Artist Bio:

Kira Straub is a sculpture and installation artist who graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 2024 earning a BFA in Studio Art with concentrations in Sculpture, Ceramics, and Community Art. Straub recently completed a month-long residency at Penland School of Craft and their work has been included in shows across Wisconsin at Var Gallery, Trout Museum of Art, Center for Visual Arts Wausau, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Their artwork was displayed publicly for the first time in in Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2023 exhibition “Dear Nature” located at the 3rd St. Market Hall in downtown Milwaukee. For the past two years, Straub has been working as Studio Manager at a community art studio, Tooth + Nail, in Milwaukee where they spend their days arm deep in buckets of clay.