Sarah FitzSimons combines sculpture, photography and video to create pieces that range from temporary interventions to permanently placed work. Her projects often involve oceans, deserts, rivers, or mountain ranges, and explore collisions of the physical and metaphoric. She has exhibited internationally and in cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, Atlanta, Burlington, and Cleveland, and has installed numerous pieces outdoors.
Anwar Floyd-Pruitt is an artist, curator, and puppeteer from Milwaukee. A graduate of UW-Madison (MFA ’20), Floyd-Pruitt also earned a BFA from UW-Milwaukee (’16) and BA in Psychology from Harvard University (’99). The Chazen Museum of Art, Edgewood College, Mount Mary University and the Museum of Wisconsin Art have hosted solo exhibitions of his collages, paintings, and mixed-media self-portraits.
Lisa Frank holds an MFA from the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has also worked as a lecturer and director of the Design Gallery. She has an extensive professional background as an artist working in New York City, where she designed textiles, wallpaper, and innovative surface treatments for residential and commercial interior projects.
Donald Friedlich lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin. His jewelry has been shown in museums all over the world and is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and others.
Born in Chicago, Maureen Fritchen lives and works in Racine, Wisconsin, where for the past 16 years she has had a studio at the 16th Street Studios. Fritchen took a self-directed approach to art scholarship, focusing on painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, UW-Whitewater, Boise State University, UW-Parkside, and UW-Pigeon Lake. Fritchen regularly shows in regional juried, invitational, and biennials exhibitions.
Alison Gates (Appleton) is an artist, academic, educator, writer, researcher, feminist, and reviewer who cultivates flax and natural dyes on the side. She works primarily in assemblage sculpture and stitched or knitted/knotted textiles with emotional and political content. She regularly collaborates on projects with a medieval archaeologist and a biologist.
Thomas Gaudynski grew up and spent time walking around Milwaukee, West Allis, and the Kinnickinnic River collecting and observing flora, fauna, rocks, and detritus. He was educated at various libraries, museums, bookstores, and record shops. Eschewing a career in the visual arts in his early twenties, he decided to paint with sound to the regret of those who thought he was talented.
Lilada Gee is an artist, muralist, healer, preacher, author and international inspirational speaker and podcast host. Lilada founded a nonprofit organization—Defending Black Girlhood—that specializes in advocating for Black girls being safe in their homes, schools and communities to live, learn, and be loved.
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
