University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Charles Timm-Ballard's recent work addresses collisions between past and present: pre-industrial/industrial/post industrial, and nature-made versus human-made.

Jacinda Russell transforms objects into self-portraits, representations of place, and symbols of fixation. She works primarily in the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking.

Artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator, Morehshin Allahyari is the recipient of Foreign Policy Magazine's 2016 "Leading Global Thinkers" award, former Eyebeam NYC and BANFF Canada artist in residence, and an internationally exhibited and critically reviewed thinker and maker.

2016 Nohl Fellow (Established) Jesse McLean’s creative work and research are motivated by a deep curiosity regarding human behavior and relationships, especially with and arising through media and technology.

David Lenz is a UW-Milwaukee alumnus (1985) whose work includes meticulously rendered photo-realistic paintings bring to glowing light the faces of inner city kids experiencing joyful moments, a couple on a small subsistence Wisconsin family farm, and his own son Sam, who was born with Downs Syndrome.

Deborah Jojola’s creative practice connects her tribal lands and history by reviving images from the past and transforming them into symbolic forms for the future.

Milwaukee native Della Wells is a self-taught, multi-faceted artist. Born in 1951, Wells has deep roots in the city's art community. In 2016 she, along with Dasha Kelly, were named 2016 Artists of the Year by the City of Milwaukee Arts Board.

Wrestling control of her inherently fluid medium, Maggie Michael's work can be seen as reckoning with painting's dual nature, at once dynamic and still. Within individual works she achieves an exquisite tension between those states, but the arc of her career more generally can be seen as a back-and-forth between them

Beneath the surface, Beth Cavaner's work explores the consequences of human fear, aggression and misunderstanding through animal forms, and therefore transforms her animal subjects into human psychological portraits.

Rose Curley will speak on her recent work, a graphic memoir examining the issues surrounding her transracial adoption.

Michelle Angela Ortiz is a visual artist/skilled muralist/community arts educator who uses her art as a vehicle to represent people and communities whose histories are often lost or co-opted.