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This month we're proud to welcome Michaleen Melby as our featured artist at Bates Art Bar — a Wisconsin-born, Midwest-rooted artist whose work pushes the boundaries between fine art and craft in ways that are impossible to walk past without stopping. About Michaleen Michaleen grew up in Wisconsin and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 2015, where she also studied Environmental Studies. Her practice spans an unusually wide range of mediums and traditions...

This month Bates Art Bar is thrilled to feature Courtney Fishback, the Wisconsin artist behind Forkin Creations — a body of work that refuses to stay in one lane and is all the better for it. About Courtney Courtney Fishback is a visionary artist inspired by the world immediately surrounding her — the Lake Superior shoreline, the natural world, the objects and materials that most people overlook. Her practice spans an impressively wide range of mediums: original paintings, mixed-media...