Artists in Residence
We bring different perspectives to the table, but we’re united by a love for purposeful work, thoughtful design, and real connection.
The Raven’s Wish Artist in Residence program is designed to support artists in a meaningful and intentional way by offering space, visibility, and community within a professional gallery setting.
Our Artists in Residence are more than featured exhibitors. It is an opportunity for deeper creative engagement and a season dedicated to exploration, growth, and connection with our local art community.
Heather Hansen
Heather Hansen is a full-time studio potter and mother of two based in Janesville, Wisconsin. Working primarily in stoneware clay, she creates functional pottery designed for everyday use, inspired by color, natural beauty, and craftsmanship.
Heather is the artist behind Pottery By Five and creates her work from her studio at Raven’s Wish Gallery, while also teaching classes and accepting commissions. Her pottery can be found at several local businesses throughout southern Wisconsin.
Sophia Voelker
Born in San Jose, California, Sophia Voelker is a self-taught artist whose work is both purposeful and visually engaging, often balancing humor with calm. Using a range of mediums including acrylic on canvas, driftwood, dense air-dry clay, and drywall mud, they create pieces that reflect personal experiences and explore meaningful themes.
In addition to analog work, Sophia also creates digital art using Illustrator and Photoshop for print, social media, and collectors.
Hallie Kohn
Hallie is a self-taught oil painter from Janesville, Wisconsin. She has a home studio and paints whatever is nearby, which often tends to be foods from the kitchen and plants from the garden. Her paintings are full of expression and life by use of lively color choices and visible brushstrokes.
Though most of her professional works are done in oils, she loves to experiment by taking online classes and creating art with many different mediums and tools.
Lauren Laatsch
Lauren loves to capture the feeling of different spaces in her work through expressive brushwork and bright colors. In addition to painting, she is also currently studying graphic design at UW-Stevens Point.
Lynette Redner
Lynette Redner is a Wisconsin-based painter whose work is deeply inspired by rural life, horses, old barns, and the stories held within everyday landscapes.
A former nurse, she turned fully to art after decades of painting alongside her healthcare career, using creativity as both expression and refuge.
Working primarily in watercolor and oil, Lynette creates pieces that reflect personal experience, a love of color, and a sense of peace she hopes viewers will feel in her work.
Tom Boguszewski
Tom Boguszewski is a Wisconsin photographer whose work is inspired by travel, landscapes, historic structures, classic cars, and bridges—especially covered bridges. A longtime “picture taker,” he became serious about photography while preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip and has since developed a strong eye for turning everyday scenes into compelling images.
Based in southern Wisconsin, Tom’s photography reflects his love of the road, history, and the beauty found in both natural landscapes and rusty roadside relics.
Tom Boguszewski PhotographyAlicia Reid
A love of maps, music, and the earth is evident in the acrylic mixed media artwork of Alicia Reid. Deriving inspiration from previous lives as band director and geography professor, Reid embeds maps and music into her artwork creating abstract landscapes.
Robert “Bob” Witzack
Robert “Bob” Witzack is an oil painter whose work is deeply shaped by his 28-year career in railroad operations. After retiring in 2009, he turned to painting trains as a way to process and reflect on that chapter of his life. His recent work offers a nostalgic look back, capturing the railroads, locomotives, and trains that were part of his career with both personal history and artistic perspective.
Interested in showcasing your work at Raven’s Wish?
We’re always excited to connect with artists who value creativity, craftsmanship, and community. If you’re interested in exhibiting, teaching, or becoming more involved with the gallery, please fill out the form below. We’d love to learn more about you and your work.