowment established by the estate of Kenneth J. Good. We offer our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Good for his generosity and vision for a future filled with beauty.

Additional funding was made possible thanks to the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce which donated the 4th of July signs to the Lincoln Arts Council for auction.  The September auction raised $1,118.50. 

Woods Charitable Fund's 2011 Annual Report is now available online! It features a profile of recent grantee Flatwater Shakespeare Company, WCF's 2011 grants listing and other grant-making information. Click here to review the report.

Woods Charitable Fund's Board of Directors approved grants totaling $505,000 to 18 tax-exempt organizations during its final grant cycle of 2012. Please click here to see a full list of the award recipients.

The Lincoln Arts Council's AmeriCorps member, Mollie Magnuson, is proud to announce the approval of funding, from the Nebraska Arts Council, for an Artists in Schools and Communities Residency Program Sponsor Grant.  The grant will support local glass artist, Carrie Strope, to do a 28 hour residency at Clinton Elementary School during the second week in December 2012.

This one week residency with Carrie Strope will take place at Clinton Elementary School starting on December 10, 2012.  Carrie will be introducing the basic history and process of glass fusing to 6 classes of students in grades K through 5. Each student will design and handcraft a 4"x4" glass square that will be put into a collaborative class quilt. The 6 class quilts will be hung in Clinton Elementary as a permanent installation.

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"I am thrilled to join the team at Lincoln Arts Council and lend my administrative, promotion and networking strengths to the effort. Our lives are made rich by our interaction with creativity in all its forms. There is no finer way to gain insight to ourselves or to each other than through the expression of our highest and best selves when we are creating."

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When we learned of the Americans For the Arts project "Creative Conversations" we thought it was a great idea. Why not invite the arts community to talk about its successes and challenges in a forum where we can listen-in and guide our advocacy? And why not informally link it to NET Radio's Friday Live From the Mill, where the arts community already gathers?

At the first two events in October it was clear that you agree that its a great idea. We started with 60-70 people for the first two "events," and have settled in with 12-15 people in a lively conversation most Fridays. Public art, Pershing Center, First Fridays, the intersection of science and art, the arts economic impact study, and many specific events are just a tiny fraction of the topics we've discussed. As you might imagine, there's a lot more to discuss. Since we're sure that YOU have much to contribute, please join us at the Haymarket Mill on Fridays from 8:30am to 10:00am and share your thoughts. Coffee and conversation with interesting, engaged people- what's not to love? 

The third annual Craftacular at The Cornhusker Hotel on Wednesday, November 28 had yet another successful handmade holiday sale! Over 900 people from the Lincoln community experienced this delightful handmade market in which 50+ local artists were selling their handmade gifts.

A huge thank you to Jen Landis and Jackie Ostrowicki, founder and co-founder of Craftacular, for providing Lincoln with this unique handmade market and for allowing the Lincoln Arts Council to take a part in it! Last, but not least, we would like to thank the people from our community, who came out to support our local artists and especially to those who purchased raffle tickets, helping raise over $450 to which $100 will support continued arts education and programming for the Lincoln Arts Council.

The holidays are among us and so it is time to start thinking about the gift of giving! Nothing says you care more than a gift that is HANDMADE! Here are a couple of simple and fun handmade gift making ideas to make and give to your loved ones this holiday season!

Handmade Felt Bookmarks 

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Printed Fabric Wall Art  

• UNL Jazz Orchestra and Big Band
  UNL School of Music 

• Wind Ensemble
  UNL School of Music 

• NWU Jazz Ensemble Concert
  NWU Jazz Ensemble 

• UNL Symphony Orchestra
  UNL School of Music 

• The Complete Works of Christmas (Abridged)
  Nebraska Wesleyan University 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts
  International Quilt Study Center & Museum 

• Creative Conversations and you
  Lincoln Arts Council 

• Chamber Singers
  UNL School of Music 

• Lincoln Boys Choir at Holidays in the Haymarket
  Lincoln Boys Choir 

• Musical Theatre Showcase
  UNL School of Music 

• Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights Concert
  UNL School of Music 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Burkholder Project
  The Burkholder Project 

• NWU Elizabethan Feast
  Nebraska Wesleyan University 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Symphonic Band
  UNL School of Music 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Big Red Singers & Vocal Jazz Ensembles
  UNL School of Music 

• A Nebraska Brass Christmas
  Nebraska Brass 

• It's A Wonderful Life
  The Haymarket Theatre 

• The Complete Works of Christmas (Abridged)
  Nebraska Wesleyan University 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Creative Conversations and you
  Lincoln Arts Council 

• Lincoln Boys Choir at Holidays in the Haymarket
  Lincoln Boys Choir 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Burkholder Project
  The Burkholder Project 

• Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
  Abendmusik 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Joy! Joy! A Holiday Celebration
  Lincoln Choral Artists 

• Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
  Abendmusik 

• Lincoln Boys Choir Holiday Performance
  Lincoln Boys Choir 

• It's A Wonderful Life
  The Haymarket Theatre 

• High Intensity
  Nebraska Jazz Orchestra 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Creative Conversations and you
  Lincoln Arts Council 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Burkholder Project
  The Burkholder Project 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• A Cornhusker Christmas
  TADA Productions, Inc. 

• Creative Conversations and you
  Lincoln Arts Council 

• Last Blast with The Plymouth Brass!
  Abendmusik 

Don't see your art organization's event here?  That's because we need a profile created on our website, ArtScene.org.  Fill out a bio, add events to our calendar by the 25th of this month, and get your contributions to Lincoln's art scene noticed! Call us at 402-434-2787 and we'll help you get started.