Ellen Rosewall

Assistant Professor of Communication and the Arts
Teaches courses in arts management and COA
M.F.A. University of Minnesota
Arts Management Information

Ellen Rosewall’s thirty years of experience in the arts industry makes her uniquely qualified to coordinate and teach the arts management program. Beginning her career as a singer, she taught voice and coordinated the vocal department at MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis before entering arts management full-time. She has been Executive Director of Schola Cantorum (Palo Alto, CA), Interim Director and Capital Campaign Manager of the Green Bay Botanical Garden, and Director of Marketing and Development at the Weidner Center. She has served on several boards of directors, and has been President of the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts and President of the Northeastern Wisconsin Arts Council.
Rosewall is known nationally as an arts management specialist and advocate for the arts. She has given presentations on arts management for Americans for the Arts, Michigan Assembly for Community Arts Agencies and the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts, and has been published in the Michigan ArtsLetter, the Voice of Chorus America and ArtsWire (New York Foundation for the Arts). She is in demand as a consultant, working with arts organizations in small and large communities on fund-raising, strategic planning and audience development. Some of her consulting clients have included Wisconsin Public Radio, Door Community Auditorium, Fairfield Art Museum, Wisconsin Choral Directors Association, Portage County Arts Alliance, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Fond du Lac Arts Council and Chequamegon Bay Arts Council. She is currently working with the Wisconsin Arts Board on a multi-year project that provides community arts development to new arts organizations in small communities, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rosewall also owns Art for Pete’s Sake!, a booking agency which represents classical, jazz and world musicians in Northeastern Wisconsin. She is the author of Sparkle Island: stories of love, life and Walloon Lake, which is published by Raven Tree Press and was nominated for the Great Lakes Book Award in 2000.
Rosewall is an active advocate for the arts at the local, state and national level. She was a member of the Joint Legislative Council’s Special Committee on Arts Funding, which drafted successful legislation to create an endowment for the arts in Wisconsin in 2001. As President of the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts, she presided over three Arts Advocacy Days at the state capitol, and is a member of the founding committee of Arts Action Wisconsin.

Contact Ellen Rosewall at rosewale@uwgb.edu or 920-465-2673.

Communication and the Arts
Arts Management Information