Mike Driscoll is an Artist/Educator working in Milwaukee, WI. As an Educator, he has taught students in every grade from kindergarten to adults. He has taught traditional fine arts, graphic design, 3D modeling, film, woodworking, emerging technologies and engineering. He believes in empowering people to learn through the act of making and engaging with their ideas. 

Emily Everson attended college at UW- Milwaukee where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking. Emily worked in special education at Whitnall High School before returning to UWM to earn a Post Baccalaureate in Art Education through the teacher certification program. She is now teaching art at South Milwaukee High School. Emily believes that art is not an isolated discipline, but that art encompasses all disciplines. Her approach to teaching focuses on creating a community of learners where the teacher acts as a facilitator, allowing students to become self-efficacious and inquisitive critical thinkers. 

Carrie Kim is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator, curator, arts administrator, and museum professional living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned a BFA in Art Education with a minor in Art History at UW-Milwaukee in 2004, and an MA in Visual Studies from Cardinal Stritch University in 2010. 

Through her Ladies of America Series, Carrie creates memorial imagery of unsung heroines, fabulous broads, and tough ladies. By portraying her subjects in graphite on traditionally gendered, worn craft objects which deteriorate and fade over time, the work becomes ephemeral and precious ̶ much like a memory. 

Carrie has dedicated her life to empowering and connecting learners of all ages and abilities through the arts. She has an extensive art education and arts programming and background, including experience in public and private schools and universities, arts organizations, and museums across the Midwest. 

Liz works as an art teacher and union building representative in MPS and focuses on culturally relevant teaching practices and community engagement through art making. In her art practice, she focuses on collage, photography, drawing and painting– drawing from visual culture, the internet, and other sources for images to rearrange and draw.

Chris Lois began his career as an art educator after graduating from UWM in 2005. He has taught at Westosha Central High School, Kettle Moraine Middle School, Dousman Elementary and is currently teaching at Mukwonago High School, where he has been for the past ten years. He has instructed various levels of drawing, painting, ceramics, digital photography, art metals and AP Studio Art. Chris is also a practicing artist whose focus is on illustration. He has self-published several picture books that are centered around his love of animals. Chris’s work can also be found in the Brooklyn Art Library.  

www.chrislois.com

Instagram: @chris__lois

Shannon Molter is an educator, sculptor, and designer. In her studio, Shannon’s work is precisely constructed with castoff materials from high embodied energy processes, whose histories span cultures. The artworks are often driven by personal, environmental experiences positioned within a conversation about consumption and stories of labor. In the classroom, Shannon works passionately to grow empathy, curiosity and encourage the discovery of personal voice. She believes meaningful ways of learning embrace differences in experience, skill, interests and a deeply interdisciplinary setting. Shannon teaches that by making art, one can actively practice creating the future one wishes to live within. 

www.shannonleemolter.com

@shannon_lee_studios

SYMPHONY SWAN uses the continuity of line, solid colors, a passion for storytelling and the experience of the Black woman to visually communicate the multifaceted sides to woman(mother)hood in her art. Being Black and a Mother while living in America informs her lens on expression. Becoming a mother broadened her eyes. But it also transformed and. deepened her understanding of her self separate from the then new role of mother. She is tries to visually tell the story of vulnerability and realness, bringing fourth topics that are rarely talked about publicly. She’s most attracted to the those transparent stories told on social media and is innately interested in the commonality of that shared experience when shared on social media. 

Each work captures a piece of what it means, from her perspective, to be a Black woman. One way she she propels her storytelling is with Hair and other physical adornments. She loves using contour line to help build compositions that explore the good, bad, indifferent, hidden and showcased sides to her experience.  

SYMPHONY SWAN is a Milwaukee based painter, mixed media and street art Artivist (arts + activist). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts with teacher certification. 

She serves her community by working with young people in a K4-8th grade urban charter school as the art teacher and, by serving as the co-founder and creative director of BlankSpace MKE. BlankSpace MKE is an urban arts co-operative focusing on providing artistic opportunities and work space for urban creatives.