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Jessica Meuninck Ganger

  • Associate Professor (on sabbatical 2025-26), Printmaking & Book Arts
  • Area Head, Printmaking & Book Arts

Education

  • MFA, Studio Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
  • BS, Art Education, Ball State University

Biography

Jessica Meuninck-Ganger creates prints, time-based, and sculptural works that have been exhibited in museums and both experimental and commercial galleries regionally, nationally, and internationally. Her works on paper are included in several private and public collections, including the Weisman Museum of Art, Saint Kate Arts Hotel (seed collection), Jeonbuk Museum of Art in South Korea, Ripon College, Northwestern Mutual, Target Corporation, and has been featured in contemporary publications, such as Andrea Ferber’s, Sustenance: Contemporary Printmaking Now, Richard Noyce’s, Printmaking Beyond the Edge, and Nathaniel Stern’s, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. Jessica earned a BS degree in Art Education from Ball State University and an MFA in Studio Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is currently an Associate Professor, Area Head of Printmaking and Book Arts, and Director of Graduate Studies in Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of The House of RAD (Resident Artist Doers) and the Executive Board Chair and Acting Director of Anchor Press, Paper and Print, Milwaukee, WI.

Jessica Meuninck-Ganger’s research demonstrates how printmaking, book arts, and social engagement encourage connection and healing within communities. As an artist, educator, and collaborator, she crafts spaces where traditions flourish, skills are shared, and new possibilities are discovered through material and process. With over 25 years of enriching experience, she has collectively orchestrated community projects, sparked interdisciplinary collaborations, and fostered international initiatives that elevate the arts in local and global communities. Through mentorship, exchange, co-creation, and grassroots organizing, she champions printmaking, papermaking, and book arts—tools for belonging, resilience, and collective innovation. In 2022, she proudly received the Outstanding Creative Research Achievement Award, biennially presented to a UWM faculty member for impactful contributions. This recognized her remarkable work on WaterMarks MKE (NSF funded grant), Aesthetics of Loss (a collaborative curatorial endeavor with Nirmal Raja and Linda Marcus), Care Showers (in partnership with Anne Basting, PhD), and Anchor Press, Paper, and Print (the sole community printshop in Milwaukee, WI).

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Recent & Selected Work

Corner of room, square framed art prints hung on left wall, more prints growing from ground to ceiling in the corner, hanging fabric and suitcase on right.
Many prints of a paper plate hung on a white wall, three are framed
framed painting of stacked paper plates that are torn or halved, with notes written on them
Abstract collage print of chains, hands, faces, doilies, and charms. Mostly in red, blue, and cream.
Sculpture of buildings and wooden boardwalks with long empty paths between, leading off into the distance. In white, black and cream.
Close up of a sculpture, rendered clipboard with inventory needs noted, drawing paint brushes and tools hang beside it

Artistic Exhibitions & Artwork

  • Sin Fronteras, Printmaking Residency and Exhibition, Taller de Artes Plásticas Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2026
  • nSitu Polyculture Residency, Westminster, VT. 2025

Awards

  • Friend of the Arts Award, awarded by the Milwaukee Arts Board, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 2024
  • Outstanding Creative Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 2022

Grants/Funded Research

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, Core Research Team member, Community-University Working Group member, Activation Team member, Project Team member, granted 2.8 million dollars in support of “WaterMarks: an Art/Science Framework for Community Engaged Learning and Environmental Stewardship.” 2021-2025
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 2015