Andrea Skyberg

This was my first week working with West Side Academy’s 1st-3rd graders and I was so impressed with the work they did! I explained to them the residency and read

I just saw the exhibit Life Cycles at the Gallery@Large. It’s a wonderful show with some pretty powerful messages. I loved the quote above my pieces from the CommuniTree book – Happiness

Student artists explore nature’s life cycles at Arts@Large exhibit October 24, 2013 by Maria Corpus … Among the many projects on display [at the Arts @ Large Life Cycles exhibit] are shadow boxes created

November 1, 3:45pm at the Wauwatosa Library The books of Andrea Skyberg and M.W. Greer, the husband-and-wife team behind Wooden Nickel Press, feature artwork created in collaboration with students from

I’m so excited to hear that Squircle won a Moonbeam Award! Every year I keep an eye on these awards to pick books for my own personal library, and now

It’s pretty cool to see two of my books and Michael’s new book make the Top Sellers list at Boswell Book Company! WHAT SOLD AT BOSWELL FOR THE WEEK ENDING

Thank you to everyone who came to help us celebrate the launch of my husband, Michael’s new book The Eyes of India! We had so much fun presenting our books

  Squircle Reviewer: Alice Berger Evie sets out into the forest to catch a squirrel. She soon becomes frustrated and impatient, so a duck explains how flapping her wings –

The Eyes of India by M.W. Greer Michael has been working on his mid-grade novel for a couple of years and we’re excited that in a short time it will

I’ve been enamored with Emery Blagdon since I first learned of his work back in a graduate folk art class. There is something about his eyes, face, and of course

CommuniTree available June 5th, 2013! Check out the Youtube trailer/making of CommuniTree About CommuniTree: On the surface we look like individuals, but hidden below, like the roots of the great

I’ve been working with Tippecaone & Dover schools, which will soon merge to form Parkside School for the Arts & Humanities, to create a picture book about community. For the

After writing my second book, Squircle, I thought a lot about how I could create the artwork to elaborate on the idea of interconnectedness, which is a main message in

Students created Ragadoodles (small dolls) out of masking tape and a other materials and created a small book that accompanies their Ragadoodle. These books used inventive words and figurative language

School: St John the Evangelist 1st-4th grade students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Students created Mola designs which were modeled after the Molas created by the Kuna Woman from Panama. Each student represented

School: St John the Evangelist 5th -8th grade students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Students created Pipsqueak characters out of masking and duct tape, similarly to that of my children’s book, Snickeyfritz.

School: Whitman School Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Inspired by outsider artist, Emery Blagdon, the 1-6th graders created a Healing Machine out of aluminum, found metal, wire and beads.  Over the course of this project,

School: Whitman Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg 1st – 6th grade students created an 8-foot tall Diversity Tree by covering a cardboard tube is paper cut profile portraits in the style

  Schools: Whitman School & St John the Evangelist Educating Artist: Andrea skyberg Throughout the ages humans have used costume & masks to communicate ideas. Creating Big Heads modeled after

Organization: Next Door Foundation: Leaders of Tomorrow Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg The Leaders of Tomorrow (1st – 8th grade students) worked with me to create Pipsqueak characters out of masking

School: Cooper School 1st Grade Students Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Cooperating Teachers: Roxanne Reszel & Katherine MacKenzie Funded by: Arts@Large Can your face tell a story without you even saying

Project: Milwaukee County Zoo Fantastic Forest of Holiday Trees School: Cooper Elementary Student Council Continent: Arctic Educating Artist: Andrea Skyberg Cooperating Teachers: Dawn Bigalk, Chris McCoy, Jackie Pollman Funded by: Arts@Large Inspired