Mentees

Abbey Gagne
My love for creating and working with my hands extends throughout my life. I jump between creative and mundane processes of making in order to navigate the day to day....
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Abigail Engstrand
A born Midwesterner, Abigail Engstrand has lived and worked most of her life within a few miles of Lake Michigan. She earned her B.F.A. and her Art Teaching certificate at...
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Allison Westbrook
Milwaukee born and raised I grew up in a large family where my artistic inclinations were a result of being left to my imagination for long stretches of time. I’ve...
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Andrew Megow
Andrew Megow has been drawing for as long as he can remember. Highly influenced by the works of Bill Watterson and Charles M. Schultz, he developed a love for the...
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Amal Azzam
Amal Azzam is a Muslim American artist living in Milwaukee, WI. After studying Design at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee she worked as a freelance designer for local businesses including...
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Colin Mitchell
Growing up in the home of an underground comix artist, I was steeped in the realm of creatives from a young age. My father was a cartoonist and my mother...
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KT Mullen
KT Mullen is an interdisciplinary artist known for creating public art projects that bring awareness to issues impacting our city in a way that both opens people’s eyes and inspires...
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Kimberly Burnett
I began creating art at 2 years old and never stopped. Art helped me to cope with my isolated, impoverished childhood. After two abusive relationships, I have once again turned...
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Laura Boban
I am a Milwaukee-based, visual artist working across textiles, sculpture and performance-based video. I received my BFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008 followed by ten years...
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Maria Alfaro
Maria Alfaro is a Mexican-American printmaker, painter, and muralist. Born and raised in the small town of Acumbaro, Michoacan; she emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2016. Here, she recently earned...
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MK Widener
MK Widener is a Milwaukee born and raised interdisciplinary artist. A recent UW-Milwaukee graduate, she flows between the practices of printmaking, illustration and digital art, often overlapping and meshing them...
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Meg Strobel
My father worked in a factory and my mother operated a day-care out of our home. Growing up, I didn't know that being an artist was a thing. Sure, I'd...
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Meghan McGrath
Meghan Burke McGrath is best known for her large scale, colorful paintings on paper that express the search for memory. The paintings take on a woodblock, print-like appearance with two...
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Reese Rousseau
Reese Rousseau is a furniture maker and graphic designer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Rousseau received his BFA, with a focus in Communication Design, and Furniture from the Milwaukee Institute of...
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cRegloria
cRegloria was born in 1989 in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. She is currently a BA in Studio Art candidate. This year, she will apply to residencies for summer and fall of...
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Tracy Nickolaus
My name is Tracy Keller Nickolaus. Born in Washington DC, and raised in Maryland. In 1993 I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, in Studio Art, from Mary Washington College...
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