Andy Adams is an independent producer and publisher whose work explores current ideas in visual culture. He directs FlakPhoto Projects, a digital/arts lab focused on promoting photography in all of its forms. Find him on Instagram @FlakPhoto.
Terese Agnew began her art career as a public sculptor. Her early work included huge temporary installations that engaged hundreds of people in the art making process. In 1991 Agnew began making art quilts in addition to sculpture. Her quilts are intricately detailed; Practice Bomber Range in the Mississippi Flyway for example, is entirely embroidered with up to fourteen layers of hand guided machine stitching.
Todd Anderson was born in Rochester, Minnesota. Anderson received a BFA from UW-Madison and an MFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Over the course of several years, he apprenticed and eventually became a fine art collaborative printer. Today Anderson is a professor of printmaking at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Jennifer Angus is a professor in the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin -Madison where she teaches textile design, specifically, everything to do with the dyeing and printing of cloth, including natural dyes. She is an artist recently described by Art Daily as “one of the top contemporary installation artists in the country.” Jennifer creates some of the most provocative work most people have ever seen in an art museum setting.
Born in northern Minnesota, Gwen Avant has been drawn to quiet mark-making her entire life. She earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has exhibited her paintings, sculptures and installations in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York, and has her work in many private and corporate collections. Gwen drove to Madison, WI in 1979, and has more or less made it her home.
Amal Azzam is a daughter of Palestinian refugees, a Muslim woman, and first-generation American living in the Midwest. Her work reflects the layers of trauma, freedom and misconceptions she carries within her identity. She invites the viewer with the use of playful colors, a predominant use of pink, and abstracted shapes. Azzam also experiments with wearables, found objects, and performance photography to express her ideas on the inner struggles of her identity.
Brenda Baker is an artist, mother, and educator. Brenda earned an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison, a BA from DePaul University, and studied at both the Austro-American Institute in Vienna, Austria and Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest, Hungary. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an NEA grant in sculpture, an Arts Midwest fellowship, and several Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison Arts Commission and Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission grants.
Lisa Marie Barber (Kenosha) earned her BS in Sociology/Art minor at Northern Arizona University and MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
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