Adriana Barrios is a queer, biracial, Latina artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is an M.F.A. graduate from the UW-Madison.
Jennifer Bastian is a neurodivergent and disabled artist, arts administrator, and mother. All of Bastian's current bodies of work focus on grief, community, self discovery, and ritual. She uses the processes of analog photography, fibers work, publishing & community building to address those themes. Bastian looks to create objects and experiences that resonate with the human yearning for safety and acceptance.
Kayla Bauer is an artist working with photography, objects, and installation. She has earned her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Born in Fond du Lac, WI, Tom Berenz earned his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Berenz is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and lives and works in Milwaukee.
Randall Berndt is the former assistant curator at the James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts and was for years the director of the Wisconsin Academy Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin. He received an MFA in painting from UW-Madison in 1969 and has pursued the life of the artist mixed with the demands of the "real world" ever since.
Born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Mary Bero received her B.S. from Stout State University in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Largely self-taught, Bero is known for her assertive, embroidered miniature portraits. Her works are often mixed-media assemblages that incorporate embroidery, fiber art, fabric, and painting.
Siara Berry (Cudahy) is a sculptor working in a wide-array of mediums, ranging from wood to soil, concrete, and found objects. In 2015, Berry graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with a degree in Sculpture and Creative Writing. Berry is the recipient of the 2022 Career Advancement Grant awarded by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design and in 2023 was awarded the Mary Nohl Fellowship as an Emerging Artist.
Lois Bielefeld is a queer series-based artist working in photography, audio, video, and installation. Her work continually asks the question of what links routine and ritual to the formation of identity, personhood, and the development of meaning-making.
Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
Phone: 608.733.6633
James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25
