Year of the Arts celebrates PSOA’s 50th anniversary

By Beth Stafford
September 17, 2012
UWM News

The 50^th anniversary of the Peck School of the Arts (PSOA) has inspired the Year of the Arts. From September 2012 through August 2013, the celebration will recognize the PSOA’s influence in the Wisconsin arts community and the impact that the arts have in every discipline and every walk of life.

For five decades, the PSOA has educated, trained and nurtured thousands of artists and art educators in every arts discipline – art & design, dance, film, music and theatre.

Since summer 2010, a core planning team has been developing plans, gathering ideas and creating collaborations for the Year of the Arts. Team members from the PSOA are Scott Emmons, interim dean; Diane Grace, director of development; Ellen Friebert Schupper, director of marketing and community relations; and Susan Mendelson, Year of the Arts manager. Members from other campus units are Patrick Kessenich, director, Major and Planned Gifts and chief operations officer, and Laura Glawe, director of University Communications and Media Relations.

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