Don Meyer joined the Wisconsin Academy staff as business operations manager in June 2011. He began his accounting career working for Combustion Engineering Inc., establishing field offices at their various projects throughout the southwest. Don eventually settled in College Station, TX, where he worked as an auditor for a local CPA firm. He moved to Wisconsin in 1988 to establish the role of internal...

Jason A. Smith is the communications director of the Wisconsin Academy and editor of the organization's quarterly magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture, Wisconsin People & Ideas. Before joining the Wisconsin Academy in 2008, Jason was the managing editor of The Common Review, the quarterly magazine of the Great Books Foundation, and helped the storied nonprofit to develop...

Jody Clowes is exhibitions manager for the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery in Overture Center for the Arts, Madison. Prior to joining the Academy staff, Jody served as director of UW–Madison's Design Gallery, associate curator of decorative arts at Milwaukee Art Museum, and director of exhibitions at Detroit's Pewabic Pottery. Jody received an MA from the Winterthur Program...

Martha Glowacki, director of the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery, has been a curator, exhibition designer, and grantwriter/fundraiser for the Watrous Gallery since 2004. She previously was director of the Design Gallery at the UW–Madison (2000–2003). Martha has an MFA degree from UW–Madison and is a sculptor showing her work on a regional and national level. She is...