Michal ann carley
Michal Ann Carley earned her MA and MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also served as Curator of Art at the UWM Art Museum. She later became Director of the NML Galleries and Professor of Art and Art History at Cardinal Stritch University. A painter for decades, she expanded into kiln-formed and torch-worked glass in 2001 and into blacksmithing and iron sculpture in 2009. After twenty years of physically demanding practice that led to neurological injury, she returned to two-dimensional work, where her imagery continues to explore similar themes, now enriched with color, light, and gesture.Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Carley is an active educator and arts advocate. She has taught Arts Management at Indiana University’s O’Neill School, torchworking at the Bloomington Creative Glass Center, and workshops in her own studios. Certified in Lifelong Arts Creative Aging by the Indiana Arts Commission, she regularly teaches in older-adult communities in Bloomington and Martinsville. She served on multiple nonprofit boards including the Indiana Limestone Symposium (President), the Bloomington Open Studio Tour (steering committee), and the Artist Entrepreneurship Resources Group of the Indiana Arts Commission. She also writes on the arts for The Ryder magazine and serves as a grant reviewer and advocate for artists across Indiana.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 glass, woodworking, painting and collage and teaching studios.
