James Watrous Gallery

Jill Sebastian’s artistic practice has been formed by growing up in Midwestern steel towns, and she is committed to exploring relationships between nature and culture, material and language, environmental science and art. Her sculpture, drawings and installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and internationally. Her public art projects include a musical fence in New Orleans; an architecturally integrated literary project for the Milwaukee Convention Center (with Woodland Pattern Book Center); a streetscape (with Ken Saiki Design) for Madison, Wis.; a mosaic for the Genome Center at UW-Madison; and a sculptural pocket park among five baseball fields in Wick Park, Milwaukee. Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1985, City of Milwaukee Artist of the Year 1997 and Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. Sebastian is a Professor Emerita at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.  

Liz Bachhuber is a sculptor, installation artist and Professor of Fine Art (Frei Kunst) at the Bauhaus University-Weimar. Her research interests and artistic practice focus on the environment with a particular emphasis on the found object in art and the global implications of unbridled consumerism and the resulting garbage. In the tradition of Bauhaus University, she has a long history of working in the intersection of art and science and initiating collaborations with engineers, scientists and waste disposal experts.  

Since 1980, Bachhuber has shown site-specific public work and exhibited in museums, galleries and alternative spaces in the United States, Europe and Japan. Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Bachhuber lives and works in Weimar and Berlin.