Bird Ross’ art practice revolves around an ongoing study of how divergent materials can be the perfect companions in resolving obstacles. Along with Brenda Baker, Bird founded the Women Artists Forward Fund and the Forward Art Prize in 2018.
Rafael Francisco Salas is a Wisconsin-based artist. He combines landscape, the legacy of portraiture, architecture, and country music into artwork that evokes a strange, rural poetry.
Maggie Sasso produces conceptual bodies of work that express macrocosmic ideas through microcosmic detail, examines the role of material culture in relationship to our collective past. Sasso received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and her BFA from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky where she was born and raised. She works at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design as the Textiles Lab Technician and an adjunct lecturer.
Rae Senarighi is a champion of storytelling through art, as a fine artist, designer and muralist, an activist, cancer survivor and pursuing accurate and celebratory representation of the trans community. Rae currently resides in Madison, WI, but he makes a lasting impact throughout the world. His art can be seen internationally and is featured in a wide range of outlets from Art Voices magazine to DNA India.
Levi Sherman is an interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing a PhD in Art History at University of Wisconsin—Madison. He received his MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago in 2015.
Ann Sinfield has lived, studied, and worked in California and the Midwest. Holding a BA from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and a MA in the History of Art and a MS in Information from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she is also a graduate of the Museum Leadership Institute's NextGen program.
Moselle Singh is an artist with a background in agroecology and biodiversity conservation. She holds a BA in anthropology and MSc in ethnobotany, and is interested in the ways art and science are expressed through culture as an iterative process of sensing and making sense of the world. She has worked at various nonprofit organizations and small organic farms across the Midwest, as well as Nicaragua and India.
Kate Stalker is a Madison-based landscape architect with a passion for environmental sustainability, especially as it concerns promoting a public supply of clean water for generations to come.
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