Michal ann carley
After earning her MA and MFA degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Michal Ann Carley was Curator of Art at the UWM Art Museum and Director of the NML Galleries and a professor of art and art history at Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin. While a painter for decades, she shifted to kilnformed and torchworked artglass in 2001 and began blacksmithing and sculpting in iron in 2009. In Bloomington, she is deeply immersed in the arts community and actively participates on numerous nonprofit boards and organizations, including service as the President of the Indiana Limestone Symposium, the steering committee of the Bloomington Open Studio Tour, and grant reviewer and the Artist Entrepreneurship Resources Group of the Indiana Arts Council and is Art Contributor for the Ryder magazine. An active educator, Carley taught Arts Management for 5 years in the O’Neill School at IU, torchworking at the Bloomington Creative Glass Center, and in her own studios.Frank Lewis
While Frank Lewis has always been a practicing artist, he also has served in many roles as an arts professional over his long career: museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago and Wriston Art Museum Director at Lawrence University; as an art critic for national magazines and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper and as Editor in Chief of Metalsmith Magazine; and has been a professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UWM Milwaukee, Lawrence University, and is now positioned in Arts Administration at the O’Neill School at Indiana University. Throughout, Frank has created art in mixed mediums, employing oil painting, photography, computer graphics, and sculptures in wood, glass, and metal.After relocating to Bloomington, the couple designed and built Luna Song Design where they maintain steel forging and fabrication, glass, woodworking, and teaching studios.
