Colescott is a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy, an Academician of the National Academy of Design, and has won prizes in five of their annual exhibits and has juried their graphic entries three times. He was appointed Printmaker Emeritus by the Southern Graphics Council in 1992, a special honor.
For more than thirty years photographer Greg Conniff has focused his attention on the landscapes of daily life—from backyards to the rural countryside—convinced that those places and how they look are the soil into which we sink our roots as human beings and through which we develop our sense of home. Conniff’s black-and-white images point directly to the deep beauty of the ordinary world.
Angelica Contreras is a Latinx artist who explores the multi-layered relationships between identity, tradition, and popular culture. Her artwork has been shown in exhibitions in Mexico and the U.S.
Demitra Copoulos is an artist based in Milwaukee working primarily in mixed-media sculpture. In her studio practice, she focuses on the human form in its many facets, physical, psychological, and physiological. Copoulos finds inspiration in exploring ways to portray the dynamics of the human form, its vast emotional behavior, and how these impact society.
Carl Corey has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of more than 100 awards from the advertising, publishing, and photography communities. His photographs have been the subject of several books, including the Wisconsin Historical Society Press titles For Love and Money: A Portrait of the Family Business (2014) and The Tavern League: A Portrait of the Wisconsin Tavern (2011).
John Craig earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a MFA in printmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked for over forty years as an award-winning illustrator, during which time his work was featured in Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and Sesame Street, amongst others. He has had solo exhibitions at University of Northern Iowa, Clark College in Iowa and in Tokyo, Japan.
Bruce Crownover was born in 1961 in Southern California. He earned his BFA from Utah State University and his MFA in printmaking from UW-Madison in 1989. Crownover worked with Keiji Shinohara, a Japanese Ukiyo-e master printer at Cherrywood Press in Boston, creating prints for Sean Scully, Chuck Close, Robert Stackhouse and John Newman. In 1992, Crownover returned to Madison and became an associate printer at Tandem Press, a fine art print studio affiliated with UW-Madison.
Nova Czarnecki works with oil paint, creating vibrant life-sized images of figures in motion, emotional portraits, and amped-up nature. After graduating from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a degree in painting, she has continued a disciplined career as an artist in Milwaukee, exhibiting her work in various galleries. Her paintings reveal the human experience in colorful explosions of alternate reality, using lyrical movement and design to make the unseen seen.
Wisconsin Academy Offices
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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
