The La Crosse Arts Board met on April 7, 2026, at approximately 2:30 PM. Commissioners Friedland and Black were excused. New member Alex Fowler was welcomed. The board approved previous meeting minutes, received updates on a name change and budget, and voted on a grant deadline extension.
Are you all good? Testing, can you hear us online? I think so. Yes, I can. Thank you. I think that's better. Thank you. She's gone. I think Jenny Jenny coming. Yes. Okay. She'll be doing it at home. She said she'd be here. Thank you. Okay. I'm assuming you just put it on. You we don't actually worry about that. Oh, okay. You don't do any of that part for our sounds good. Oh, you don't either? Yep. I thought I had to put them in here. So yeah, we pretty much just go through just the show jobs. I am calling to order this meeting of the Arts Board of the City of La Cross. It is April Seventh. I hope I have the day right. Um committee members are here with the exception of Commissioner Friedland and Black, and they are both excused. I can motion to approve the minutes. Okay. And a second by Mary Kate. And any discussion changes, deletions, discussion. And seeing none, all in favor of approval of the minutes. Or hands up. Okay. The mo the minutes are approved unanimously. Notices and discussion. Any commission members or staff? Any items. Yes, go ahead, Jackie. Well, I'll start with this flyer that somebody dropped off for Festival of Voices. It looks like it's in the a free event at English Lutheran Church. Um April 10th. So I'll leave these up here if anybody's interested in those. So Letty will be coming in two weeks. Everything's in order. She'll be spending, she'll be starting the mural. She arrives on the 26th of April and starting the mural that week. She will also be going to UWL and working with UWL students there, doing critiques with them as well as an artist talk. And I'll get all that information out to you guys in case you want to attend those activities. The artist talks over at UWL are usually pretty good.