Vicki Milewski is an American Artist who captures inspiring experiences of nature, communities and cultures with painting, drawing, photography, film, words and music. Milewski’s celebrated and award-winning, artworks are internationally collected, exhibited and performed. Milewski’s oil paintings bridge realism and abstraction, her unaltered photos capture specific moments like emerging corn at 6:25am, her book arts include her poetry and creative nonfiction writings, her music is composed to express melodic atonality steeped in Charles Ives, her short films are breathtaking experiences of our natural world. She has several large art collections that span themes like the Badlands of South Dakota, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, hiking in Yellowstone National Park and more as well as art collections inspired by ideas from Chicago Architect Louis H. Sullivan and “Where Our Food Comes From” to name just a few. These compelling art collections express the healing potentials of our land, its people and cultures often making precise references to sites, history, philosophy, ontology and pop culture.
Selected Exhibitions of Vicki Milewski’s Art 2015
Bound and Unbound III at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion A Place Between Two Rocks, Altered Book from A White River Valley Collection
Solo Exhibition, Galaudet Gallery, Eau Claire, Wisconsin selections from Where Our Food Comes From Part One: The Receiving Jar Collection
Art of the Book at the Lower Link Gallery, Rochester, New York Flowers I Have Known and the Secrets they Have Shared with Me, Artist Poetry Book
Solo Exhibition, selections from My Ancestors Are Watching Collection at the Chicago Public Library, Beverly
Solo Exhibition, selections from “We’re alive too, with dreams of stars and moons.” Collection Environmental Project with the Hungarian Multicultural Center with Exhibitions in 4 locations in Texas, USA and 8 locations in Hungary, EU
My Medicine Part Two: Dancing with Horses Galaudet Gallery, Eau Claire, Wisconsin selections from Badlands Roads and A White River Valley Collections
The Yellow Book at Czong Institute for Contemporary Art South Korea Selections from “We’re alive too, with dreams of stars and moons.” Collection
Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival III A Place Between Two Rocks, a short film
Forming Function at EuroFurniture, Chicago Illinois selections from Badlands Roads, Where Our Food Comes From Part One: The Receiving Jar and The Chakras
Solo Exhibition, selections from Hunting with Louis Sullivan (part one) Collection Galaudet Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Artist Month, selections from My Ancestors Are Watching, Hunting With Louis Sullivan and Where Our Food Comes From Part One: The Receiving Jar
Beauty in Glass, Galaudet Gallery Eau Claire selections from Badlands Roads, Where Our Food Comes From Part Two: Water and The St. James Collection
Education:
Ongoing Graduate Classes in Education and Music
1992 Bachelor in the Arts Degree—Roosevelt University, English, Education, Music
1980-90 Apprenticeships with Ivan Albright, Sharon Ott and Tom Forsythe
Professional Employment
2008-present Adjunct College Instructor at various colleges and Professional Artist
2000-2008 CITF Director of Educational Programming and Microwave Transmissions
1992—2000 Du Sable High School, CPS, Director & Founder: School of Radio/ Television Broadcasting
1989—1991 Honeywell (Bull) Engineer Liaison for computer system installations
Certifications:
2014 Sustainable Sites, Building Science, Energy Systems, Low-Impact Living Certifications
2009 Wilderness First Responder Certification
2008 Naturalist Certification
2007 Cooperative Learning Certificate from the University of Minnesota
1999 State of Illinois Approved Provider of Professional Development Activities #102241
1997 Studio Production Certificate from Chicago’s Cable Access Network
1992 State of Illinois Type 09 Teaching Certificate in English and Music Certificate #1426215
The artist has studios in Chicago and in Wisconsin. Please visit http://vickimilewski.wix.com/vmartist#!cv/c10fk for more information about this Contemporary Artist’s works.
