Kate Mothes is an independent art writer and curator based in the Fox Valley. She is the founder of Young Space (yngspc.com) and its sibling project Dovetail (dovetailmag.com), with a small gallery called The Niche within Standard Projects in Hortonville, Wisconsin. Mothes earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an art history master’s from the University of Edinburgh, focusing her research on artist-run initiatives. Over the past ten years, Mothes has organized numerous DIY and collaborative exhibitions locally and further afield with a focus on emerging contemporary artists, most recently with Visual Arts Scotland, CARVALHO PARK in Brooklyn, NY, and David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, CO. She regularly presents on professional practices topics for young artists, is an editor with Chicago-based arts and culture publication Colossal, and regularly contributes to Arts Midwest’s Creativity News Desk. Find more of her work at katemothes.net.
Fred Stonehouse was born in 1960 in Milwaukee, WI. He received his BFA from UW Milwaukee in 1982. He had his first solo show in Chicago in 1983 and shows regularly in New York at Howard Scott Gallery and in Los Angeles with Koplin/DelRio. He has exhibited in Mexico, Amsterdam, Rome and Berlin. He has been the recipient of an NEA Arts Midwest Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Individual Artists Grant. He is currently an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin.