Jill Sebastian Archives - Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters

Jill Sebastian

Jill Sebastian’s artistic practice has been formed by growing up in Midwestern steel towns, and she is committed to exploring relationships between nature and culture, material and language, environmental science and art. Her sculpture, drawings and installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and internationally. Her public art projects include a musical fence in New Orleans; an architecturally integrated literary project for the Milwaukee Convention Center (with Woodland Pattern Book Center); a streetscape (with Ken Saiki Design) for Madison, WI; a mosaic for the Genome Center at UW-Madison; and a sculptural pocket park among five baseball fields in Wick Park, Milwaukee. Among her awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1985, City of Milwaukee Artist of the Year 1997 and Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. Jill Sebastian is a Professor Emerita at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.