Lou Host-Jablonski is an architect with Design Coalition Inc. of Madison. His projects of the last forty-plus years include multi-family housing and co-housing, childcare centers, new homes and additions, community-built projects, community centers and playgrounds, and home modifications for persons with disabilities and chemical sensitivities. Host-Jablonski has always practiced a socially-conscious, ‘public interest’ architecture.
Chele Isaac is a video and installation artist from Madison, WI. Her narrative works utilize multi-channel video projections, sound as environment, photography and sculpture. Her installations have shown nationally in art centers, project galleries and museums. Her short films have screened in group shows and film festivals in the US and internationally.
Leslie Iwai (Middleton) creates artwork inhabiting the space between architecture, sculpture, performance and experience. Educated in mathematics, science, and architecture, her conceptually-based artwork forms as she explores associations found through research, discussion, meditation, metaphor and observation.
Mark Iwinski is a conceptual artist using interdisciplinary means including site specific, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and book arts to reveal layers of absence and memory in our landscape and cities. Originally, from Milwaukee, he studied sculpture, life drawing, watercolor and film, receiving his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1991.
Robin Jebavy has been exploring glassware imagery in painting for many years, drawing inspiration from still life artists including the 17th century Dutch Masters, Paul Cézanne, Giorgio Morandi; and contemporary figures like Janet Fish and Beth Lipman.
Helen John graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2017. While at the university, she designed a concept for the Nolen Waterfront as part of her capstone project. In her last semester she began her involvement with the Madison Design Professionals Workgroup and portions of her concept were incorporated into the schemes developed by the group's design teams.
Julie Renée Jones learned about photography from her father, a practicing amateur imagemaker. Jones went on to earn a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in photography and during that time, developed two kindred yet dueling bodies of work: Thirteen and Umbra. Both deal with the role that family and childhood plays in understanding ourselves, the uses of imagination and its power to transcend and reveal reality, and the specifics of growing up in suburban Midwest America.
An assistant professor of photography at UW–Madison, Tom Jones’s work may be found in the National Museum of the American Indian and the Chazen Museum of Art. Jones’s Ho-Chunk identity is central to his work as an artist. Keenly aware of photography’s role in shaping white culture’s perception of “Indian-ness,” he uses his own camera to offer a perspective from within the Ho-Chunk community.
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
