Jessica Meuninck-Ganger is an American printmaker and book artist based in Milwaukee. She began her professional career teaching in the Elkhart Memorial High School art department, where she received the Sallie Mae Outstanding Beginning Teacher award. While teaching in Indiana, she co-chaired the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for the Indiana/Michigan region and taught summer courses through the Elkhart School Corporation's Gifted and Talented Program. She received her MFA in Studio art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2004 and a BS degree in visual arts education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in 1995. She is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. [1]
Meuninck-Ganger is mostly known for her collaborations with new media artist Nathaniel Stern; their work combines various forms of traditional printmaking with video and machinima. As a duo, the artists "mount translucent prints and drawings on top of video monitors, which appear to bring moving images to life on paper." [2] According to Chris Roper of South Africa's Mail and Guardian, "The work is funny, pretty and accessible, but it’s also complicated, surprising, exceedingly well crafted and rewards a long-term relationship." [3] The works pay homage to and cite a number of artists, including Diego Velázquez, [4] Katsushika Hokusai, [5] Eadweard Muybridge, Claude Monet, Jan van Eyck, William Kentridge, Utagawa Hiroshige and others. [6]
In 2019 Meuninck-Ganger was an artist in residence at Banyan Hearts studio with Marjan Cornelius. [7]
Meuninck-Ganger's work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally and her prints and books are included in several private collections as well as in portfolios owned by the Weisman Art Museum and the Target Corporation. She's received numerous residencies and fellowships, and has instructed various printmaking courses and workshops at the South Bend Museum of Art, Charles Martin Youth Center, High Point, North Carolina Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
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Arthur Thrall was an American painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the United States and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and U.S. embassies. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel art critic James Auer said Thrall is one to "defy the dictates of fashion" and "whose high-styled uses of calligraphy rival those of the great age of the Ottomans." His work explores the abstract qualities of the alphabet and recalls "the elegant hand scripts in ceremonial documents and proclamations of an earlier age," re-creating "the tensions and rhythms emerging from a historic document."
SisterMaria Stanisia, S.S.N.D., was an American Catholic nun, artist, and painter, member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
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Donald George Vogl is a prolific artist and retired art professor from the University of Notre Dame. His art is on display in permanent collections at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Midwest Museum of American Art-Elkhart, Haggerty Museum of Marquette University Milwaukee, Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University, Blank Center for the Arts in Michigan City, and South Bend Museum of Art. He's listed in Who's Who in American Art 1988-2010.
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Dyani White Hawk is a contemporary artist and curator of Sicangu Lakota, German, and Welsh ancestry based out of Minnesota. From 2010 to 2015, White Hawk was a curator for the Minneapolis gallery All My Relations. As an artist, White Hawk's work aesthetic is characterized by a combination of modern abstract painting and traditional Lakota art. White Hawk's pieces reflect both her Western, American upbringing and her indigenous ancestors mediums and modes for creating visual art.
Mary Moulton Cheney was an artist and visual arts educator in Minneapolis. In addition to her own work with printmaking, bookbinding and design, she was also involved with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Handicraft Guild and other arts organizations in the city.
Maria Cristina Tavera ("Tina") is a contemporary Latino artist, curator, and cultural organizer who lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. Influenced by her dual citizenship, as well as her transnational movement between her residing Minnesota and Mexico families, she combines historical and contemporary texts and images from recognizable Latin American myths, legends, and present news. Tavera uses her prints, paintings, installations, and Dia de los Muertos ofrendas, or altars, to explore the way that national and cultural icons symbolize complex identities and can construct shared communities at home and abroad. Her artwork is both humorous and confrontational as she invites her viewers to question constructs of race, gender, ethnicity and national and cultural identities. She has exhibited her artwork and curated shows all around the world, and has artworks permanently installed in several art exhibits throughout Minnesota.
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Sylvia Solochek Walters is an American artist and educator. She has produced drawings, paintings and collage works in her career, but is best known for complex woodcut prints created through the "reduction and stencil" process. Her work combines elements of realist, decorative and formalist art, flat and illusionistic space, and varied patterning and textures. She has largely focused on portraits, still lifes and domestic interiors, and collage-like combinations of personal symbolism—concerns that writers often align with early feminist art.
Frances Julia Myers was an American printmaker.
Alfred A. Sessler was an American artist known for his murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), his printmaking, and his career as a teacher.