I'm Joanne Jardine.

I am a local photographer.

And I am the president fo Superior Council for the Arts.

Today is a regional creative industry summit.

And this is where we talk about the economic impact the arts can have on the community.

We're connecting businesspeople with city officials and government people with artists.

And it's just a tim where everybody can connect to and network and come up with some ideas of how we can work together with the local businesses and restaurants.

It's a little bit of everybody today.

So it's not just all artists.

This event happened two years ago and it was really great.

And we just we wanted t build it up a little bit bigger.

And I think it's very important.

So we have Creat Wisconsin is here from Madison and thats the umbrella art organization and they're here.

And Superiors kind of a burned up like island in Wisconsin.

And and bringing people up from Madison to show them what we have is really important.

And, to everybody, meet each other an see how we can help each other.

Slice from PBS North.