MOWA | Fellowships, Residencies, & Opportunities for Artists

Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

Learn about annual opportunities for artistic growth and support through the Miller Dome House Residency, the Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel Residency, the Worm Farm Institute, Mary Nohl Fellowship, and MOWA’s returning residency program in Luxemburg. …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

JIM SHIELDS Saturday, April 8 | 2:00 Jim Shields is the visionary architect behind MOWA’s modernist Mothership. Celebrated for his innovative, sustainable, and destination-making design, Shields is uniquely attuned to the ways that structures shape …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

DELLA WELLS Saturday, May 20 | 11:00 Self-taught artist Della Wells sees herself as both a storyteller and an artist. Although her professional career in the arts began at the relatively late age of 42, …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

MICHELE GRABNER Saturday, June 17 | 11:00am Michele Grabner is an artist-alchemist who transforms humble domestic objects into high art. Her hypnotic variations on the theme of gingham have won the Wisconsin native an uber-prestigious …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

TOM UTTECH Saturday, July 15 | 11:00 Tom Uttech needs no introduction. The elder statesman of Wisconsin art has long enraptured viewers with otherworldly paintings of the natural world at its most magical.

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

JASON S. YI Saturday, August 5 | 11:00am Raised in South Korea until the age of eleven, Jason S. Yi’s bi-cultural background inspires his boundary-crossing artistic practice. His use of humble, utilitarian materials like packing …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

FRED STONEHOUSE Saturday, September 23 | 11:00am Fred Stonehouse’s paintings marry wide-ranging art-historical influences with inscrutable symbols according to a strangely compelling dream logic. The bravado Neo-Surrealism of his work has secured Stonehouse a place …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

VAUGHAN LARSEN Saturday, October 7 | 11:00am Vaughan Larsen’s photography defies dichotomies. The non-binary artist situates themself at the center of their work to explore the fluidity of identity and the public reception of non-conforming …

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Museum of Wisconsin Art 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

LON MICHELS Saturday, November 18 | 11:00am After working with renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson in New York City during the 1980s, Lon Michels returned to his home state of Wisconsin, where he developed a vibrant …