BEATE MINKOVSKI | beatem.wixsite.com/beateminkovski
Beate Minkovski is the co-founder and former executive director of Woman Made Gallery established in Chicago in 1992. During its 30-year history, WMG has shown the work of more than 9000 women and non-binary artists from the national and international community in over 435 exhibitions. Minkovski retired in December 2014 and continues to serve as a volunteer in both program and managerial capacity and on WMG’s Board of Directors.
She has curated exhibitions not just for WMG, but for various arts organizations, including the Women’s Caucus for Art, The Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, and The Art Center in Highland Park, Illinois. She is the 2006 CWCA award recipient for achievements in the arts and has received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA).
SARAH KREPP | www.sarahkrepp.com/
Sarah Krepp has shown her interdisciplinary artwork in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Her work is included in many corporate and private collections throughout North America, (which include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Rockford Art Museum, Brauer Museum of Art, General Electric Corporation headquarters, McDonald’s Corporation headquarters, Harris Bank, and Continental Bank). She was represented by Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago IL, and Sana Monica CA, for over 20 years.
Krepp has received many research awards including most recently the residency at Ceill Railaig, County Kerry Ireland, and several travel grants to do research in Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany and France.
With an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BS from Skidmore College NY, she is Professor Emeritus of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was Chair of the Painting Program.
And in 2002 she founded and is ongoing director of DIALOGUE CHICAGO, an interdisciplinary critique/seminar for visual artists, that brings together professional artists from painting to installation, performance to time arts. It has developed into an innovative artistic community.
Among her credits, she has curated many exhibitions including the following institutions: the Rockford Art Museum, Art Chicago International Expo, Governor’s State University, Gallery 175, the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland,) the Krannert Art Museum, Bridgeport Art Center, Beverly Art Center, Evanston Art Center, Betty Rymer Gallery (at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and I-Space Gallery (Chicago).