Andrea Skyberg

If you’re interested in having me visit your school, please email to schedule a program. I love visiting schools to share my experiences as an author and an illustrator. I have a number

I just installed the 9′ x 33′ tree mural for the Milwaukee Environmental School, which includes almost 500 metal engraved leaves. Each leaf was created by a student as either a self portrait

Last night we had the opening for our Rainforest, Arctic, and Antarctica exhibit at Manitoba school. The K5 & 1st grade students did such a great job as museum docents! You

Today on Tuesday Tours we’ll look inside the studio of artist and owner of Cosmic Butterfly Design Tia Chianti Richardson, who’s studio is part of the Kunzelmann-Esser artists lofts in Milwaukee—an apartment building that offers galleries and

We’re in for a special  Tuesday Tours today, because we have not one, but two fabulous artists! Kari Couture and Kim Loper share their studio in the Walker’s Point area of Milwaukee.

Please join us for the SE Area Meet-up at the Wauwatosa Library. October 1st from 10-3pm @ Wauwatosa Library 10-12pm Creating A Picture Book Dummy with Illustrator Deb Gross Creating book dummies

Today on Tuesday Tours Milwaukee-based artist Todd Mrozinski offers us a look inside his studio The Nut Factory, which he shares with his wife, artist Renee Bebeau. It is in this expansive studio space that

This week’s Tuesday Tours features the studio space of Rina Yoon, a Milwaukee based artist and Professor of printmaking at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. I’ve had the pleasure of showcasing Rina’s work in

Even though summer’s here, there’s no break for Shimmerling activities… and that’s a good thing! I hosted the Bigs & Littles from the Big Brothers and Sisters of Milwaukee at the gallery

This week on Tuesday Tours I’m featuring international artist, Colin Matthes, who bases out of Milwaukee, WI. One of the first shows I curated was Warning: Contains Graphic Images, and my call for artists brought

This week on Tuesday Tours I’m featuring Milwaukee artist Della Wells. I knew about Della before I ever personally met her because I was so inspired by her artwork. When I started curating for

In addition to creating the engraved feathers for Shimmerling, students from Bethune Academy and West Side Academy also created feathers to decorate their schools. I’m in the process of attaching

Michael and I are finalists for a city-wide grant that is offering funds to help activate spaces in Milwaukee and develop interactive art projects. We proposed a very interactive bookmaking

Over the past two weeks students in the 1st – 3rd grades at West Side Academy have been working on designing and engraving three metal feathers to be used on

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

Linda D’Acquisto created this great video that shows me talking about the pieces in the gallery exhibition, Threads That Connect, which was showcased at the Arts@Large gallery October 19, 2012

The Squircle Wish Banners were modeled after the Tibetan Prayer Flags which, traditionally come in sets of five colors representing the five elements, which are said to produce health and harmony.

This week I had four final author visits and art workshops with Garland school, Tippecanoe school, and Lincoln school in the gallery before the exhibition came down on January 9th.

Here is a video of the gallery exhibition, Threads That Connect: Fiber Art & Community, which features the artwork from Squircle.

A nice little piece from our neighborhood newspaper…

A nice article by Peggy Sue at the Shepherd Express –    http://expressmilwaukee.com/blog-8866-skybergs-threads-connect-art-community-at-artsalar.html

  Join me and my dear friend and awesome yoga instructor, Haley, as she leads a family yoga session based on the concepts of Squircle! It’s going to be a

What a beautiful opening reception! I had so much fun reconnecting with the teachers and the students that I worked with on this book project. The Arts@Large staff did a

Molly Snyder wrote a fabulous article about the book & exhibition! http://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/andreaskybergsquircle.html  

I’m so excited that Arts@Large will be showcasing the artwork that was created for the book, including many of the students appliqué banners as well as the large fabric murals!

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.