The last of our artist bios for Illuminate is posted below. Carol Knitter will be working on her installation in conjunction with Sue Pezanoski Browne.
Carol Knitter is a freelance graphic artist and illustrator. She also conducts hands-on workshops for kids and adults on everything from silkscreening to making sushi. Carol holds a BFA in Painting & Drawing and Visual Communications, as well as a degree in Occupational Therapy, from UW Milwaukee. She has worked as a photographer and ad agency art director. Carol has recently added carpentry and stereographic photography to her ever-expanding list of interests and know-how.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Artist Spotlight
One more artist bio for the upcoming RAA exhibition, Illuminate...
Pen Light, Jon T. Brown
Jon Brown is a traditional and Flash animator. He graduated from Vancouver Film School in 2006 and found gainful employment in television production doing layout, prop design, animation, storyboards, and digital clean-up for Studio B Productions in Vancouver, BC. He has done freelance animation for a variety of independent production companies as well as television commercials, web animation, logo design, caricatures, and advertising campaigns.
He is now a Resident Artist at Redline Gallery in Milwaukee where he is working on a new animated short and teaching stop-motion and 2D animation to kids.
Pen Light, Jon T. BrownMore of Jon's work can be found at: jontbrown.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Illuminate - Paticipating Artists' Bios
Artist Bios for RAA's upcoming exhibition, Illuminate...
Tom Galbraith
An accomplished glass artist who works with neon and other luminous gases, Tom will exhibit several of his innovative signature works in the “Illuminate” exhibition. Having studied scientific glass blowing and the kinetic and luminous properties of various gases, Tom’s work is quite different than what is generally expected of neon art work. Existing somewhere along the boundaries between art and science, these pieces have an energetic sense of experiment, motion and drama.
Tom Galbraith
Ximena Soza
Ximena Soza was born in Chile in 1975, a country that was deeply troubled by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet at the time. The experience has marked her as a person; she is now a teacher, writer and artist, whose work is always committed to social justice. Ximena has participated in several collective exhibits, showing her work in different medias, such as stone carving, metal work and weaving. In Milwaukee she has installed many Ofrendas for Day of the Dead at WPCA, UWM and Latino Arts. She also participated in the show Emergent Latinos in Milwaukee and In Borders, an exhibit about immigration into the United States, held at UW Oshkosh. Ximena has worked as a performing artist with different theater companies, and has also been awarded with
several international literary prizes for her fiction and poetry. She is currently a teacher in MPS and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Sue Pezanoski Browne
Sue Pezanoski Browne is a local artist, and an art educator. She currently works as an art specialist at La Escuela Fratney, a part of the Milwaukee Public School system. Her art often involves community-based collaborations with other artists and students, in the creation of culturally responsive mixed media pieces. Sue has an extensive background in museum education, and holds undergraduate degrees in both Art History and Philosophy, as well as a Certification in Art Education. She is currently completing her MS in Art Education at UW Milwaukee.
Robert E. Koch
Robert has been a Riverwest area resident and businessman for many years. He has operated a sheet metal business and currently runs a property rental business in the neighborhood. His long time interests in art and science have brought him to the project on display in the exhibition, an installation that combines image and word in an exploration of the properties and influences of light.
Cristian Muñoz
Tom Galbraith
An accomplished glass artist who works with neon and other luminous gases, Tom will exhibit several of his innovative signature works in the “Illuminate” exhibition. Having studied scientific glass blowing and the kinetic and luminous properties of various gases, Tom’s work is quite different than what is generally expected of neon art work. Existing somewhere along the boundaries between art and science, these pieces have an energetic sense of experiment, motion and drama.
Tom GalbraithXimena Soza
Ximena Soza was born in Chile in 1975, a country that was deeply troubled by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet at the time. The experience has marked her as a person; she is now a teacher, writer and artist, whose work is always committed to social justice. Ximena has participated in several collective exhibits, showing her work in different medias, such as stone carving, metal work and weaving. In Milwaukee she has installed many Ofrendas for Day of the Dead at WPCA, UWM and Latino Arts. She also participated in the show Emergent Latinos in Milwaukee and In Borders, an exhibit about immigration into the United States, held at UW Oshkosh. Ximena has worked as a performing artist with different theater companies, and has also been awarded with
several international literary prizes for her fiction and poetry. She is currently a teacher in MPS and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Sue Pezanoski Browne
Sue Pezanoski Browne is a local artist, and an art educator. She currently works as an art specialist at La Escuela Fratney, a part of the Milwaukee Public School system. Her art often involves community-based collaborations with other artists and students, in the creation of culturally responsive mixed media pieces. Sue has an extensive background in museum education, and holds undergraduate degrees in both Art History and Philosophy, as well as a Certification in Art Education. She is currently completing her MS in Art Education at UW Milwaukee.
Robert E. Koch
Robert has been a Riverwest area resident and businessman for many years. He has operated a sheet metal business and currently runs a property rental business in the neighborhood. His long time interests in art and science have brought him to the project on display in the exhibition, an installation that combines image and word in an exploration of the properties and influences of light.
Cristian Muñoz
Cristian Muñoz' artistic career started when he was still a teenager. During the years of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in his native country Chile, Cristian supported the student movement and the political struggle of that time. His political murals are now a part of several compilations on mural art. As a student Cristian used his art for making videos and documentaries, and has participated successfully in several short film festivals. One of his films is in the collection of The Historical National Museum in Chile. During his years in Santiago, Cristian was a teaching assistant at Universidad Arcis in several subjects, and participated in many collective exhibits. Since his arrival in Milwaukee in 2007, Cristian has been part of the show Emergent Latinos in Milwaukee at WPCA and many installations for Day of the Dead at UWM, WPCA, Latino Arts and The Milwaukee Art Museum.
(Carol Knitter, Jon T Brown, still to come.)
(Carol Knitter, Jon T Brown, still to come.)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
enLIGHTened
This upcoming exhibition revolves around the theme of 'light'. Selected artists will receive installation and production assistance from UWM's Visual Arts Living and Learning Community, under the direction of Raoul Deal and RAA's Gallery Committee.
The artists chosen for their installation work to be featured in RAA's Illuminate exhibition are:
Jon T. Brown
Robert E. Koch
Tom Galbraith
Ximena Soza
Cristian Muñoz
and
Sue Pezanoski Browne and Carol Knitter
More information on our artists, and this interactive exhibition will be coming very soon! Please check back for updates.
The artists chosen for their installation work to be featured in RAA's Illuminate exhibition are:
Jon T. Brown
Robert E. Koch
Tom Galbraith
Ximena Soza
Cristian Muñoz
and
Sue Pezanoski Browne and Carol Knitter
More information on our artists, and this interactive exhibition will be coming very soon! Please check back for updates.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
We're Making It!
Recently, Producer Adam Carr of 88Nine Radio Milwaukee started a series about art in Milwaukee. What do you know, our dear friend, RAA member, curator, and artist made the list! Evelyn Patricia Terry was interviewed in her new gallery, The Terry McCormick Gallery: Contemporary Fine and Folk Art. You can hear the entire interview here, and as a bonus, RAA member Shana Goetsch happens to be exhibiting in Evelyn's gallery also. She had a few good words to say about her own art, working with Evelyn, and the RAA. (This is the second interview snip) A good showing for our active members, congrats on 'Making Milwaukee' a creative place!
(p.s. I know the irony of posting this myself, but you do what you have to, if no one else is around to make the post. -sg)
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