Phoenix S. Brown is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and musician. Originally from Cincinnati, she earned her BFA from MIAD with a minor in art history. Her work has been featured in solo shows at Hawthorn Contemporary, Wright Museum of Art, and Trout Museum of Art.
The Korean American Faculty & Staff Association at 51猎奇 and Korean American Association of Milwaukee host the 2025 Milwaukee KOREA Day (氚�鞗岉偆 頃滉淡鞚� 雮�) Celebration.
Interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator Jeff Zimpel composes site-specific installations, inviting creative participation from those who encounter his Living Studio. Zimpel taught art and design at the secondary level and now engages college students throughout the Midwest. Currently, he works with Arts @ Large as Artist in Residence Curator, and just completed his second book, Feed the Muse (September 2025).
Geo Rutherford is a Wisconsin-based artist known for her work on the Great Lakes. Her 鈥淪pooky Lakes鈥� TikTok series, launched in 2020, gained viral popularity. With over 1.8 million followers, she鈥檚 praised by educators and parents for inspiring kids to explore science, history, and the environment.
Are you a high school student with a passion for the Arts? Whether you鈥檙e interested in Studio Art, Design, Art Education or Digital Arts, we have an exciting and informative event just for you. It鈥檚 called 鈥淢aking Your Mark: A Day in the Life of an Art & Design Major,鈥� and it鈥檚 completely FREE.
Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator who鈥檚 practice fuses personal narratives with historical research to address broader structural inequalities based on gender and class. Ballard teaches at 51猎奇 and is a recipient of the 2025 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.
Ceci Tejeda鈥檚 family roots are from Michoac谩n, Mexico, which is why she has Purepecha blood in her veins. Ever since she was a young girl, she鈥檚 admired her culture. She creates Alebrijes made of 鈥渃artoneria,鈥� a unique and traditional papier-m芒ch茅 technique from Mexico City. Tejeda also creates large-sized pieces that support various social justice movements and activism using the same method.
Dan Grzeca is a Chicago-based artist and printmaker known for thousands of illustrations, hand-silkscreened prints and posters for bands like The Black Keys, Iron and Wine, Built to Spill, Ween and The Decemberists. His studio and shop is called Ground Up Press.
Worlds Within: Midwestern Microcultures is a photography exhibition curated by Peck School of the Arts Advanced Photography Students currently enrolled in ART 452: Contemporary Issues in Photography.
Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator, and Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in major museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and Walker Art Center. She co-runs The Suburban (Milwaukee) and The Poor Farm (Little Wolf, WI), and is a 2025 Mary L. Nohl Fellow.
Students who received scholarships in the previous year are invited to display work in this exciting exhibition that spans a wide range of mediums and topics from emerging artists.
Xuan Ye blends art, music, and technology through improvisation and computation to create software, installations, and performances that explore dissonance and meaning. Their work has appeared at MOCA Toronto, Venice Architecture Biennale, UCCA Shanghai, MUTEK Montreal, and more.
This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the vibrant intersections of creativity and technology, connecting the Milwaukee community with the next frontier of artistic expression.
Wes Larsen is an assistant professor of design at 51猎奇. His work spans graphic art, performance, writing and publishing, focusing on obfuscation and irreverence to explore meaning. He uses diverse print and media methods and previously ran the indie design studio Tocco in Fort Worth, Texas.
Featuring handmade works from students in Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Ceramics, Photography, Digital Fabrication, and Design & Visual Communication.
A semiannual聽exhibition showcasing the work of graduating students in the BA and BFA programs. The exhibition traditionally takes place at聽the end of fall and spring semesters.
Linda Fleming, born 1945 in Pittsburgh, is a renowned sculptor and educator. Location is vital to her work which comes from three studios: a geodesic dome at Libre artist community in Colorado, Wall Spring in Nevada鈥檚 Smoke Creek Desert, and The Brewery in Benicia, CA, where she creates most of her large-scale sculptures.
Join us for an exhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses taught by Peck School of the Arts faculty Jamie Bertsch and Kyoung Ae Cho. The Department of Art & Design hosts an opening reception on Friday, February 6 from 5-7 p.m.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya鈥檚 photography explores the studio as a performative space, focusing on intimate, creative exchanges. His work has been shown at the Studio Museum Harlem, MoMA, and MCA Chicago. He won the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and lives in Los Angeles.
Artists Nathaniel Stern, a 51猎奇 Professor of Art and Engineering, and Sasha Stiles, who has a concurrent solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, independently developed this groundbreaking exhibition illuminating the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent.