Mentors
Amy Cannestra
Amy Cannestra is a contemporary artist that uses performance, digital media, sculpture, and drawing to explore the weight physical and mental trauma puts on the body and soul on a...
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Alayna N. Pernell
Alayna N. Pernell (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator from Alabama. In May 2019, she graduated from The University of Alabama where she received her Bachelor of...
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Ariana Vaeth
Ariana Vaeth is a Baltimore raised artist focused on contemporary narrative through the self-portrait. Her work lives within an entanglement of tender interactions within the home. Vaeth received her undergraduate...
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Bryon Cherry
Bryon Cherry is rock and soul musician and poet from Milwaukee, WI. In 2021 Cherry was named best R&B/Soul artist in Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards. Cherry...
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David Najib Kasier
David Najib Kasir is an Artist/Painter/Muralist/Curator who lives and works in Milwaukee WI. His work comprises of personal narratives in life and cultural history or events. In recent years, Kasir's...
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DeMar Walker
DeMar Walker is the Artistic Director of Ko-Thi Dance Company. He has performed & choreographed in the following productions: The Sweet Grass Project, VIBRATIONS: Rhythmic Motion, UJIMA & JUBA-LEE which...
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Heidi Parkes
Before Heidi Parkes was born in Chicago, IL in 1982, her grandmother organized a collaborative family quilt to commemorate her birth. This set the tone for a life centered on...
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Jaymee Harvey Willms
Jaymee Harvey Willms is an artist living and working in the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin. She was born and raised in Maplewood, Minnesota. From there she moved to South Dakota...
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Jessica Laub
Jessica Laub is a visual artist who works in a variety of media and is currently focused in ceramics, mosaics and painting. Her artistic style, characterized by a bold use...
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John Kowalczyk
Born in Chicago in 1988, John Kowalczyk currently lives and works in Milwaukee, WI as an artist who utilizes art as a vehicle towards a more equitable society. He received...
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Katie Avila Loughmiller
Katie Avila Loughmiller is an interdisciplinary social practice artist, writer, educator, curator and activist based in Milwaukee, WI. Avila Loughmiller received her BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study...
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Maeve Jackson
Maeve Jackson is a Milwaukee based artist with a nomadic sensibility. As she travels her making space shifts based where she resides. Jackson is resistant to being limited to any...
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Matthew Gramling
I grew up in Uptown, Milwaukee, which has given me the ability to live in all sorts of neighborhoods throughout the city. I grew up with 5 siblings, I'm the...
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Maria Soledad Gillespie
Maria Soledad Gillespie is a choreographer, performer, dance, and somatic educator. She directs MG/The Collaboratory and Hyperlocal MKE, dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration and improvised performance practice. She directs the community...
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Nathaniel Stern
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, NEA, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced projects ranging from ecological, participatory, and online interventions, interactive,...
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Nirmal Raja
Nirmal Raja is an interdisciplinary artist living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had lived in India, South Korea and Hong Kong before immigrating to the United States thirty years ago. She...
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