Education
2016 MFA Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2006 BS Elementary and Secondary Education, Summa Cum Laude, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota
Selected Exhibitions
2018 The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Recall, Remake, Reduce: Women of Washington County, West Bend Community Memorial Library, West Bend, Wisconsin
2017 The Art of Collage & Assemblage, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
Collective Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Indiana Green, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
Faculty Biennial, Marian Gallery, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016 The New Republic: Nowheres, 314: Ripon College Project Space, Ripon, Wisconsin (solo)
The New Republic: Somewheres, Dr. Scholl Gallery, Marmion Academy, Aurora, Illinois (solo)
Low Residency MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015 The Art Room, KMLHS, Jackson, Wisconsin (solo)
Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014 Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Creativity Heals, NAMI Fundraiser, Stonefly Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Shorelines, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Mequon, Wisconsin
Attraction/Abstraction, Art Bar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
January Art Jamboree, Hilton Garden Inn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2012 Member Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
WAEA Member Show, Effjay Projekts Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Residencies
2017 Lighthouse Youth Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Boys & Girls Club of Washington County, Wisconsin
2016 Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
2010 Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Curatorial Projects
2018 The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2013 TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2011 Minds That Think Alike, University of Wisconsin-Washington County, West Bend, Wisconsin
Honors & Awards
2017 Finalist, Pfister Artist in Residence
2016 Finalist, Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists
2012 Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Featured Artist, UW-Washington County Winter Arts Festival
Panel Discussions
2017 femTALK: The Power of Poetry, Material Studios + Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
The Navigators, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MARNsalon III: Edgar Endress, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Publications
2017 “Edgar Endress” MARNsalons, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
“You Are Here” Viator, Issue 2, Viator Project
2011 “Students Turn Tragedy into Something Good” West Bend Daily News, September 10
“‘Artists who Teach’ on display” West Bend Daily News, January 26
Academic Experience
2018- Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art), Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017- Adjunct Professor of Art & Humanities (Systems of Drawing; Culture, Intersectionality & Humanity), Milwaukee Institute of Art
and Design
2017- Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art History, Drawing), Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Academic Service
2013-17 KML Schools Art Curriculum Committee Chair, Kettle Moraine Lutheran Schools, Jackson, Wisconsin
2012-13 Private Schools Representative, Wisconsin Art Education Association Board of Directors
Selected Presentations and Lectures
2017 “Breaking the Grid and Other and Other Such Specimens of Ordinary Experimentation in the Prosaic Verse of the New
(re)Public” Artist Talk, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2016 “Not Knowing: Thesis Presentation as Poem” Thesis Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2015 “Alejandro Cesarco & Visual Indexing: An Imaginative Encounter between an Image, a Person, and Some Words”
Colloquium Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014 “Slow Looking: Cultivating Critical Thinking, Communication, & Community,” Wisconsin Art Education Association Fall
Conference
“The Text Paintings of Glenn Ligon: Representation and Abstraction among Other Words and Things,” Colloquium
Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2012 “Don’t Gut the Art Budget,” Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Writings
2017 “Realpolitik,“ 3rdCoast4thWave, Vol 1. No. 1, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016 “The New (re)Public: The [totally queer] Annexation of AbEx Territory,” Written Thesis, John M. Flaxman Library Thesis
Repository, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014 “Common Core in Context: Art Education” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Looking Within: A Wisconsin Artist, the Environment, and My Art Students” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
2013 “Not the Same River” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Curriculum, Exhibitions, and Art Club: Success in and out of the Classroom” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Using Note-taking to Enhance Literacy” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“It Starts with Integration” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
2012 “Un-slumping Yourself” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Contemporary Art in the Contemporary Classroom: How the diaspora will help your diverse students” Art Times,
Wisconsin Art Education Association
2016 MFA Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2006 BS Elementary and Secondary Education, Summa Cum Laude, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota
Selected Exhibitions
2018 The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Recall, Remake, Reduce: Women of Washington County, West Bend Community Memorial Library, West Bend, Wisconsin
2017 The Art of Collage & Assemblage, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
Collective Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Indiana Green, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
Faculty Biennial, Marian Gallery, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016 The New Republic: Nowheres, 314: Ripon College Project Space, Ripon, Wisconsin (solo)
The New Republic: Somewheres, Dr. Scholl Gallery, Marmion Academy, Aurora, Illinois (solo)
Low Residency MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015 The Art Room, KMLHS, Jackson, Wisconsin (solo)
Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014 Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Creativity Heals, NAMI Fundraiser, Stonefly Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Shorelines, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Mequon, Wisconsin
Attraction/Abstraction, Art Bar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
January Art Jamboree, Hilton Garden Inn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2012 Member Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
WAEA Member Show, Effjay Projekts Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Residencies
2017 Lighthouse Youth Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Boys & Girls Club of Washington County, Wisconsin
2016 Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
2010 Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Curatorial Projects
2018 The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2013 TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2011 Minds That Think Alike, University of Wisconsin-Washington County, West Bend, Wisconsin
Honors & Awards
2017 Finalist, Pfister Artist in Residence
2016 Finalist, Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists
2012 Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Featured Artist, UW-Washington County Winter Arts Festival
Panel Discussions
2017 femTALK: The Power of Poetry, Material Studios + Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
The Navigators, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MARNsalon III: Edgar Endress, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Publications
2017 “Edgar Endress” MARNsalons, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
“You Are Here” Viator, Issue 2, Viator Project
2011 “Students Turn Tragedy into Something Good” West Bend Daily News, September 10
“‘Artists who Teach’ on display” West Bend Daily News, January 26
Academic Experience
2018- Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art), Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017- Adjunct Professor of Art & Humanities (Systems of Drawing; Culture, Intersectionality & Humanity), Milwaukee Institute of Art
and Design
2017- Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art History, Drawing), Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Academic Service
2013-17 KML Schools Art Curriculum Committee Chair, Kettle Moraine Lutheran Schools, Jackson, Wisconsin
2012-13 Private Schools Representative, Wisconsin Art Education Association Board of Directors
Selected Presentations and Lectures
2017 “Breaking the Grid and Other and Other Such Specimens of Ordinary Experimentation in the Prosaic Verse of the New
(re)Public” Artist Talk, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2016 “Not Knowing: Thesis Presentation as Poem” Thesis Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2015 “Alejandro Cesarco & Visual Indexing: An Imaginative Encounter between an Image, a Person, and Some Words”
Colloquium Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014 “Slow Looking: Cultivating Critical Thinking, Communication, & Community,” Wisconsin Art Education Association Fall
Conference
“The Text Paintings of Glenn Ligon: Representation and Abstraction among Other Words and Things,” Colloquium
Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2012 “Don’t Gut the Art Budget,” Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Writings
2017 “Realpolitik,“ 3rdCoast4thWave, Vol 1. No. 1, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016 “The New (re)Public: The [totally queer] Annexation of AbEx Territory,” Written Thesis, John M. Flaxman Library Thesis
Repository, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014 “Common Core in Context: Art Education” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Looking Within: A Wisconsin Artist, the Environment, and My Art Students” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
2013 “Not the Same River” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Curriculum, Exhibitions, and Art Club: Success in and out of the Classroom” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Using Note-taking to Enhance Literacy” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“It Starts with Integration” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
2012 “Un-slumping Yourself” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
“Contemporary Art in the Contemporary Classroom: How the diaspora will help your diverse students” Art Times,
Wisconsin Art Education Association
