Summer Arts Festival ends four-year run

By Scott Rosen
July 30, 2003

After a four-year run, the College of Arts and Sciences announced that the Summer Arts Festival will not be back in 2004.

 The event, founded in 1999 by UW dance professor Hannah Wiley, will be discontinued due to budget constraints in the College of Arts and Sciences. The college was faced with either offering fewer classes or discontinuing the festival, according to Michael Halleran, divisional dean for arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Risa Morgan, the festival's only full-time employee, said the festival had an average yearly budget of about $400,000, and estimated that the College of Arts and Sciences paid about half that annually.

Wiley, the director of the festival since its inception, will be returning to full-time teaching in the fall. Morgan will work through September to wrap up the festival. She hopes to find another job on campus after the festival's end, though she doesn't know where yet.

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