My artistic skills have been hone from over 40 years of image-making, having transitioned from traditional painting and print-making through black and white film and darkroom printmaking, to current high-end digital image capture and processing, and back to exploring painting and other graphic and fine art medias in my studio. I was an award-winning newspaper journalist for ten years, working full time for the Journal Communications Publishing, Inc. from 1999 through 2009. I continue my work throughout the stylistic spectrum from editorial photojournalism, fine art photography, experimental visual formats, portraiture, sports action and even photography. I re-established an art studio presence that embraces all manner of photography as well as traditional and multi-media fine art.

Jennifer is a trained graphic designer and she’s worked as an art director/graphic designer for  many years for mostly nonprofit organizations.

Her graphic designer work eventually morphed into illustration opportunities. She worked making illustrations for many clients including: Plank Road Publishing, Children’s Hospital WI, Milwaukee Ballet, Colgate University, and many other local, national, and international clients. With the retirement of her clients, Jennifer started to study oil painting and she now paints portraits, still life, and landscapes. She’s having a blast doing her pictures.

“Alcohol ink takes you where it wants to go. You can guide it, but you can't force it. You have to embrace the element of surpise. Art has always been an important part of my life. I majored in art history with a studio component at Smith College and earned a PhD from the University of London, specializing in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. I was initially drawn to the vibrant hues of alcohol ink, which reminded me of the stained glass windows in medieval churches.

I work in a complex and unconventional manner. Each canvas is composed of multiple layers of ink and acrylic - sometimes as many as 30. Pigments are both added and removed to create various effects. Copious amounts of rubbing alcohol are poured directly onto the canvas to move the ink. Brushes are used sparingly.”

“I’ve been working with clay since 1982. I am self-taught, but clay taught me a lot about the world.”

“My working process is a connection between myself and nature. The finished pieces are a connection between myself and other people. Hiking with my daughter in the Southwest, my son's land in northern Wisconsin, and memories of my grandparent's farm are sources for ideas. Textures of grasses, layers of drying leaves, and piles of stone. Colors of sunlight, shadows, and decay. Patterns of branches, tree bark, and pebbles in the sand. They are all part of the natural world that inspires me. Whether creating abstracts or more realistic renderings of nature, I work with a combination of spontaneity and editing. Multiple layers of ink -both transparent and opaque-are applied, edited and applied again. Eventually the piece will reflect nature with its rich surface quality, texture and energy.”

Mark’s passion for art began early as he sat beside his great-uncle Bill and learned to draw and built model boats and paint. Great-uncle Bill was a self-taught artist. He was also a boatbuilder, who passed on his passion for art and boats to Mark.

By high school Mark was hooked on art and set off to study it in college, first at Layton School of Art and then graduating from the Portland School of Art in Maine. By day, Mark has worked in advertising as a Creative Director.

Still, he never lost his love of drawing and the sea. From this, passion for maritime history emerged and led to Mark becoming Curator at the North Point Lighthouse Museum in Milwaukee. Mark has since designed exhibits for the Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Pabst Mansion Museum, Bucyrus Erie Museum, Milwaukee Soldiers Home, The Milwaukee War Memorial Center, The Charles Allis Art Museum and Villa Terrace.

The pencil he picked up with great-uncle Bill is still a big part of Mark’s life, along with watercolor, assemblages and whatever pops into his head.

“I am drawn to mosaics because of the tactile, colorful, and diverse possibilities. My mosaics encompass 3 varieties, repurposing, imagining, and the whimsical. Though I may sometimes strive to create a certain type of piece, it never fails to surprise and amuse me what I actually end up with as a finished product, be it a decorated box, a bowl, a lamp, a cabinet, a picture frame, or an abstract representation. The process of creating a mosaic is fun, joyful, cathartic, and messy, to produce a colorful, funky, and exciting work of either art or craft.”

Donna Genzmer is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based fine art textile and mixed media artist. After a career as an educator and cartographer, she relishes reframing the stories she tells through mixed art mediums.
Changes over space and time inform my work.

While fiber and textiles have spoken to me since childhood, I
explore mixed mediums in my creative process. I am intrigued by
serendipity and endless possibilities.

My practice embraces the natural environment and its cultural
context. Natural materials, including from my dye garden, figure in
my work. I employ environmentally conscious methods to produce
color, line and form. I reuse and repurpose to lessen the impact of
waste while telling a story.

My goal is to foster introspection in our interactions with the
environment.

“Paper folding, the basis of my art, isn’t always considered a highly valued art form. There are certain rules and perceptions about what constitutes ‘key’ or ‘priceless’ art,” said SeonJoo. “But my focus has always been on teaching. I wanted to share the benefits of paper folding as a way to relieve stress, develop motor skills, and foster concentration and creativity.”