Policy correspondence and subject files, 1964-1991.

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Policy correspondence and subject files, 1964-1991.

Records documenting the Wisconsin Arts Board's policies, mandates, and directives. Includes correspondence to and from the Executive Director, departmental staff policy correspondence, agendas, minutes, and supporting materials of national arts organizations on which the Executive Director is a member or sits; speeches and testimony; various committee and conference records, including the 1990 National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) in Milwaukee; files on legislative activities; and records on National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant awards.

2.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons); plusadditions of 1.0 c.f.

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Wisconsin Arts Board

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The Arts Board was created as a statutory agency by Chapter 90, Laws of 1973, and was subsequently attached to the Department of Administration (WIHV85-A694) by Chapter 333, Laws of 1973. 1995 Wisconsin Act 27 attached the Board to the Dept. of Tourism (WIHV90-A1094). The Board was preceded by a nonstatutory committee, the Governor's Council on the Arts, created in 1963. In 1965, the Governor's Council had merged with a private organization, the Wisconsin Arts Foundation and Council...