Alums Evelyn Patricia Terry (BFA 1970, Art; MS 1973, Art) and lecturer and alum Yinan Wang (BFA 2017, Film) were named among five recipients of the 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists. Terry was selected in the Established Artist category, and Wang was selected in the Emerging Artist category.
Established in honor of artist Mary L. Nohl following her death in 2001, the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists provides unrestricted funds for Milwaukee-area artists to create new work or complete work in progress. FVANG Associate Professor Mike Gibisser was also named a finalist in the Emerging Artist category.
Evelyn Patricia Terry
Evelyn Patricia Terry is a full-time professional artist and the City of Milwaukee’s 2014 Artist of the Year. Her multidisciplinary practice includes printmaking, collage, mixed media, book arts, and works on paper. Her work has been exhibited locally, regionally, and internationally and is held in more than 500 public, private, and corporate collections.
Her recent site-specific commissioned installation at ThriveOn King, America’s Favor, America: Guests Who Came to Dinner and Stayed (2024), features a 16-foot table with recycled wood–turned legs, globally sourced ethnic dolls, a George Ray McCormick Sr. sculpture, and plates adorned with raw-food replicas. Together, these elements encourage healthy choices, thoughtful reflection, and a deeper understanding of America’s beginnings—how and why we are here.
She has exhibited locally, regionally, and internationally in Spain, Germany, Japan, and Russia, and has created public art projects for her neighborhood and for Mitchell International Airport.
As a recipient of the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in the Established Artist category, Terry will receive a $20,000 fellowship along with an additional $5,000 stipend to support her practice.
Yinan Wang
Yinan Wang 王一男 is a filmmaker born and raised in Beijing and now based in Milwaukee. Working across personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms, his practice explores how memory, language, humor, ritual, and food shape our sense of home—following the shifting contours of cultural identity shaped as much by migration as by longing.
His recent work, 甜腻腻 Thick & Sweet, reconstructs both personal and collective memories of a local Chinese restaurant through cutouts, reenactments, found footage, and fragments of earlier films, quietly probing how images form—and deform—cultural identity.
His work has been shared across festivals, community programs, classrooms, and international venues. A 2022 Flaherty Fellow and 2020 University Film and Video Fellow, he has received the Cream City Cinema Jury Award and the Sikay Tang Critical Lens Award, and his practice has been supported by the Brico Forward Fund, the Harry L. Friedberg Award, and the Robert A. Nelson Scholarship.
As an Emerging Artist fellow, Wang will receive a $10,000 award, along with an additional $5,000 to support future work.
The panel of jurors included Anthony Graham, Senior Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs, The Bronx Museum, New York.
All of the 2026 fellows are based in Milwaukee. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in professional development activities and studio visits, and in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art in the summer of 2027. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally.
Story by Payton Murphy ’27 (BFA Film)