Creative Industries Discussion:
Michelle Grabner

SOU Meese Auditorium – Art Building (next to the SMA)
555 Indiana Street | Ashland OR 97520
FREE, and open to the public | FREE Parking

Join us on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 2 pm for a Creative Industries Discussion with our 2025 SOU VAST (Visiting Artist & Scholar in Teaching) resident and featured artist Michelle Grabner.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1962)
Lives and works in Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; and Waupaca County, WI

Michelle Grabner is a Wisconsin-based artist, writer, and curator. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture, and finds a creative center in operating across platforms and towards community. Her work has been the subject of several national museum surveys. She is presently represented by James Cohan, New York and Green Gallery, Milwaukee, among others.

Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art and the Senior Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has also held teaching appointments at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts—Bard College; Yale University School of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.

Learn more at michellegrabner.com