Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Amy O’Neill

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The work of Amy O’Neill investigates the intersections and balances between community and isolation, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Her paintings explore the invisible structures that support, improve, or divide specific communities. Her work has been included in juried and invitational exhibitions across the US and locally at the Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Charles Allis Art Museum.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London/Berlin-based black trans artist, game developer and mother. Through video game aesthetics and technologies, Brathwaite-Shirley aims to bring to the forefront the experiences of Black trans women and, more generally, to archive the Black trans experience.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Hollis Hammonds

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Hollis Hammonds is a multimedia artist whose work, built on memory and utilizing evidence from the public collective consciousness, investigates social issues ranging from economic disparity and state violence to environmental degradation and human-made disasters. Her dystopian drawings and found-object installations have been widely exhibited throughout the US.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Sulo Bee

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Sulo Bee is a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Bee currently teaches in Metals and Foundations the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Wind Band Conducting Symposium

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Wind Band Conducting Symposium will focus on enhancing conducting, score study, and wind band teaching. Conducting participants will conduct the UWM Wind Ensemble or Symphony Band while receiving feedback from the conducting faculty. Session topics also include conducting pedagogy, rehearsal techniques, and musicianship. Attendees may participate as either a Conducting Participant or an Observing Auditor. Conducting participants will also have the opportunity to conduct one of the large wind bands in concert at the end of the symposium.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tina Rivers Ryan

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Tina Rivers Ryan is currently Editor in Chief of Artforum magazine. Her expertise is in the field of media art, including video, digital, and internet art. She has received some of the most prestigious honors for curators and critics including: Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence (2022).

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Siara Berry

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Siara Berry is a sculptor working in a wide array of mediums. Her work has been exhibited in the Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend; and Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. In addition to her art practice, Berry serves as the Arts/Industry Program Director for the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Frank Juárez

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Juárez is the art department chair at Sheboygan North High School, publisher of Artdose Magazine, and editor-in-chief of SchoolArts magazine. He brings over two decades of art education and arts management experience organizing local and regional art exhibitions, community art events, and supporting artists through grant programs and leading professional development workshops for artists.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Lisa Tubach

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Lisa Tubach's practice is dedicated to documenting the oceans, coral reefs, sharks, and other species. Her creative research has taken her to the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Tubach’s paintings have been exhibited in over 70 exhibitions throughout the world.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Barbara Ciurej / Lindsay Lochman

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Ciurej and Lochman collaborate on photographic projects that address history, myth and popular culture as they shape our understanding of who we are. They write: “collaboration opens the possibility of moving beyond personal stories and into the realm of collective experience. It has been the core of our practice and mirrors the fluid and mutable ways of storytelling traditions.”

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Oksana Kryzhanivska

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Oksana Kryzhanivska’s interactive art installations, sculptures, and screen-based works have been exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, China, and numerous online exhibitions. Oksana’s work explores the extension of a human body with technology, investigating our norms of perception.

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