State Board Members
The state board handles matters regarding all three chapters such as the newsletters, magazine, website, WVAAA, Perspectives, and the Biennial.
President | Jane Hostetler | Green Bay, WI president@wisconsinvisualartists.org
Treasurer | Patti Belbin | Milwaukee, WI treasurer@wisconsinvisualartists.org
Secretary | Brianna Cole | Madison, WI secretary@wisconsinvisualartists.org
Executive Director
Shannon Kupfer | Port Washington, WI director@wisconsinvisualartists.org
Shannon is an experienced Executive Director, Curator, and Artist. She has her BFA in Painting and Drawing from UW-Milwaukee and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design from OCAD in Toronto. She has taught studio art in several museums and art centers, has been Executive Director of a multidisciplinary art center in Wisconsin, and has been curating for 4.5yrs. In her personal art practice, she takes a multi-sensory and interdisciplinary approach to Mycology and art.
State Chairs
Chairs handle other tasks that are of statewide concern.
Tech/IT | Rosie Hartmann and Mary Tilton | Milwaukee and Madison, WI
Accounting | Michelle Dunn | Madison, WI
Historian | Victoria Tasch | Hartland, WI
Chapter Chairs
Each of the Chapters are represented by the chapter chair. Chapters hold the voting positions on the state board.
North Chapter Chair | Christine Style | Green Bay, WI
South Central Chapter Chair | Mary Tilton | Lake Mills, WI
Southeast Chapter Chair | Denise Hansen| Wauwatosa, WI