LaMoine MacLaughlin is co-founder and Executive Director of the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts and the Northern Lakes School of the Arts located in northwestern Wisconsin. For the past thirty years, Mr. MacLaughlin has been very active in the development of community arts activities in rural areas, and since 2006, he has developed and directed the Rural Arts Management (RAM) Institute, a training program for rural arts administrators. In 1996, he and his wife, Mary Ellen, received the Wisconsin Governor's Award in Support of the Arts, and in 1999, the Rural Genius Award from the Front Porch Institute.