Announcing 2017 Photo Contest “Why I Love Where I Live”
Every year, A-Town Get Down, Inc., encourages the use of photography as artistic expression. The contest begins in the fall and culminates in a gallery showing the week prior to the A-Town Get Down Art and Music Festival, as well as at the Festival itself. The contest...
2018 Helen Levitt Contest
Helen Levitt’s wonderfully candid black-and-white shots from the 1930s and 40s of urban kids playing and ordinary people going about their lives— as well as the wonderfully warm and humorous street theater in her dye-transfer color prints from the 60s through...Schools Find the Arts Keep Students in School
In Milwaukee, schools are finding the return of Arts funding has meant the return of students. After finding their budgets cut for years schools are now adding music and art teachers with the goal of boosting attendance and test scores....