Tyanna Buie (She, Hers, Her)
A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Tyanna Buie received her BA from Western Illinois University, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buie has attended Artists-In-Residency programs, such as the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She has also maintained a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations while participating in Healthy Neighborhood Initiatives through public art produced for underserved neighborhoods in Wisconsin. In 2012, Buie received an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship and was the recipient of the 2015 Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the recipient of the prestigious 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship/Visual Arts, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, and the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor. Major institutions and private collections have acquired Buie’s works, and in 2020, Buie was selected to collaborate with Shepard Fairey on the “Voting Rights is Human Rights” mural in Milwaukee, WI. Buie’s work/curatorial work has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com, Newcity Chicago Cultural Magazine, and featured on Essay’d.com. Currently, Buie is an Assistant Professor/Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.