{"id":1982,"date":"2009-07-12T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T11:22:47","slug":"thirdcoast-digest-shuffling-priorities-how-marn-is-pushing-art-to-the-top-of-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/thirdcoast-digest-shuffling-priorities-how-marn-is-pushing-art-to-the-top-of-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"ThirdCoast Digest &#8211; Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow missed this story earlier in the week:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thirdcoastdigest.com\/2009\/07\/shuffling-priorities-how-marn-is-pushing-art-to-the-top-of-the-list\/\">ThirdCoast Digest &#8211; Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List<\/a><br \/>\nShuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">July 7th, 2009 by Erin Petersen<br \/>\nPosted in Arts &amp; Culture, VITAL, VITAL Features, Visual Art<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When  the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network MARN named Melissa Musante as its first full-time Executive Director last February, our interest here at TCD was piqued. Musante came to MARN with an impressive resume including several years as  Associate Director at Film Wisconsin; prior to that, she was the National Outreach Sales Manager for Utrecht Art Supplies from 2003-2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Musante had been active with MARN as a visual artist before assuming the role of ED and has been showing her work both as a painter and an independent filmmaker in the Milwaukee area for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Under the direction of former ED Mike Brenner and Interim Director Melissa Dorn Richards, MARN was able to provide some of the most innovative resources for artists, and both leaders played pivotal roles in helping Milwaukee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arts scene grow exponentially. Since its founding in 2000, MARN has been able to operate as a network&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thirdcoastdigest.com\/2009\/07\/shuffling-priorities-how-marn-is-pushing-art-to-the-top-of-the-list\/\">Read more&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow missed this story earlier in the week: ThirdCoast Digest &#8211; Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List Shuffling Priorities: How MARN is Pushing Art to the Top of The List July 7th, 2009 by Erin Petersen Posted in Arts &amp; Culture, VITAL, VITAL Features, Visual Art When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,35,38,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-inbox","category-milwaukee-art","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-stimulus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-vY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2041,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/passing-between-nathaniel-stern-and-jessica-meuninck-ganger-at-gallery-aop-johannesburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1982,"position":0},"title":"Passing Between: Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger at Gallery AOP, Johannesburg","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"GALLERY AOP (Art on Paper) presents Passing Between A collaboration incorporating traditional printmaking and contemporary digital, video and networked art by Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger 30 January \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 27 February 2010 Opening\u00c2\u00a0Saturday\u00c2\u00a030 January from 12:00 to 16:00 Opening address by Prof. Christo Doherty, Wits Digital Arts, at 12:30 The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Kinnickinnic, 2009, lithograph + LCD with video, 255 x 355 x 50mm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4201390174_0a9b048b9f.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1962,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/04\/snapmilwaukee\/","url_meta":{"origin":1982,"position":1},"title":"SnapMilwaukee","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 June 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Art City: Billed as a \"haven for our community's many voices,\" a critical arts journal called SNAPMilwaukee will launch Thursday. 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