Will Pergl is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pergl received a MFA from Cornell University and a BFA from Southern Illinois University. His sculpture, video, and drawings have been shown in over twenty solo and thirty group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including a site-specific installation at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), the Tate Modern (London), and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
Stephen Perkins is an artist and independent art historian specializing in alternative artists’ periodicals and printed matter. He curates his home-based gallery, Subspace, from his extensive archive of artists’ printed matter and prints. Perkins’ own art practice is focused on printed matter, and the thoughtful, idiosyncratic assemblages he creates from his archive are recognized as artworks in their own right.
Since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1990, Barry Phipps has spent nearly three decades making art in the disciplines of music, fashion, and photography. After living in Chicago for more than twenty years, Phipps and his wife relocated to the comparatively small town of Iowa City. Over the next four years he took countless road trips and shot hundreds of rolls of film.
Yvette M. Pino earned her BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received a Certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities Curatorial Fellow for the 2019 National Veteran Art Museum Triennial and Veteran Art Summit.
Gabriel Pionkowski is a visual artist living in Madison. He earned his MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in Art Education from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, after studying in Italy at the Florence University of the Arts. Pionkowski has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Millay Colony of the Arts in Austerlitz, New York.
JoAnna Poehlmann's art is a rare combination of superb draftsmanship, meticulous observation, droll humor, and effusive joy. Her graphite drawings, watercolor paintings, and multimedia collage drawings, hand-colored lithographs and etchings, and limited edition books are infused with a deep appreciation of art, literature, and the natural world.
Anne Pryor is a folklorist who specializes in the traditional cultures of Wisconsin. She holds degrees in Education and Cultural Anthropology. Pryor served as a folklorist on staff with the Wisconsin Arts Board from 1996 to 2016, where she coordinated the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Woodland Indian Arts Initiative. She enjoys living close to the Yahara River with her husband Steve.
Beth Racette is an artist who works in many media: acrylic ink paintings, sculpture and installation. While her installation work often integrates political and social concerns, Racette's paintings are meditative and improvisational explorations of mind and metaphysical concepts. She describes them this way: "My paintings are an observation of the flow and interconnection of history, biology, contagions, and communication.
Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
Phone: 608.733.6633
James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25
