Drawing upon aspects of photography, sculpture, assemblage, and text, Lewis Koch calls attention to the often unremarked elements of everyday life. Over the past thirty-five years, his work has been shown in garages, on kiosks and billboards as well as in museums and galleries, with solo exhibitions in New York, London, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Lyn Korenic is the director of the Kohler Art Library at the UW-Madison. In support of its notable Artist’s Book Collection, she curates exhibitions, acquires new material, and provides instruction to campus and community users. In 2014, Gaylord Schanilec gave the 2nd Annual Bernstein Books Arts Lecture, hosted by the library.
Andy Kraushaar is a photographer and collector of vernacular photographs living in Madison. He works primarily with cyanotype and gum bichromate. Kraushaar was Visual Materials Curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society from 2001-2018.
Mark Kraushaar has worked as a high school English teacher in Vermont, a pipe welder in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a motel clerk in Boston, a shoe factory worker in London, a wig salesman in Kentucky, and most recently as an RN in Madison. He has recent work forthcoming in New Ohio Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Mudfish, and Yale Review.
Heidi Lasher-Oakes was originally trained in sculpture and taught art at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1997-2000. She has been challenged by a multi-system neurological illness, one of the first symptoms of which was vision loss. She now retains about 30% of her vision. She received training in Braille and Orientationa and Mobility from the National Federation for the Blind in 2002.
Matthew Warren Lee is a Wisconsin-born oil painter and draftsman. He received his MFA from UW-Milwaukee in 2014, and lives and works in Milwaukee. Much of Lee’s work is rooted in his experience as a member of the United States Antarctic Program, where he worked in science support from 2008-2010. This included a 13-month stay at the Geographic South Pole for Antarctic winter, where he learned field medicine and taught watercolor classes to scientists and support personnel.
David Lenz's paintings—whether of African American children in Milwaukee or a Sauk County dairy-farm family—explore the particular circumstances of individuals in their respective environments. His paintings, replete with breathtaking skill and warm humanity, have been described as unflinching in their detail and realism. Working out of his studio in Shorewood, Lenz has built a reputation as a first-rank realist painter whose work is exhibited frequently in museums around Wisconsin.
Michael Lesy received a B.A. in theoretical sociology from Columbia University, an M.A. in American social history from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in American cultural history from Rutgers University. He has published twelve books of history, biography, and narrative nonfiction. Many of his books have been based on historic photographs, gathered in archives; several have been based on oral histories, gathered during fieldwork.
Wisconsin Academy Offices
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James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
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