Jamie Ho

Jamie Ho is a lens-based artist from Fort Myers, FL. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and is currently pursuing her MFA in photography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ho has been featured in a variety of publications such as Booooooom, Float Magazine, and Fraction Magazine. She was part of 2017-18 Bridge Work: Madison, an emerging artist program, and has had solo exhibitions at Arts & Literature Laboratory (Madison, WI), and Watkins Gallery, Winona State University (Winona, MN). Ho has also Sahara West Library Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV). She is currently serving on Communication's Board of Directors as Vice President.

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Jenie Gao

Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. She specializes in social practice and impact projects, using mediums such as murals, public art, printmaking, and storytelling. She consults for organizations on best practices and systems centered on equity.

Prior to founding her business, Jenie worked not only in the arts industry, but also the public school and manufacturing sectors. Through her cross section of experiences, she has become attuned to how the design of organizations—from their hiring practices to programming—determines who has access to creativity, autonomy, leadership, and decision-making. Jenie advocates for fair treatment of labor as a path to equity and diversity in the arts and the greater community that the arts represent. She currently runs a 1,700 square foot production studio in Madison, Wisconsin, and has hosted 22 emerging artists and art students through her apprenticeship program.

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Jennifer Bastian

Jennifer Bastian is a photographer, social practice and fibers artist. Much of Bastian’s work is related to the labor of making family and making community. She is focused on comfort, tension, vulnerability, and contact.

Bastian received her BFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was one of two Dane County Emerging Artists for 2017-18 through Arts and Literature Laboratory and Dane Arts, and was the Artist-in-Residence at the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler for the months of August and September, 2017.

Bastian co-founded Madison, WI non-profit, all ages arts venue Communication in 2018. She currently serves as Director and Arts Manager.

You can hear a short interview about Bastian's art practice here or here and a longer interview here.

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