Katherine Steichen Rosing explores invisible forces in forests and watersheds through painting and immersive installations. She earned an MFA from Northern Illinois University, a BFA from the University of Colorado-Denver, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and abroad, including Tokyo, New York, and Chicago.
Nathaniel Stern is an awkward artist, teacher, and writer who likes awkward art, writing, and students. He holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor between Art+Design and Mechanical Engineering at UW-Milwaukee, and is an Associate Researcher at the University of Johannesburg. "I make art that amplifies how we relate to things, ourselves, and each other. I present what these relationships do, and mean for us, and are. Simple, awkward, funny, beautiful, generous, mean, and more.
April Stone is an Ojibwe Black Ash basket maker from the Bad River reservation in northern Wisconsin. She has been harvesting basket material from the swamps where the tree lives and making utilitarian baskets since 1999.
Christine Style is a full professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where she has been teaching for over twenty-five years. She received her MFA in printmaking from UW-Milwaukee and her undergraduate degree in art from UW-Madison. Christine maintains a studio in Green Bay and is actively involved with Wisconsin Visual Artists, the Print Forum at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Nek Chand Foundation.
Heather Swan is a poet, nonfiction writer, and teacher. Her nonfiction has appeared in Aeon, Belt, Catapult, Emergence, ISLE, Minding Nature, The Learned Pig, and Terrain. Her book Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press) won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.
Melanie Tallmadge Sainz is an artist in several media, including basketry, quillwork, and beadwork. She is Ho-Chunk and grew up in Wisconsin Dells, where her parents Roger and Bernadine Tallmadge owned and operated the Winnebago Indian Museum for many years. After a long career as an educator and artist in Arizona, Melanie returned to Wisconsin Dells to found Little Eagle Arts Foundation, or LEAF, and Native Presence Gallery and Learning Center.
Valaria Tatera is an installation artist, activist, and lecturer whose works investigates the intersection of ethnicity, gender, commerce, and the environment. An enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Tatera explores self-identity and contemporary Indigenous issues such as the impact of colonization on Indigenous erasure, visibility, and resilience. Her intention is for the work to hold visual and personal space for statistics that often erase the individual.
Alice Y Traore is a local, self-taught watercolor artist. Much of her work represents the challenges and triumphs of Black women as she attempts to capture the spirit of liberation, rejuvenation, celebration and sometimes simply rest. Alice rediscovered art during a period of physical healing. While she consistently produces new work, she most often turns to drawing and painting in times when she is most in need of emotional and mental well-being healing as well.
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
