Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Christiane Grauert – Wandering Folds
On display APRIL 15– August 24, 2026
Artist Talk and Reception: Friday May, 8th – 6pm to 8:30pm – Artist Talk at 6:30pm
Show Description: Whether traveling abroad or traversing familiar landscapes in the Milwaukee area, Christiane Grauert and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger sketch, print, revisit, archive, and actively reimagine their surroundings. Together, they reverently render and reconstruct observations and memories, transforming them into structural, architectural, and often meandering visual arrangements that transcend place and time.
Their collaborative practice draws on a deep well of global experience — observational drawings, photographs, and memories gathered across India, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, South Korea, and beyond. The duo describes their work as understanding place through the lens of what we know, what we've lived — a deeply personal reckoning with landscape, culture, and memory. In South Korea, they have studied Hanji (hand-made mulberry paper) and its many applications, using it to recreate spatial experiences that are at once awe-inspiring and quietly curious.
At the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, this collaborative vision finds new ground. Bridging their international perspectives with the architecture, natural setting, and surrounding landscape of the Wilson Center and nearby Mitchell Park, Grauert and Meuninck-Ganger invite visitors to draw their own connections — to recognize a familiar pattern or encounter an element of the work through a deeply personal memory. Their work offers a gentle reminder of what binds us: the universal human experience of moving through the world and making meaning of what we find there.
A Selection of works on exhibit
About the Artists:
Christiane Grauert is an American-born illustrator and pop-up/paper artist who grew up in Germany where she studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. After her graduation, she moved to Minneapolis, MN where she received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured in various national and international illustration and design competitions as well as exhibitions. She now lives and works in Milwaukee, WI and teaches as a Professor of Illustration at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Meuninck-Ganger's works on paper are included in private and public collections, including the Weisman Museum of Art, Saint Kate Arts Hotel (seed collection), Jeonbuk Museum of Art in South Korea, Northwestern Mutual, Target Corporation, and has been featured in contemporary publications, such as Andrea Ferber’s, Sustenance: Contemporary Printmaking Now, Richard Noyce’s, Printmaking Beyond the Edge, and Nathaniel Stern’s, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. Jessica earned a BS degree in Art Education from Ball State University and an MFA in Studio Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is currently an Associate Professor, Area Head of Printmaking and Book Arts, and Director of Graduate Studies in Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.