Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger is an American printmaker and book artist based in Milwaukee. She began her professional career teaching in the Elkhart Memorial High School art department, where she received the Sallie Mae Outstanding Beginning Teacher award. While teaching in Indiana, she co-chaired the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for the Indiana/Michigan region and taught summer courses through the Elkhart School Corporation's Gifted and Talented Program. She received her MFA in Studio art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2004 and a BS degree in visual arts education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in 1995. She is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Work Meuninck-Ganger is mostly known for her collaborations with new media artist Nathaniel Stern; their work combines various forms of traditional printmaking with video and machinima. As a duo, the artists "mount translucent prints and drawings on top of video monitors, which appear to bring moving images to life on paper." According to Chris Roper of South Africa's Mail and Guardian, "The work is funny, pretty and accessible, but it’s also complicated, surprising, exceedingly well crafted and rewards a long-term relationship." The works pay homage