Clarissa Bonet grew up in Florida. In 2000, she moved to Chicago and was struck by her newfound environment. To understand this new landscape and her role within it, she started making images, which led to two ongoing bodies of work, Stray Light and City Space.
Borealis (they/them/beau/bo) is a social artist, writer, and educator whose transdisciplinary practice is centered on the queer art of care. Find more from Beau at www.beaux.studio.
Craig Brabant is the Curator of the Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (WIRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The WIRC houses over 3 million curated and another 5 million+ uncurated specimens. When he is not working in the collection, Craig pursues his own research on velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), a fascinating and diverse group of wasps.
Cynthia Brinich-Langlois grew up in Bethel, Alaska. She completed undergraduate studies at Kenyon College in studio art and environmental biology, and received an MFA at the University of New Mexico in printmaking, where she also participated in Land Arts of the American West and the Tamarind Institute’s Collaborative Lithography program. She currently teaches printmaking and digital art as a Lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
I focus on abstract painting informed by ordinary, everyday visual information. Twelve years of painting abstractly provides me with a fertile working territory. The major concentration in this body of work is the development of an idiosyncratic, abstract visual language. My original fascination in ideograms transitioned into a more automatic, abstract painting vocabulary. These paintings involve the investigation of three specific properties: drawing, structure, and color.
Born in Sterling, Colorado in 1933, Burkert moved to Wisconsin with her family in 1945. She married Robert Burkert, a professor of Fine Art at UWM, and has two children, Claire and Rand.
Mary Burns (Mercer) is an award-winning fiber artist and master weaver. Mary’s Ancestral Women exhibition features woven portraits of an elder from each of Wisconsin’s twelve Native tribes along with twelve complementary weavings. Mary’s newest exhibition, Women and Water: Woven Portraits from Around the World, features women who work with and for water across the globe.
Sandra Byers (Rock Springs) earned a design degree from Cornell University, where she discovered her love of clay. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is in the collections of the Racine Art Museum, Purdue University (Indiana), the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, and Arizona State University, among others. She has twice been an Artist in Residence at Kohler Company’s Arts/Industry program, including two solo exhibitions at Kohler Art Center. She
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