In The Act

Andre Walton is a Milwaukee native who moved to Sheboygan and now sits on the Sheboygan Common Council, Mead Library Board of Trustees and is Executive Director of the nonprofit social justice organization Our Wisconsin Revolution. http://ourwisconsinrev.com/

Sarah Baughman is an artist, student and deeply curious person. Baughman, who grew up in Sheboygan, has spent the past decade working at Paradigm Coffee & Music and volunteering at Goodside Grocery. https://instagram.com/art.biscuits

Natasha L. Torry is a Wisconsin native who has been pursuing justice for the underrepresented in our community for over two decades. She is employed as a lawyer and municipal court judge, works hard as a mother of 5 children and plays at cooking, exploring nature and challenging herself with new adventures. Natasha believes that loving with an open heart is the only way to fully live this life. Sh...

Kathleen Quigley is a writer and massage therapist living in Wisconsin yet dreaming of Portugal. She has been published in Hypertext Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, The Seventh Wave, HerStry.blg, among others, and is currently completing a memoir. After pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, Kathleen took a hiatus to raise her son and run marathons. She loves all thin...

Karen Robison is a botanist, teacher, artist and co-founder of Two Fish Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Elkhart Lake. She creates mixed-media and found-object works that bring disparate materials into a balanced form. She can be found online at www.twofishgallery.net and https://www.facebook.com/TwoFishElkhartLake

Angela Ramey is the Performing Arts Program Director at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Originally from the Madison area, Angela holds her BA in Theatre from UW Madison and has been involved with performance and arts administration for the better part of her life. Angela has resided in Sheboygan with her co-hab for almost nine years and is a mother of two young daughters.

A clergyman in the United Church of Christ, he is among other things a husband, father, and friend. He is an author having written a novel, The Patch, a writer of stories and poems, was a professional singer, is an advocate of creative thought and expression, a promoter of fact-related experiences and of caring relationships with the world community of people and places.

Beth Lipman is a Sheboygan Falls-based artist whose sculptural practice generates from the Still Life genre, symbolically representing the splendor and excess of our current geological age and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth. Her works are a meditation on our relationship to Deep Time - a monumental time scale based on geologic events that minimizes human lives. Each installat...

Kay Jelinek is a mixed-media abstract artist based in Sheboygan who loves thinking and observing deeply and recombining everything into spontaneous art. She creates colorful artwork in the darkness of night, starting with a blank surface and no clear outcome in her mind. Jelinek’s work responds to many deeply imbedded images from close observation of nature, fractals, a love of music, poetry &...

Former Sheboygan Mayor Juan Perez is a self-taught artist who sets his own standards. Using light and shadow, he paints as his brush and paint direct him. Working from his Sheboygan studio, he is driven by the challenge of creating a three-dimensional painting using a blank canvas and several layers of paint. You can find him online at https://www.juanperezart.com/

Tom Rauwerdink is a graphic designer and artistic dabbler. He runs Eighty Art & Design which is a gallery and meeting space as well as an art and design studio. You can find him online at Eighty Art & Design's website .

Erika Block is a professional creative director, award-winning graphic designer, published author, and multi-media artist. She holds degrees in marketing communications, advertising, and digital media, with 20 years of experience in the art, music, print, television and film industries. Her work has been featured in the national media, including People Magazine , The View , Good Morning America ,...

Kim is a colorful mixed media artist with a passion for community and creativity. In 2020 she founded Hello Happiness Creativity Center, a nonprofit dedicated to providing creative supplies and experiences for everyone. You can find her on Facebook and on Instagram .

Kaitlynn Kiela recently co-founded the county’s first yoga co-op, Sheboygan County Yoga Co-op. She has spent the last ten years learning about yoga and mindfulness in our community. She can be found online at https://www.sheboygancountyyogacoop.com , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ShebCoYoCo/ , and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sheboygancountyyogaco.op/

Molly King received her BA in dance as well as her teaching certification at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. King is a registered yoga teacher [RYT 200] with Yoga Alliance. She received her MA in special education at Cardinal Stritch University. King has been teaching for the Étude Group schools for sixteen years. She is also the Senior Advisor for the Youth Dance program at the John Michae...

Jill is a creative person living a creative life. You can find her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jillbrotz/ .

Santino Laster is a public servant by trade. He’s the Public Safety Specialist for the Mead Library, and works diligently with the community— providing resources. He also is a board member for the Sheboygan Area School District.

Dan Weiss is a curious explorer of sound, nature, and the rhythms of life.  Native to Sheboygan, bisqued in Chicago, and strewn about the mountains of Missoula, Montana, Dan prefers the uncomfortable approach to finding something great and unexpected, and eventually comforting—some documentation of which can be found at the following links: soundcloud.com/a-dan-weiss soundcloud.com/hot-the-ca...

Anneliese Finke is a poet on the staff at Mead Public Library. Her work has appeared in a few literary journals, but you can also check it out on her website, https://anneliesefinkepoetry.com/ . Her fingers are permanently crossed for a book someday.

Kate Krause is a spacemaker and community connector. She tries to remedy things she's cranky about... ope, passionate about. You can find her online at http://www.paradigmvenue.com/ as well as on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/paradigmcoffeeandmusic/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/paradigm.coffeeandmusic/ and the FB group for Queer Potluck Sheboygan, which you can join at http...

Frank Juárez brings two decades of art education and arts management experience organizing local and regional art exhibitions, community art events, facilitating presentations, supporting artists through grant programs, and offering professional development workshops. Frank is in the forefront of promoting Wisconsin artists, as well as attracting regional, national, and international artists to co...

Charlie O'Connell is a musician and multi-media artist. He holds a degree for Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology from the Peck School of Arts. Charlie and partner Jordan Gottsacker own and operate a lifestyle shop called  Honey and Ace . Future Fern originated in 2015 as a space to house the growing collection of multimedia endeavors.

Jordan Gottsacker has been doing awkward robot dance moves through the interior design field since 2011. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and has been growing her own interior design practice and skill set with the partnership and guidance of other small businesses design firms, architects and contractors over the past decade. You can find her online at http://www.honeyand...

Toril Fisher studied painting and metals at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and completed her BFA at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington State. After a 28 year “delay” - 2019 marks the first year she has gone “all in” to pursue a full time career in art. You can find her website at http://torilart.com/ .

Michael Albert has been creating ART since his college days at New York University, where he studied business (BPA, 1984-1988). He is also the founder/owner of Sir Real, a brand of fruit juice & natural foods. He has a website at http://michaelalbert.com/ and can also be found on Facebook ( http://facebook.com/michael.albert.5815 ) and Pinterest ( http://pinterest.com/sirrealjuice/ ).