Andrea Skyberg

The Animal Within is a project in which students select an animal connected to their personality. Then they sculpt a large version of the head of that animal (which is

Mark & Meaning is a project in which students experiment with creating original symbols. They reflect on two major milestones in their lives—one that happened in early childhood and one

I’ve been working with Milwaukee Environmental Science Academy to create a new book this year. Over 200 kids along with the entire staff are working with me to write and illustrate

I’ve been working on a new residency with Manitoba school these past three weeks, creating animals and objects for their Coral Reef museum exhibit and their Rainforest exhibit. We had

Twenty-six Milwaukee Public School teachers designed an exhibit about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) as part of a Kid Curators® professional development experience that took place at Cardinal

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

I’ve been working at Manitoba school the last couple of months to help the K5 and 1st grade classes create a school museum, which will showcase their curriculum on the rain forest,

Part of the Toyota Grant that is funding the mural I’m doing with Milwaukee Environmental School also funds classes for parents, which they attend once a week. This past week I

Last spring I was lucky enough to have a joint exhibition with the legendary artist and author Faith Ringgold at the Arts@Large gallery featuring artwork from my newest picture book Shimmerling,

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

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with students from four different schools and sharing the story of my newest book Shimmerling. We did a little bit of meditation,

Back when I was an undergrad student at the Maryland Institute, College of Art I came across the work of Faith Ringgold and I fell in love with the imagery,

Pam Miller led some great Family Yoga workshops in the gallery based on my book Squircle. Adults and children explored the practice of Yoga, breath awareness, poses and movement, games, art and

‘The Making of Shimmerling’ is a behind the scenes look at how, with funding from Arts@Large, I worked with over 300 students in two Milwaukee Public Schools — West Side

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

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

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

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

I just finished a three week residency with Lincoln school where I worked with  kindergardeners and first graders to create quilting squares and banners. The first graders  created portraits and

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.