THANK YOU to Kimberly Clark for empowering the Art is Her exhibition series at the Trout Museum of Art!
Because of you, TMA’s atrium gallery has been dedicated to spotlighting female-identifying artists from Wisconsin with their own solo exhibitions since 2020. Thank you for your support!
Catch up on the women who will be or were on exhibit in 2023.
Soirsce Artemis Moriarty
Claire Erickson | Jan – Feb
Claire Kat Erickson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Wisconsin. Primarily working in acrylic gouache- as well as installations, embroidery, video art, oil, large scale murals and sculpture. Erickson’s work represents serious, sarcastic, political, heartbreaking and beautiful things, people, places. Surreal- not surreal. Her work extends to show contractions inherent in the systems we live in.
Ariana Vaeth | March – April
Ariana Vaeth is a Baltimore-raised artist focused on contemporary narrative through the self-portrait. Her work presents an entanglement of tender interactions between friends, family, and chosen-family.
Vaeth received her undergraduate degree from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and she teaches Interdisciplinary Drawing at Beloit College.
Ariana Vaeth primarily paints self-portraits and portraits of those close to her, resulting in an autobiographical collection of works.
Callie Kiesow | May – July
Callie Kiesow received her AAS degree from the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley in Menasha, WI and a B.A. from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. She is now an artist living and working in Milwaukee, WI, and an artist in residence at Var Gallery. She works primarily with charcoal and plaster and focuses on the human form. Her work contains unrecognizable figures that exist in dreamlike environments that are removed from reality. The figures are draped in bed sheets and are always caught mid-action in order to reflect specific psychological and physiological states. Figures depicted without a recognizable identity force the viewer to engage emotionally and suddenly become a part of the narrative. The work presents a duality of playfulness and tension within spaces that we generally see as confined, intimate, and familiar.
Marcia G. Thompson | Jul 3 – Sept 3
Marcia is a retired art teacher, having taught at every level from first grade through college. Since retiring, she has been making art in my home workspace, Fishtail Studio. Her interests have included weaving and other forms of textile art as well as collage and printmaking. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as an art history major as well as Winona State University and the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Currently, she works primarily with linoleum, drypoint, and monotype printing.
Gao Kia Moua | Sept 4 – Oct 29
Abby Gammons is an emerging artist based in Little Chute, Wisconsin. She recently started working with fiber art by accident in 2016 while decorating her room. She found inspiration on Pinterest that spoke to her Scandinavian and Mid Century-modern style and it had a macramé weaving in it. Back then she didn’t know what it was or how to pronounce it but loved how it brought a soft and warm presence to the room. She experiences meditation through each movement while practicing 3-4 knots in a variation of patterns and textiles. Her style of work today is described as Modern Macramé with a nod to the 70s for its textured flair. Abby’s textile art has been featured in the Trout Museum of Art Made to Order exhibit in 2020, private residences, and in weddings around Wisconsin.
Jamie Jacobson | Oct 30 – Dec 31
Marcia is a retired art teacher, having taught at every level from first grade through college. Since retiring, she has been making art in my home workspace, Fishtail Studio. Her interests have included weaving and other forms of textile art as well as collage and printmaking. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as an art history major as well as Winona State University and the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Currently, she works primarily with linoleum, drypoint, and monotype printing.
Kimberly-Clark was named a Top 75 Companies for Executive Women by Seramount for a sixth consecutive year.
We’re so grateful to host these exhibitions celebrating female artists with a company who also supports women. Here are some statistics that motivate the Trout Museum of Art to profile female-identifying artists.
- Nearly half (45.8%) of visual artists in the United States are women; on average, they earn 74¢ for every dollar made by male artists. —National Endowment for the Arts 2019
- A data survey of permanent collections by the 18 most prominent art museums in the U.S. found that out of over 10,000 artists represented, 87% are male and 85% are white. —Public Library of Science 2019
- In a study of 820,000 exhibitions across the public and commercial sectors in 2018, only one third were by women artists. —The Art Newspaper 2019
- Only 13.7% of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America are women. —artnet News
We hope you’ll visit our Art is Her artists in 2023 at the Trout Museum of Art!
Browse all previous Art is Her artists, 2022 – 2020!
