Artists' Reception: Echoes from the Arc and Wide Eyed

Jerry Butler received his M.S. in Art Education from Jackson State University. After moving to Madison to teach middle school, he received MFA, MSLA, and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Butler also attended Harvard University’s Summer Institute for Transformational Leadership in Education. He served as a K-12 art teacher for the Madison Metropolitan School District for many years before becoming an Associate Dean at Madison College. Butler has served on the Kennedy Center Arts Alliance Network Board and on the faculty at Central Connecticut State University, and has created public art works in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, and Connecticut.

Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist routinely employing systems-based strategies within transmedia narrative projects. He received his MFA in Photography from UW-Milwaukee in 2008, and a BAS in both English Literature and the History of Philosophy from Marquette University in 2001.

Horvath’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows at venues including: The Print Center (Philadelphia), FIESP Cultural Centre (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Gyeonggi Art Center (Suwon, South Korea), OFF Piotrkowska (Lodz, Poland), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland), the Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee), INOVA (Milwaukee), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Johalla Projects (Chicago), and The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee). His work is currently held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, and is included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Horvath currently teaches in the New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.