Jill Sebastian is a Milwaukee-based artist working in drawing, sculpture, and installation. In addition to her international showing record, Sebastian has also been awarded a variety of local/regional public art projects including, an architecturally integrated literary project for the Milwaukee Convention Center (now Baird Center), a streetscape for Madison, Wisconsin, and a mosaic for the Genome Center at UW-Madison. Among her honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1985, City of Milwaukee Artist of the Year 1997, Milwaukee “Woman of Influence” in 2010, and the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. Sebastian taught sculpture and public art for 34 years, first at University of Denver, and then Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Sebastian’s work is currently included in the Haggerty exhibition “Life Lines”.

Image: Jill Sebastian, American, b. 1950, MERaT (detail), 1980, Ink and color pencil on vellum paper mounted on museum board, 92.9.1, Gift of Kit Basquin, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University