If you're a subscriber to the ArtMail Milwaukee e-newsletter, you get to see great local artists' work on a regular basis. Today, the newsletter features the work of 17 seniors from Milwaukee Public Schools' Reagan IB High School on the South Side.
"Reagan High School offers a uniquely challenging International Baccalaureate (IB) art program. Art courses are offered to students for four years and students within this program are seriously dedicated to developing their artistic talent and skills," the mailing says.
"All juniors and seniors within the IB art program participate in an annual gallery event. Their dynamic work is displayed in a professional gallery that is housed within Reagan High School. The public is invited to this venue each fall and spring to meet contributing artists and to witness, firsthand, the self-revelatory creations of Reagan High School's talented young artists."
The artists featured are Alisha Adams, Magdalena Bernal, Abida Bibi, Jacob Chase, Samer Ghani, Jessica Hernandez, Kathryn Hudson, Ryan Longworth, Aurelio Lopez, Miranda Mech, Chou Moua, John Rose, Sarah Sobye, David Weiner, Sherry Xiong, Mani Yang, Ting Ting Zhou.
Even if you aren't a subscriber to the free ArtMail e-newsletter, you can see the work on the ArtMail Web site.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
