Arts Insider Club

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February 2010 Newsletter

Recognize and reward the over 175 students who study and participate in music, theatre and art each year at Wisconsin Lutheran College by becoming a member of the newly formed Arts Insider Club. Membership is available to anyone who wishes to directly support the fine arts departments at WLC. Don’t miss this opportunity to financially assist visual and performing arts students while taking advantage of exclusive member benefits including tickets, newsletters and more.

In addition to the purchase of equipment and supplies, your gifts to the arts will help WLC students to:

Fund their education at WLC with art, music and theatre scholarships
Represent the college through band and choir performance tours throughout the U.S. and abroad
Attend collegiate theatre festivals and conferences
Participate in on-location artist immersion experiences

Wisconsin Lutheran College is thankful for the continued support of Friends of the Arts patrons. Created as a companion, the new Arts Insider Club will directly support students’ participation in the college’s academic fine arts programs. It is anticipated that there may be patrons who will be interested in participating in both groups.

Member Advantages

Benefits come as a tremendous opportunity at $50 for individuals, $75 for families and $2,500 for a lifetime membership.

Free annual admission vouchers to use toward WLC student music and theatre performances
- Individual membership includes ticket voucher for the individual to attend two WLC performances
- Family membership includes ticket vouchers for each family member in the household to attend two WLC performances
Invitations to student art exhibitions
Arts Insider Club newsletters
Band and choir CD discounts
Recognition on the Arts Insider Club display in the Center for Arts and Performance
(permanent name recognition for lifetime members)

Art

Students of WLC’s art program participate in the creative experience that develops their individual God-given skills of visual expression by working alongside gifted faculty, developing relationships with guest artists and visiting professionals, and experiencing distinctive museum trips and gallery tours. Art courses are designed to promote aesthetic literacy, visual thinking, creative expression and critical analysis. Students in the art program have traveled to destinations such as Italy, Costa Rica, Norway, Iceland, and the U.S. to create on location and gain new experiences that enrich their work. The program continues to prepare competent visual communicators for life and work in professional art fields and graduate school.

Music

WLC music students develop their talents, discover the science and artistry of making music, and learn to embrace music as a precious gift from God. Students can perform in vocal and instrumental ensembles, compose in a state-of-the-art music lab, visit with some of the world’s best touring musicians in master classes, travel and perform throughout the United States and Europe during annual concert tours, take private lessons from members of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and see internationally acclaimed musicians perform in the acoustically superb Schwan Concert Hall. Your support for the music program will help ensure that future generations of choral and instrumental students will enjoy the opportunity to bring their musical talents and passions – as well as their love of performance – to our campus and community.

Theatre

Students of Wisconsin Lutheran College’s theatre program are involved in all aspects of theatre – acting, directing, technical theatre and stage management. They work as a team to build a production from script to stage under the guidance of experienced faculty, and are able to become connected to Milwaukee’s thriving theatre community in the process. Theatre helps both the participant and the viewer better understand how and why other people think, feel, and behave as they do. Through the study of theatre, students also explore and learn numerous practical skills that are valued by employers and integral to numerous careers. Not only does the WLC theatre program strive to help students grow in their knowledge and craft of theatre, it also seeks to help them mature into men and women who will be assets in their home, workplace, church, community and nation. By supporting theatre at WLC, you are contributing to a domino effect that will benefit others, including yourself.

WLC Arts Highlights

Students traveled to Mesa Verde National Park Artist in Residence with Prof. Kristin Gjerdset in the fall of 2009.
Students Joel Hermanson and Amy Schneider had their designs chosen and on display in the summer of 2009 in Racine at the Racine Public Art Project.
Students Emily Goss, Sarah Tullberg and Rachel Learman had artworks selected at the Lakefront Festival of the Arts in June 2009.
The Wisconsin Lutheran Choir completed its 16th performance tour, most recently to England and Western Europe, and has toured throughout the Midwest and United States.
Nearly 15 percent of the WLC student body participates in a major choral ensemble, and tickets to the annual Christmas Choral Concert series are highly sought after.
The Wisconsin Lutheran College Concert Band has toured to California, Arizona, Toronto, Washington D.C., and many places in the Midwest.
The Wisconsin Lutheran College Concert Band was selected as the college/university representative to perform at the 2007 Wisconsin Convention of the National Band Association.
Both the Wisconsin Lutheran Choir and Concert Band will be releasing their latest CD in late 2009.
Student Jacqueline Gardner took second place in the Eugene O’Neill Critic’s Competition at the Midwest Regional American College Theatre Festival.
WLC’s production of “Anything Goes” was cited by theatre critic, Julie McHale of the Waukesha Freeman as a “standout” in terms of production excellence for the 2008 Milwaukee theatre season.
Linnéa Koeppel was accepted for a summer internship with Ten Chimneys Foundation in Genesee Depot. Ten Chimneys is the estate created by theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.